Patent ID: 8810366

Claim:
A service providing device comprising: a biometric information extraction unit for extracting biometric information, which is information unique to a living body, from living body image data obtained by capturing an image of a part of the living body; an authentication request unit for transmitting the biometric information extracted by the biometric information extraction unit and collation order information, which is information relating to an order of collating at least a piece of registered biometric information registered in advance with the biometric information at a time of authentication of the biometric information, to a biometric authentication server for authenticating the biometric information based on the at least a piece of registered biometric information registered in advance, and for requesting the authentication of the extracted biometric information; a service providing unit for providing a specific service to a user according to an authentication result for the biometric information; a storage unit for storing service providing history information including identification information for identifying a user to whom a service has been provided, information relating to the type of service provided, and at least one of information relating to time at which the service has been provided and a number of times services have been provided; and an identification information extraction unit for searching through the service providing history information based on a specific condition, and for extracting at least a piece of identification information satisfying the specific condition, wherein the identification information extraction unit takes into consideration the type of service provided in the past, and wherein the authentication request unit transmits the at least a piece of identification information extracted by the identification information extraction unit to the biometric authentication server as the collation order information.