METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A DECISION ON A CARD

摘要

Method and devices for making access decisions in a secure access network ar e provided. The access decisions are made by a portable credential using data and algorithms stored on the credential. Since access decisions are made by the portable credential non-networked hosts or local hosts can be employed that do not necessarily need to be connected to a central access controller or database thereby reducing the cost of building and maintaining the secure access network.