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Claims 1-20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-19 of U.S. Patent No. 12,393,657. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because while independent Claim 1 of U.S. Patent 12,393,657 does not explicitly and user behaviometric data comprising keypress values and keyflight values corresponding to the credential input; transforming the keypress values and keyflight values into metadata of independent Claims 1, 10, 19 of the instant Application,
Costigan (US 9,301,140) teaches user behaviometric data comprising keypress values and keyflight values corresponding to the credential input; transforming the keypress values and keyflight values into metadata (Col. 6, lines 10-15, teaches behavior data includes keyboard actions (dwell, flight time))
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the invention to modify the behavioral biometrics of Claim 1 of Patent 12,393,657 to include keypress and keyflight values as taught in Costigan and the results would be predictable (i.e. keypress and keyflight values corresponding to input would be transformed into metadata)
The other independent claims are rejected for a similar rationale. The dependent claims are rejected as being dependent on a rejected claim.
US 12,393,657
Instant Application
1. A computer-implemented method for behavioral biometrics retraining on credential input provided by a user for authentication, the method comprising: receiving, at a behavioral biometrics server, and from an enterprise server based on the credential input: a successful login indication that a user has been authenticated for access on the enterprise server; metadata corresponding to the credential input; and user behaviometric data corresponding to the credential input; computing, with a behavioral scoring module, a metadata similarity score by comparing the received metadata to metadata previously stored in a user profile; computing a behaviometric similarity score by comparing the received user behaviometric data to behaviometric data previously stored in the user profile; generating and sending a request to the enterprise server to re-authenticate a user when user credentials have not changed and responsive to receiving the successful login indication and the behaviometric similarity score is less than a threshold value; resetting at least a portion of previously stored user profile data based on receiving the successful login indication and the metadata similarity score or the behaviometric similarity score being less than a threshold value; and training user profile data using the received behaviometric data based on receiving the successful login indication and the metadata similarity score being less than a threshold value.
1. A computer-implemented method for behavioral biometrics retraining on credential input provided by a user for authentication, the method comprising: receiving, at a behavioral biometrics server, and from an enterprise server based on the credential input: a successful login indication that a user has been authenticated for access on the enterprise server; and user behaviometric data comprising keypress values and keyflight values corresponding to the credential input; transforming the keypress values and keyflight values into metadata; computing, with a behavioral scoring module, a metadata similarity score by comparing the metadata to previously stored data in a user profile; generating and sending a request to the enterprise server to re-authenticate a user when user credentials have not changed and responsive to receiving the successful login indication and the metadata similarity score is less than a threshold value; resetting at least a portion of previously stored user profile data based on receiving the successful login indication and the metadata similarity score being less than a threshold value ;and training user profile data using the user behaviometric data based on receiving the successful login indication and the metadata similarity score being less than a threshold value.
Conclusion
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/HARRIS C WANG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2439
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