Patent ID: 8322605

Claim:
A method in a computing system of identifying one or more persons of interest that may reflect the identity of an individual, comprising: receiving, by the computing system, identification information associated with an individual from a portable identification device; receiving, by the computing system, environmental information, wherein the environmental information is indicative of a level of scrutiny that is to be applied to the received identification information for a location in which the portable identification device is operating; identifying, by the computing system, a plurality of candidates by matching the received identification information with candidate information associated with each of the plurality of candidates; generating, by the computing system, a candidate score for each of the plurality of identified candidates, the candidate score based on a comparison of the candidate information and the received identification information, and representing a likelihood that the identified candidate and the received identification information identify a same individual; identifying, by the computing system, one or more of the plurality of candidates as persons of interest that may reflect the identity of the individual based on the generated candidate score and the received environmental information; and causing, by the computing system, one or more of the identified persons of interest to be displayed, the number of persons of interest that are displayed being dependent on the level of scrutiny indicated by the environmental information.