Patent ID: 8473748

Claim:
A method of authenticating a user to a site resource, comprising: capturing a first biometric input from the user on an integrated first biometric reader on a mobile device, the first biometric input corresponding to a first biometric feature of the user; deriving a first set of biometric data from the captured first biometric input; transmitting the first set of biometric data to a remote authentication server from the mobile device; transmitting a secondary authentication instruction to the site resource directly from the mobile device in response to receipt of the first biometric input, capturing a second biometric input from the user on a second biometric reader connected to the site resource in response to the secondary authentication instruction, the second biometric input corresponding to a second biometric feature of the user; deriving a second set of biometric data from the captured second biometric input; transmitting the second set of biometric data to the remote authentication server from the site resource; and authenticating the user for access to the site resource based upon a concurrent and independent validation of both the first set of biometric data and the second set of biometric data against respective first and second sets of pre-enrolled biometric data for the user stored independently of each other on the remote authentication server; wherein the first set of biometric data and the second set of biometric data are transmitted to the remote authentication server for validation, the user being successfully authenticated when the first set of biometric data and the second set of biometric data were captured and transmitted within a predefined timeout period and from locations within a predefined proximity to the remote authentication server as independently specified to the remote authentication server.