Patent ID: 7802723

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a computer to authenticate a requestor using a previously-stored biometric print, said control logic comprising: computer readable program code means for causing the computer to store a plurality of records in a biometric print database, each record containing a previously-stored biometric print corresponding to an individual, and being disassociated from an identity of the individual stored in a customer database, the customer database and the biometric print database being de-linked; computer readable program code means for causing the computer to request an identifier from the requestor; computer readable program code means for causing the computer to request a biometric sample from the requestor; computer readable program code means for causing the computer to encrypt the identifier after receipt; computer readable program code means for causing the computer to match the encrypted identifier, in its encrypted form, with one of the plurality of records that corresponds to the requestor, wherein the encrypted identifier is associated with the one of the plurality of records corresponding to the requestor; and computer readable program code means for causing the computer to authenticate the requestor in response to the biometric sample matches matching the previously-stored biometric print, whereby an authenticated requestor is permitted to perform a transaction.