Patent ID: 7673149

Claim:
Method for identifying and/or authenticating a user of a mobile device including an identification module for identifying the user and/or the mobile device, in a server application on the basis of fingerprints of said user, that are recorded through haptic input means, said method comprising the steps of: the user enters commands with said haptic input means, in order to access a freely accessible part of a server, simultaneously with accessing said freely accessible part of the server, finger prints of said user are recorded through said haptic input means, when said user wishes to access a secure part of the server that requires an identification of the user, the user is identified on the basis of said fingerprints, access to said secure part of the server is granted without issuing an explicit identification request to the user if the user has been identified on the basis of said fingerprints, wherein the user is identified in that several fingerprints recorded consecutively during the same session are compared with reference fingerprints of the user, wherein Hidden Markov Models and/or neural networks are used for comparing fingerprints recorded during a session with reference fingerprints of the user.