Patent ID: 8887232
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising steps of: receiving, at a server, a request from a mobile device over a network for access to an online service over the network, the request including user identification information associated with a user of the mobile device and mobile device identification information associated with the mobile device, the user identification information not including personal verification data of the user for accessing the online service; based on the mobile device identification information contained in the request, determining whether the user is a registered user of a biometric based verification service; in response to determining that the user is a registered user of the biometric based verification service, sending a request for a sample biometric print to the mobile device over the network for presentation to the user; responsive to the request for the sample biometric print of the user, receiving over the network, at the server, from the mobile device an acquired sample biometric print of the user; determining whether the user is an authorized user of the online service based on the received sample biometric print and a template biometric print associated with the user identification information; and responsive to determining that the user is the authorized user of the online service, receiving, at the server, access information of the user for the online service stored in a record, the access information including the personal verification data of the user, such that the user is granted access to the online service via the stored access information, without any further interaction with the user.