Patent Document ID: 8218828
Application ID: 11966333

Base Claim:
1. A method of identifying persons based on biometric information, comprising: providing a cache of biometric templates, the cache storing segments of the biometric templates associated with biometric features contained in the segments; receiving a sample biometric template to be identified; dividing the sample biometric template into jobs based on the biometric features contained in the sample biometric template; comparing the jobs to the segments corresponding to the biometric features of the sample biometric template to determine candidate biometric templates associated with the segments that match the jobs; and generating a candidates list identifying the candidate biometric templates and entities related to the candidate biometric templates.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the biometric templates comprise at least one of fingerprint templates, facial templates, voice templates, iris templates, vein templates, hand geometry templates, gait templates, DNA templates and handwriting templates.