Appeal No. 2002-0l08
Application No.09/200,981
OPINION
We REVERSE.
Each of independent claims 1 and 5 requires an
authentication at both the client terminal and at the server.
Thus, an authenticator at the client terminal first compares
sensed fingerprint information with stored fingerprint
information on an IC card. If there is a match, and only if
there is a match, the client terminal produces an authentication
signal and that authentication signal is transmitted to the
server, along with the sensed fingerprint information and other
personal information. There is then another authentication
process at the server, whereby the server compare the transmitted
personal information of the card owner with personal information
stored in the server database. The server then produces its own
authentication signal if the transmitted personal information
matches the stored information in the database. The server
authentication signal permits the client terminal user access to
the server computer. Thus, access is denied if the server
determines that the sensed fingerprint information of the client
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