Patent ID: 8037316

Claim:
A method of authenticating the age of a user comprising: storing, at a client device, personal information regarding said user, said personal information including a value that is indicative of said user's age and biometric information of said user, wherein the stored biometric information is associated with the value, inputting biometric information using a mouse, identifying the value associated with the biometric information stored at the client device if the inputted biometric information matches the biometric information stored at the client device; determining, by the client device, whether to request additional information based on the result of a comparison of the value that is indicative of said user's age with a threshold; sending, by the client device, to a remotely located content provider a request for access to content restricted to users based on a cut-off associated with said value, sending, by the client device, said value to the remotely located provider of said content, and receiving said content electronically at the client device.