Patent ID: 8245052

Claim:
A token comprising: a secure memory in the token to store a biometric template for a user and data divided into a plurality of subsets; a transceiver, in the token, to receive biometric data from a terminal; an identity verifier, in the token, to determine if the received biometric data matches the stored biometric template without requiring a user to physically touch the token; the transceiver to send a pseudonym and a certified public key to the terminal, wherein the pseudonym is a linked identity that does not include information about a real-world identity of the user; a secure session creator to establish a secure communications channel between the wireless token and the terminal using the certified public key without passing the stored biometric template from the token to the terminal; and the transceiver to transmit an acknowledgement to the terminal when the received biometric data matches the stored biometric template for the user, and the transceiver to transmit a subset of the data from the memory to the terminal based on a verification level of the terminal.