Patent ID: 7711152

Claim:
A method for generating an Identification and Verification Template (IVT) for a biometric comprising the steps of: obtaining a user biometric from a biometric system with one or more servers, wherein the biometric system includes one or more biometric scanners to collect physical information from the user which is stored as bits of information on the biometric system, wherein the user biometric includes previously encoded authorization information defining a set of privileges granted to a user by an authorization officer for a security infrastructure; generating a dependency vector from the user biometric on an identification processing system with one or more servers, wherein the dependency vector is generated with a lossy transformation of information stored in the user biometric; and storing the dependency vector in an Identification and Verification Template (IVT) on a reliable storage medium external to the identification processing system, such that the IVT is bound cryptographically to the user from which the user biometric was obtained, wherein the IVT does not include complete information from the obtained user biometric but does allow for verification of the user when the IVT is accessed for the security infrastructure at a later time.