Appeal No. 2002-0l08
Application No.09/200,981
server via a network, with the server including a database that
stores personal information regarding a user ID number and a user
fingerprint. When a user desires to gain access to the client
terminal, the user inserts an IC card including relevant ID
information into an IC card reader at the client terminal and
also places his/her finger on a fingerprint sensor at the client
terminal.
An authenticator at the client terminal compares information
corresponding to the sensed fingerprint to information obtained
from the IC card. If a match occurs, an authentication signal is
produced. Then, only if there is a match, the client terminal
provides the sensed fingerprint information, the IC card
information and the authentication signal, to the server.
Once the server receives this information from the client
terminal, it is compared with stored personal information from
the database. If there is a match, then the server authorizes
use of the client terminal by the user.
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