Wearable device with user authentication interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11501589-B2
Application number	US-202117342515-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 8, 2021
Priority date	Oct 29, 2014
Publication date	Nov 15, 2022
Grant date	Nov 15, 2022

Abstract

A wearable device is used to authenticate a user into a user account at a user device of the user. In particular, the wearable device may include a sensor configured to detect whether the wearable device is worn by or is with the user. If so, the wearable device may send a signal to the user device and the user device may authenticate the user based on the signal received from the wearable device. For example, when the sensor detects that the wearable device is worn by the user, the wearable device may send a unique signal periodically, such as every five seconds or every 10 seconds. Based on whether the unique signal from the wearable device is received, the user device may authenticate the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a non-transitory memory comprising instructions; and
one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read the instructions to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
detecting, from a first device of a user, a request to initiate a process;
detecting, via the first device, a first signal received from a second device of the user;
detecting, via the first device, a second signal received from a third device of the user;
authenticating the user for the process on the first device based on the first signal and the second signal;
launching the process on the first device based on the authenticating, the first signal being received from the second device and the second signal being received from the third device by the first device of the user;
detecting, via the first device, whether at least one of the first signal received by the first device from the second device or the second signal received by the first device from the third device has ended; and
ending the process on the first device when the at least one of the first signal or the second signal has ended.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first signal includes device information corresponding to the second device, and wherein the detecting the first signal includes determining, by the first device, based on the device information contained in the first signal, that the first signal corresponds to the second device.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the process includes providing access to a first account of the user.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the first account of the user is associated with a first authentication level that is different from a second authentication level associated with a second account of the user.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first signal is unique to the second device and the second signal is unique to the third device.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise determining to launch the process based on the second signal from the third device of the user and one or more attributes of the process.

7. The system of claim 1 , the operations further comprising:
associating, by the first device, the second device and the third device with a first account of the user, wherein the process utilizes the first account of the user.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
detecting, from a first device of a user, a request to initiate a process;
detecting, via the first device, a first signal received from a second device of the user;
detecting, via the first device, a second signal received from a third device of the user;
authenticating the user for the process on the first device based on the first signal and the second signal;
launching the process on the first device based on the authenticating, the first signal being received from the second device and the second signal being received from the third device of the user;
detecting, via the first device, whether at least one of the first signal received by the first device from the second device or the second signal received by the first device from the third device has ended; and
ending the process on the first device when the at least one of the first signal or the second signal has ended.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the first signal includes device information corresponding to the second device, and wherein the detecting the first signal includes determining, by the first device, based on the device information contained in the first signal, that the first signal corresponds to the second device.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the process includes providing access to a first account of the user.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the first account of the user is associated with a first authentication level that is different from a second authentication level associated with a second account of the user.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the first signal is unique to the second device and the second signal is unique to the third device.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise determining to launch the process based on the second signal from the third device of the user and one or more attributes of the process.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
associating, by the first device, the second device and the third device with a first account of the user, wherein the process utilizes the first account of the user.

15. A method, comprising:
detecting, from a first device of a user, a request to initiate a process;
detecting, via the first device, a first signal received from a second device of the user;
detecting, via the first device, a second signal received from a third device of the user;
authenticating the user for the process on the first device based on the first signal and the second signal;
launching the process on the first device based on the authenticating, the first signal being received from the second device and the second signal being received from the third device of the user;
detecting, via the first device, whether at least one of the first signal received by the first device from the second device or the second signal received by the first device from the third device has ended; and
ending the process on the first device when the at least one of the first signal or the second signal has ended.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the first signal includes device information corresponding to the second device, and wherein the detecting the first signal includes determining, by the first device, based on the device information contained in the first signal, that the first signal corresponds to the second device.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the process includes providing access to a first account of the user.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the first account of the user is associated with a first authentication level that is different from a second authentication level associated with a second account of the user.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising determining to launch the process based on the second signal from the third device of the user and one or more attributes of the process.

20. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
associating, by the first device, the second device and the third device with a first account of the user, wherein the process utilizes the first account of the user.

Assignees

• Paypal Inc

Inventors

• Williams Megan Marie
• Hwang Michael
• Serrano Michelle

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