Security access method and apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6877097
APP PUB NO 20020138767A1
SERIAL NO

09812833

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A portable biometric device enables a designated person to unlock any one portal exclusive of other portals of a secure entity and or a secure service by choosing which of their personal biometric characteristics is presented to the portable biometric device. The portable biometric device includes a biometric sensor such that a biometric characteristic of a person for example a finger pattern is read dependent upon the person presenting the biometric characteristic to the biometric sensor. The reading is encoded in order for a processor to determine if the biometric characteristic has been predesignated for access via a predesignated one of the plurality of portals. If so, the processor selects an appropriate authorization code which is communicated by wireless transmission for unlocking the predesignated one of the portals, to the exclusion of any other of the portals. In an alternate example the processor is a central controller remote from the biometric device. The central controller is responsive to a wireless transmission of the encoded reading, from the portable biometric device, for determining which one if any of the predesignated portals is to be unlocked.

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ACTIVIDENTITY INC6623 DUMBARTON CIRCLE FREMONT CA 94555

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bouius, Derek Ottowa, CA 4 482
Hamid, Larry Ottowa, CA 11 876
Hum, Albert Ottawa, CA 4 495

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