Patent ID: 8261333
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G06F,G06K,G06Q,G07F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A biometrics authentication method, comprising the steps of: accessing a server which manages a biometrics authentication application program from a portable communication terminal having a contact-free communication unit and a mobile communication unit, via a mobile communication network; downloading said biometrics authentication application program from said server to said portable communication terminal; reading contents of an individual card which stores biometrics information to use for biometrics authentication from said individual card at a terminal device; detecting the biometrics information of a user, using a biometrics information detection unit of the terminal device after reading; verifying said biometrics information on said individual card against the biometrics information detected by said biometrics information detection unit, using the terminal device; communicating between said terminal device and said portable communication terminal to which said biometrics application program has been downloaded through said contact-free communication unit of the portable communication terminal when said verification result is satisfactory; and writing the biometrics information on said individual card to a storage area managed by said biometrics authentication application program in a memory of said portable communication terminal through said contact-free communication unit of the portable communication terminal, and wherein said downloading further comprises: a step that said portable communication terminal accesses a second server by URL (Universal Address Locater) information embedded in said biometrics authentication application program; a step that said portable communication terminal receives a specification of said storage area managed by said biometrics authentication application program from said second server; a step of that said portable communication terminal creates said storage area of said biometrics information, in said memory; and a step of displaying that said biometrics authentication application program has completed to create said storage area in said memory, on a screen of the portable communication terminal to notify a completion of a preparation to transplant a biometrics authentication function in the individual card, and wherein said writing further comprises: a step of second displaying a registration selection menu on the screen of the portable communication terminal by operating the portable communication terminal by the user when said biometric authentication application program authorizes an access of said terminal device by communicating the terminal device with the portable communication terminal to start the biometrics authentication application program; and a step of starting the writing step by designating the registration selection menu by the user.