Patent ID: 9596236
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for authenticating a user to a document escrow service, the method comprising the steps of: (a) logging a mobile device onto a mobile network, said mobile device being one of a mobile phone and a tablet computer and having a biometric sensor, a display, an input apparatus, and a non-transient memory in communication with a processor in said mobile device; (b) opening on the mobile device a signature application which allows a document to be signed; (c) reading the biometric sensor; (d) sending, via the mobile network, biometric data of the user collected from the reading of the biometric sensor via the mobile network to at least one member of an authentication group selected from the group consisting of a document execution server, a third party data base and a manufacturer application server; (e) receiving, at the mobile device, from said at least one member of the authentication group, a permission signal for indicating a match or a non-match between the biometric data collected from reading the biometric sensor on the mobile device and biometric data on the at least one member; and (f) depending upon the permission signal received, the signature application allowing the document to be signed and sent to the document execution server if there is a match or not allowing the document to be signed if there is no match, wherein the method further comprises, in response to the user opening a signature application on a second device while the signature application is open on the mobile device,