Patent ID: 9262613
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of biometrically identifying an individual anonymously, the method comprising: receiving, at a query engine in an anonymous biometric identity management sector, a biometric probe, wherein the anonymous biometric identity management sector has no knowledge of or access to any biographic, demographic, or identifying information of the individual; determining and queuing potential candidates to a queue; getting a candidate from the queue; locating an anonymous biometric authentication token associated with the candidate; retrieving a biometric template corresponding to the token from a biometric template database in the anonymous biometric identity management sector; matching the biometric probe to the biometric template to generate a score; determining if the score meets a predetermined minimum threshold; adding the anonymous biometric authentication token to a first list of probable matches if the score meets the predetermined minimum threshold; receiving by a query router at least one biometric probe, wherein receiving by a query router at least one biometric probe comprises receiving a second biometric probe; selecting a query engine; transmitting the biometric probe to the query engine; receiving the list of probable matches from the query engine; generating a second list of probable matches from the list of probable matches; transmitting the second list of probable matches to a non-anonymous sector; selecting a second query engine; transmitting the second biometric probe to the second query engine; and receiving a third list of probable matches from the second query engine, wherein the second list of probable matches is also generated from the third list of probable matches.