Patent ID: 7079007

Claim:
A method, comprising: (a) reading information from a smart card of an enrollee at an access control location; (b) transmitting the information via a network to a central processing location; (c) generating image data from a live capture of an image of a biometric of the enrollee using a live capture device at the access control location; (d) transmitting the image data via the network to the central processing location; (e) accessing the image data from the central processing location at an extraction location via the network to extract extraction information from the accessed image data; (f) transmitting the extraction information via the network to the central processing location; (g) accessing the information from the smart card from the central processing location and the extraction information from the central processing location at a matching location via the network to generate a matching result through comparing the extracted information with the information from the smart card; (h) transmitting the matching result to the central processing location via the network; and (i) performing access control at the access control location via the network based on the matching result.