Patent ID: 7660997
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for using biometrics on pervasive devices for mobile identification, said computer program product embodied on a medium readable by said pervasive device and comprising: programmable code for capturing, using a biometric input reader which is attached to or incorporated within a mobile pervasive device possessed by a user, biometric data of another being encountered by said possessor; programmable code for transmitting said captured biometric data from said mobile pervasive device to a remote server; programmable code for retrieving, by said remote server, information from a repository using said transmitted biometric data, wherein said retrieved information comprises a photograph of a party to whom said biometric data corresponds; programmable code for returning said retrieved information to said mobile pervasive device; and programmable code for identifying said encountered being using said captured biometric data by comparing said captured biometric data to previously-stored biometric data.