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Abstract

A method and apparatus employing voice identification techniques to ensure only authorized users obtain remote access to a data base or computer system. Potential users dial an access number and speak to a security system using a standard telephone. The security system compares the real time voice input to a previously recorded voice print obtained from the authorized user. If the comparison scores high enough to meet a previously established criteria, the user is identified as the authorized user who submitted the previously recorded voice print and the security system then permits the user to access the data base or computer system. The present invention transmits both the users's analog and digital information along a single line to a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN), and therefore is capable of use in currently existing and common telephone lines.

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First Claim