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 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the biometric probe and biometric template are based on hand geometry recognition, ten finger live scan, palm recognition, full hand recognition, signature recognition, ear recognition, finger vein recognition, retina recognition, voice recognition, or DNA-based recognition.