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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2007
Applicants:

Yoshiaki Isobe, Kawasaki, JP;

Masahiro Mimura, Kawasaki, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshiaki Isobe, Kawasaki, JP;

Masahiro Mimura, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A biometric authentication device has a threat of an attack of pretending to be someone else by such as forgery. The present invention supports a service provider to appropriately decide the level of such threat. A vulnerability verification serveris provided in the system, and the vulnerability of each biometric product is centrally managed. A service providersends the information that specifies the device in which a client terminalexecutes the biometric authentication to the vulnerability verification server, and receives the vulnerability information. The service providerdecides whether the service can be provided or not to the client terminalusing the vulnerability information that was received.


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