Patent ID: 8117650

Claim:
In a computing system environment, a method of providing employee cards to an employee requiring one employee card per one of many employer's agencies, comprising: sponsoring the employee for each of the many employer's agencies, the sponsoring including providing a computer-displayed form for a sponsor to enter information about the employee; determining whether biometric enrolling for the employee has already begun or been completed for at least one agency of the many employer's agencies and, if so, using the biometric enrolling for another agency of the many employer's agencies, the determining including searching various databases of the many employer's agencies for collected biometric information of the employee and determining whether the collected biometric information is valid; and based on the biometric enrolling and determining, adjudicating the employee for receipt of the employee card for the at least one agency of the many employer's agencies, wherein if the adjudicating is successful and the at least one agency has an adjudication level at least as great as the adjudication level for the another agency, concurrently authorizing the employee for receipt of a second employee card for the another agency without repeating the biometric enrolling and adjudicating, thereby provisioning the employee to the another agency without requiring multiple instances of the enrolling and the adjudicating.