Abstract: A fingerprint authentication and communication system having a fingerprint sensor and reader that converts a fingerprint into a digital profile output, a plurality of databases for storing among other things fingerprint digital profiles, user ID's, and patient related medical information, software that determines whether a recently entered fingerprint digital profile is on the approved list for authentication, and telecommunication transceiver for communicating user selected actions over telephone lines, wireless channels and the Internet. The system is preferably concealed in a handheld product for physicians and allows medical professionals to initiate and perform a plurality of actions, such as ordering multiple prescriptions and lab tests, with a fingerprint induced command.

Abstract: Software that manages and controls auxiliary browsers based on user inputs, related information and/or links on the Internet, and more particularly, a browser plug-in software that accesses correlating links or websites based on user inputs, manages and controls the location of auxiliary browsers, such as browsers that display banner advertisements on a host website, links to secondary Internet addresses available in the banner browser, and provides simultaneous viewing of information at the secondary Internet address and information related to the banner and its links in the auxiliary browser.