[Infowarrior] - Apple Patents Security Invention That Recognizes Users Heartbeat...

[Richard Forno]

This is interesting from a behavioural pattern-matching perspective.    -rick

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week revealed a patent application from Apple entitled "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device." The security-centric invention describes methods to identify users through a picture, the sound of their voice, or even their unique heartbeat.

"The photograph, recording, or heartbeat can be compared, respectively, to a photograph, recording or heartbeat of authorized users of the electronic device to determine whether they match," the application reads. "If they do not match, the current user can be detected as an unauthorized user."

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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/19/future_iphones_ipads_could_recognize_adjust_for_individual_users.html