SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE USER IDENTIFICATION WITH BLUETOOTH ENABLED TRANSCEIVER AND BIOMETRIC SENSOR IMPLEMENTED IN A HANDHELD COMPUTER

摘要

A system and method for secure biometric identification of the present invention. In a most general implementation, the inventive system includes a processor, a biometric sensor operationally coupled to the processor, and a wireless transmitter operationally coupled to the sensor. In the illustrative embodiment, the sensor is a fingerprint sensor and the transmitter is a wireless, Bluetooth enabled transceiver. The sensor and the transceiver are disposed on first and second expansion cards adapted to engaged an expansion slot of a Personal Digital Assistant.