Patent Document ID: 8887259
Application ID: 13633355

Base Claim:
1. A method of biometrically verifying identification of an individual anonymously, the method comprising: receiving, at a query engine in an anonymous biometric identity management sector, a biometric probe from the individual and a token associated with the individual, wherein the anonymous biometric identity management sector has no knowledge of or access to any biographic, demographic, or identifying information of the individual; retrieving, at the query engine, a biometric template corresponding to the token, wherein the biometric template is retrieved from a template database in the anonymous biometric identity management sector; comparing the biometric probe to the biometric template; computing a score based on the comparing; wherein the token is a unique identifier which carries no demographic or biographic information of the individual, and further comprising receiving by a query router at least one biometric probe and a token; selecting a query engine; transmitting the biometric probe to the query engine; receiving the score from the query engine; determining a verification result from the score; and transmitting the verification result to a non-anonymous biometric identity management sector.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the biometric probe and biometric template are based on fingerprint recognition.