Patent ID: 8811959
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A smart card comprising: a mass storage memory for storing biometric information of a user and private data; a radio including Bluetooth radio circuit blocks; an integrated circuit processor coupled to the mass storage memory and to the radio; a battery connected to the integrated circuit processor, the mass storage memory and the radio; a base layer upon which the mass storage memory, the radio, the processor, and the battery are disposed; a top layer enclosing the mass storage memory, the radio, the processor, and the battery to thereby define a card; and wherein: the smart card is configured to load an application associated with an application identification signal received from a host device into the integrated circuit processor, the host device having host software to support an authorized application; the smart card is configured to enable an user to perform an operation in which the user authenticates himself to the smart card by providing biometric information to the smart card; and when the user of the smart card wishes to invoke an application for the private data, biometric information about the user is provided to the host device in communication with the smart card enabling the smart card to authenticate the user as an authorized user of the private data, and in response to that authentication provide the private data to the application.