Patent ID: 8402040

Claim:
A method for performing identity verification of an individual, the method comprising: receiving an identification document from the individual; receiving an indication of an environment or setting in which the identity verification is to be performed; reading machine readable identification features of the identification document; accessing a plurality of different data sources based on the machine readable identification features of the identification document and based on the environment or setting in which the identity verification is to be performed; receiving geographic data and biographic data accessed from the plurality of different data sources; selecting an authentication methodology to perform an analysis of the identification document and the received data based on one or more inferences made based on the environment or setting in which the identity verification is to be performed; using the selected authentication methodology to analyze the identification document and the received data to generate a result providing an overridable determination of the individual's identity; combining validation scores of the analysis performed by the authentication methodology based on the plurality of different data sources to improve the confidence level of the result; and automatically representing the result of analyzing the identification document and the received data with one or more indicators.