Patent ID: 7748029

Claim:
A computer program product comprising processor-executable instructions stored in a non-transitory machine-readable medium for use in automating verification of a purported identity of an individual authentication subject, the executable instructions comprising: (a) a user interface for receiving a plurality of identifying items representing the purported identity of the subject; (b) a linking component that, for each received identification item, identifies a pair-wise link to each other identification item; (c) a data source interface component for querying a plurality of separate, independent data sources to obtain a response from each of them, wherein the query to each data source presents a corresponding linked pair of the identifying items for verification; (d) the data source interface component further arranged to receive in response from each data source a respective confidence level corresponding to each pair-wise association among the identifying items; and (e) a results compiler for combining the received confidence levels into an overall authentication result regarding the purported identity of the individual authentication subject.