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System, apparatus and method for controlling access

  • US 6,581,161 B1
  • Filed: 03/02/1999
  • Issued: 06/17/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for controlling access to a facility, comprising:

  • a portable communicating means, a server means, and one or more access control devices in communication across a network;

    data storage means available to said server means for storing access control data;

    said server means being adapted to receive access requests identifying a user of said portable communicating means and including;

    generating means within said server means for generating access criteria from said access control data according to said user'"'"'s identity; and

    communicating means for communicating said access criteria to at least one of said access control means and said portable communicating means;

    wherein said access control means is adapted to permit access responsive to said user satisfying said access criteria; and

    wherein said access control means includes a bio-metric security system and said access criteria include bio-metric data associated with said user and said communicating means communicates said bio-metric data from said server means to one or more access control means.

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