Patent ID: 8627095

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a biometric authentication unit that performs authentication processing of received biometric information associated with one input instance of a particular biometric type, the authentication processing being based on previously registered biometric information of the particular biometric type, the received biometric information being information unique to a living body, a notification being provided based on a determination that the received biometric information is successfully authenticated; and a login processing unit that performs login processing and completes the login processing based on user specification information for specifying user information used for the login processing, the login processing including determining whether the successfully authenticated biometric information corresponds to a plurality of user accounts each corresponding to pieces of user information, when the login processing unit determines that the successfully authenticated biometric information does not correspond to the plurality of user accounts, the login processing unit automatically logs in and completes the login processing, and when the login processing unit determines that the successfully authenticated biometric information does correspond to the plurality of user accounts, the login processing unit automatically logs in to a default account of the plurality of user accounts and completes the login processing.