Patent Document ID: 8676046
Application ID: 13685841
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for handling forensic-quality fingerprinting data, the method comprising: receiving a passcode provided by a user; verifying the passcode to determine whether the user is an authorized user; and when the user is an authorized user, generating a decryption key, and using the decryption key to decrypt at least some of an encrypted set of fingerprint template vector files and at least some of an encrypted set of subject records, without decrypting an encrypted set of fingerprint image records, wherein: each of the set of fingerprint image records comprises image data representing at least one fingerprint of a subject; each of the set of fingerprint template vector files is associated with an encrypted fingerprint image record and is generated as a function of the associated encrypted fingerprint image record to at least partially characterize image data of the associated encrypted fingerprint image record; and each of the set of subject records is associated with an encrypted fingerprint image record and comprises data characterizing the subject of the associated encrypted fingerprint image record.