US Patent 10127366 Systems and methods for paired device authentication

A pair of remote computing devices for authenticating a user of one of the pair of remote computing devices is provided. The pair of remote computing devices includes a first computing device and a second computing device. The first computing device communicates with a host computing device and stores sample biometric data associated with the user. The first computing device receives an authentication request message for authenticating the user, processes the authentication request message, and transmits a biometric request message to the second computing device. The first computing device also receives captured biometric data from the second computing device, electronically compares the captured biometric data to the sample biometric data, and transmits an authentication response message to the host computing device based upon the comparison of the captured biometric data to the sample biometric data. The authentication response message indicates whether the captured biometric data matched the sample biometric data.