Patent ID: 8306970

Claim:
A method for positively identifying an individual comprising: providing on a computer a name of an individual to be uniquely identified within a population to the exclusion of all others within said population; providing on said computer databases of at least two different and unique sources of data that contain data pertaining to said population; said computer retrieving data from the at least two different and unique data sources, normalizing the retrieved data into a standardized and common format, and performing a data scrubbing operation on the normalized data to provide scrubbed, normalized data; providing access to at least one individual search data source on said computer; said computer comparing data from said databases of at least two different and unique sources of data against each other based on said name of said individual to provide a collection of preliminary suspects; said computer searching said at least one individual search data source for additional data relating to said collection of preliminary suspects for locating at least one potential match from the collection of preliminary suspects; said computer verifying and validating said at least one potential match; said computer reconciling said at least one potential match with data from at least one of the databases of said different and unique data sources for locating at least a portion of a unique identifier that may be associated with said individual that is to be uniquely identified; comparing on said computer said at least one potential match and said at least portion of the unique identifier with other data records within said at least one individual search data source for locating a complete unique identifier that may be associated with said individual that is to be uniquely identified; and said computer determining whether said complete unique identifier uniquely identifies said individual to the exclusion of all others within said population.