Patent ID: 8355527
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising the steps of: a) providing a requester with a computer-readable program for a digital mobile device equipped with a built-in digital photo camera, wherein said computer-readable program controls said digital photo camera and prevents alterations to an image taken with said digital photo camera on said digital mobile device, b) a server computer receiving from said digital mobile device a digital copy of an identification document of said requester, taken by said requester with said digital photo camera on said digital mobile device, wherein said identification document contains a requester's photograph, wherein said receiving is achieved by a first computer-readable code on said server computer and by a second computer-readable code on said digital mobile device, and wherein said server computer and said digital mobile device are communicatively connected via a computer network, c) obtaining one or more images from one or more computer network information sources, wherein said one or more images are selected from a plurality of all images in said one or more computer network information sources as a function of a personal information of said requester, and d) calculating a statistical rating of a likelihood that said requester's photograph and said one or more images obtained from said one or more computer network information sources depict the same person.