Appeal No. 2004-0960
Application No. 09/750,394
address only the independent claims, i.e., claims 1, 13 and 17.
Claims 1 and 13
Claim 1 requires a direct tentative identifier device for
reading an ID token of a presenting individual and for sending an
ID code related to the ID token to a decision-making computer,
and a biometric reader connected to the decision-making computer
to enable comparing live biometric data read from the presenting
individual with biometric data maintained on a secure computer
system. Claim 13 requires a door control computer for deciding
whether an individual’s live biometric reading is a match to a
biometric data file which can be related to the individual and is
maintained on a computer system in an enrollment authority.
Piosenka teaches that systems were known for sending
biometric data obtained at remote access points to a central
repository for comparison to previously stored biometric data
(col. 1, line 55 - col. 2, line 9). Such systems are
disadvantageous, Piosenka teaches, in that they require
maintaining an online large database and communicating with the
remote sites for each access, which is very expensive and
involves intolerable access delays during periods of peak
transactions, and suffer service outages if the central site or
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