Patent ID: 6532459
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A data access and authorization system for finding, checking, and maintaining personal information in diverse external databases on a data communications network, comprisinga data communication network; a plurality of diverse external databases of multiple owners and multiple access protocols connected to the data communication network, at least some of which external databases contain personal identification data and other privileged data for multiple respective users; a data access terminal connected to the data communication network; a computer system connected to the network, the computer system having an interactive user interface connected to the terminal; a security protocol algorithm in the computer system for identifying a given user of the interactive terminal; an external database table in the computer system that lists at least some of the external databases along with information on ownership, access protocol, security protocol, search protocol, data update procedure, and billing procedure for each listed database; a table maintenance algorithm in the computer system that maintains the external database table by searching for personal identification data of the given user in a selected one or more of the external databases in the table, and interactively confirming a match of the personal identification data with the given user to a threshold score of certainty for the selected one or more of the external databases; a table update algorithm in the computer system that searches the network for external databases containing personal identification data of the given user, interactively confirms a match of the personal identification data with the given user to a threshold score of certainty, and adds entries for external databases so confirmed to the table; a personal information maintenance algorithm in the computer system with means for updating personal identification data and other personal information in a selected one or more of the external databases using the external database table for access, authorization, search, and update procedures.