MECARD

Encoded smart cards containing programming used to store information in electronic format for data storage and access control; magnetic encoded card readers; and computer software in the field of network identification and authentication, namely, for outside access to a building, a network, a database, personal data, and data encryption and decryption, identification of persons by stored data on smart cards, password for computer programs and computer files, and security for communications between network users and public networks such as the global computer network; a computer system that incorporates a smart card, a smart card reader and the software to insure the security of businesses, employees and computer networks, and to provide network security and access control, a data repository for emergency medical information and personnel data, systems integrity, and identification with digital photo images and fingerprints encoded in the smart card