US Patent 11176233 Method and device for identity authentication

The present disclosure discloses a method and device for identity authentication. One example method includes retrieving stored fingerprint information for a user including a plurality of recorded fingerprints for the user, each recorded fingerprint associated with a different finger of the user; selecting a subset of the recorded fingerprints to be used to authenticate the user; prompting the user to provide fingerprint information corresponding to each finger associated with a recorded fingerprint in the selected subset; in response to prompting the user, receiving user-provided fingerprint information from the user; matching the user-provided fingerprint information against the selected subset of the recorded fingerprints; and determining that an identity authentication of the user succeeds when the user-provided fingerprint information matches the selected subset of the recorded fingerprints.