Patent ID: 8041743

Claim:
A semantically enhanced identity management system providing a network semantic graph comprising concept instances and relations between the concept instances, the system comprising: a plurality of semantic servers in communication with each other and with distributed sources, wherein each of the plurality of semantic servers comprises: a first interface for receiving biometric results from a biometric matching system that processes biometric data, wherein the biometric results include biometric data for at least one person; a second interface for receiving semantic data including semantically descriptive annotations from the distributed sources and other ones of the plurality of semantic servers; and a processor programmed to: process the semantic data based on the semantically descriptive annotations of the data to form a local semantic graph that associates the concept instances with each other using the relations; integrate the biometric results with the local semantic graph; and use the information stored in the local semantic graph to identify a person; and memory for storing the local semantic graph; wherein each local semantic graph of each of the plurality of semantic servers comprises a portion of the network semantic graph distributed across the plurality of semantic servers.