Patent ID: 7254619

Claim:
An individual authentication information output apparatus connectable to a terminal apparatus and a plurality of information processing systems through a network, the terminal apparatus receives from a user an individual authentication information comprising a user biometric information corresponding to a unique first human characteristic of the user, and sends the individual authentication information to the individual authentication information output apparatus through the network, the individual authentication information output apparatus comprising: a section for receiving the user biometric information from the terminal apparatus; and a database access section operative to access, based on the received user biometric information, a database for managing a plurality of such user biometric information and a plurality of pseudo biometric information, each of the plurality of pseudo biometric information corresponding to a unique second human characteristic associated with the user and different from the first human characteristic, wherein each of the plurality of user biometric information is associated in the database with a respective one of the plurality of pseudo biometric information, said database access section operative to read the pseudo biometric information associated with the received user biometric information and to output the read pseudo biometric information as the individual authentication information to an information processing system selected among the plurality of information processing systems through the network.