Patent ID: 6871230
Filing Date: 2005-03-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A personal identification system for an information processing system including two or more local computers and a remote computer having common resources which can be accessed by each of the local computers, comprising: a personal verification system as common equipment for the local computers, including a database for storing passwords of each authorized user and physical characteristics data corresponding to each password, wherein each of the local computers is provided with a physical characteristics scanning/sending means for scanning physical characteristics of a user when the user makes a request to one of the local computers for the use of the common resources of the remote computer, the physical characteristics scanning/sending means generating characteristics data based on the scanned physical characteristics of the user, and, the physical characteristics scanning/sending means sending the characteristics data to the personal verification system, and wherein the personal verification system which receives the characteristics data from the physical characteristics scanning/sending means of the one of the local computers, searches the database for a password using the received characteristics data as a key, and sends the searched password to the one of the local computers, and wherein the one of the local computers, which receives the password from the personal verification system, sends the received password to the remote computer for user identification, and wherein the personal verification system includes a computer that searches the database and that sends the searched password to the one of the local computers, the computer of the personal verification system being separate and distinct from the remote computer.