Patent ID: 7929951

Claim:
A system for comparing user profiles to determine users having matching interests and biometrically verifying the identity and information of the matching users to each other as part of a comparison of user profile information search, comprising: a storage device comprising a user profile database comprising user profile information for a plurality of users; a user device associated with said storage device, said user device comprising a user interface for receiving user profile information from the user; a biometric verification interface for biometrically verifying each user to the user's associated profile information stored in said user profile database; and a processing element in communication with said user interface, biometric interface, and storage device, wherein said processing element: receives user profile information input by each user via said user interface including user preferences regarding other users; stores the user profile information for each user in the user profile database, wherein one or more of the user profile information for each user is biometrically associated with a respective third party institution and can be verified by the third party institution, wherein the user profile information associated with third party institutions is stored in both the user profile database and a third party database associated with the respective third party institution, where the user profile database and the third party database associated with the third party institution are separate databases; performs a user profile information pre-verification for each user by contacting third party institutions associated with the respective user profile information to verify the user profile information stored in the user profile database, such that the user profile information is verified by the third party institution prior to use; compares user preferences for each user stored in the user's profile information with the user preferences of the other of the plurality of users; returns only those user profiles for users having matching user preferences, so that only users are indicated in the comparison that have common interests; and allows via the user interface each of the users that were indicated as matching to access user profile information stored in the user profile database for the other user, including access to the user profile information verified by the third party institution prior to use, such that mutual access by the users to the other user's verified user profile information is provided; wherein the system biometrically links all users to each other and to their respective institutions so that their associated biometrically verified information is permitted to be searched by others to find the best mutual matches for any enquiring user; and wherein the biometrically linking comprises storing a user's biometric on the user's own device and on other users' devices and requiring a user to have their biometric scanned by and verified by the other user's device to protect against tampering.