| 摘要 |
A user authentication apparatus includes: means for storing biometric authentication information obtained from a user; means for communicating with a electronic equipment, which authenticates the user with the user's biometric authentication information; means for sending, in response to a first inquiry from the electronic equipment, store location definition information, which defines store locations of various output information; and output means for outputting, in response to a read request sent from the electronic equipment to designate a store location defined by the store location definition information, the output information along with identification information which indicates the type of the output information. The output means outputs, to an external device, as one of the output information, along with identification information, authentication information store location information, which describes in a given format where authentication information including the biometric authentication information is stored.
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