Patent ID: 8024359

Claim:
An apparatus accessing electronic data of a child of interest, comprising: a receiver receiving information regarding an image of the child of interest, wherein the image is transmitted from an image capture device associated with a requesting user; a database storing information regarding a plurality of images and information regarding a plurality of children, and further wherein at least one image is associated with each child of the plurality of children; a processor processing information regarding the image and comparing the information regarding the image to the information regarding a plurality of images, wherein the processor determines whether the image matches an image of a child of the plurality of children and, if the image matches an image of a child of the plurality of children, then the processor generates a message; and a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the message to a communication device associated with the child of interest, wherein the message contains a first request for permission to provide access to information regarding the child of interest to the requesting user, and wherein the receiver receives a second request from the communication device associated with the child of interest for permission to provide access to information regarding the requesting user in response to receiving the first request, and further wherein the apparatus receives a response to the message transmitted from the communication device and determines whether the response contains information indicating that permission to allow the requesting user to access the information regarding the child of interest has been granted, wherein permission to allow the requesting user to access the information regarding the child of interest is granted if the communication device receives access to the information regarding the requesting user, and, if permission to allow the requesting user to access the information regarding the child of interest is granted, then the apparatus transmits information regarding the child of interest to the image capture device.