Patent ID: 9563760
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of using biometric authentication to regulate access to content sources via a client device comprising: capturing, in the client device, biometric data associated with a user of the client device, the biometric data identifying the user; storing the biometric data associated with the user in the client device; identifying respective authentication information associated with the user by two or more content sources, the authentication information used by the two or more content sources to identify the user; storing the authentication information and an association between the authentication information and each content source in the client device based at least in part on the biometric data associated with the user; receiving a selection of a content source from among the two or more content sources; receiving a request to access content from the content source; responsive to the request, capturing biometric data associated with a user of the client device at a time when the request was received; determining whether the captured biometric data matches the biometric data associated with the user; responsive to determining the captured biometric data matches the biometric data associated with the user, retrieving the authentication information associated with the user by the content source from the client device; communicating the authentication information associated with the user by the content source to the content source; and presenting content received from the content source to the user via the client device.