Patent ID: 8799666

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a web server computing device configured to provide to a user computing device, at least one of a biometric browser extension and a biometric browser plug-in as part of a biometric service browser application for execution on a user computing device; the at least one of the biometric browser extension and the biometric browser plug-in configured to detect a visit by the user computing device to a web site produced by the web server computing device, with which the user computing device has previously been enrolled; the at least one of the biometric browser extension and the biometric browser plug-in configured to prompt the user to provide biometric identification of the user through a biometric service executing on the user computing device and interfacing the one of the biometric browser extension and the biometric browser plug-in with a biometric sensor associated with the user computing device; the at least one of the biometric browser extension and the biometric browser plug-in configured to receive from the biometric service an authentication token and user identification produced by the biometric sensor responsive to a validation of biometric identification of the user by the biometric sensor and responsive to a validation by the biometric service of a digital signature of the one of the biometric browser extension and the biometric browser plug-in received by the biometric service from the one of the biometric browser extension and the biometric browser plug-in; the web server computing device configured to receive from the at least one of the biometric browser extension and the biometric browser plug in, the authentication token.