US Patent Issued to Aurora Wireless Technologies on Jan. 25 for "Method and Apparatus for Reducing On-Line Fraud Using Personal Digital Identification" (Florida, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- United States Patent no. 7,877,611, issued on Jan. 25, was assigned to Aurora Wireless Technologies Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and Apparatus for Reducing On-Line Fraud Using Personal Digital Identification" was invented by Luz Maria Camacho (Orlando, Fla.), Roger D. Pirkey (Hudson, Fla.) and Michael L. Hankinson (Pine, Colo.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed Personal Digital Identification (PDI) system and architecture rapidly verifies individuals using biometric data or other tokens prior to approving a transaction and/or granting access to an on-line services and other network services. The architecture that includes a server that has access to template data required to authenticate individuals, and the processing capacity to route authenticated requests to the appropriate downstream entity (Internet Service Provider, Credit Card Company, etc.). The server is connected to requesting users by various network methods to form a client/server architecture. The server and clients each contain discrete subsystems, which provide various levels of authentication services to users of the system."

The patent was filed on March 7, 2001, under Application No. 09/801,468.

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