Patent ID: 9129135
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of control of electronic applications, the method comprising: receiving, at a central server computer, data identifying two or more authorities having different levels of access authority for granting a first user access to an electronic application, the two or more authorities belonging to persons other than the first user, and each of the different levels of access authority having a different usage rate or amount for dispensing virtual credits for electronic application usage to the first user; receiving, at the central server computer, a request from the first user to initiate an electronic application; identifying, at the central server computer, one of the authorities as having current electronic application access authority for the first user; verifying, by the central server computer, a sufficient quantity of virtual credits are present to initiate the electronic application according to the identified access authority and virtual credits available to the first user; receiving, at the central server computer, biometric data from the first user; comparing, by the central server computer, the received biometric data with previously stored biometric data for the first user to verify the identity of the first user; providing, by the central server computer, the first user access to the electronic application when the first user has a sufficient quantity of virtual credits and the first user identity is verified; and locking, by the central server computer, the first user from access to the electronic application when the virtual credits are below a threshold level or the first user identity is not verified.