Systems and methods for identifying an individual
The present application relates to systems and methods using biometric data of an individual for identifying the individual and/or verifying the identity of an individual. These systems and methods are useful for, amongst many applications, more secure identification of high-risk individuals attempting to gain access to an entity, transport, information, location, security organization, law enforcement organization, transaction, services, authorized status, and/or funds.
1. A method of identifying an individual comprising the steps of:
a) retrieving individualized identification information comprising a plurality of partial individualized identification hashes of the individual each partial identification hash comprising individualized biometric data of a first class and a partial individualized biometric data of a second class;
b) retrieving the plurality of partial individualized identification hashes;
c) accessing at least one interrogation database comprising a plurality of interrogation biometric data of the second class;
d) hashing each of the plurality of interrogation biometric data of the second class together with the individualized biometric data of the first class to form a plurality of interrogation database identification hashes;
e) comparing each of the plurality, of interrogation database identification hashes with the plurality of partial individualized identification hashes; and
f) reporting whether a match is identified.
2. A method of identifying an individual comprising the steps of:
a) forming a plurality of partial interrogation database identification hashes comprising the individualized biometric data of the first class and each of a plurality of partial interrogation database biometric data of the second class;
b) retrieving an individualized biometric data of the first class;
c) accessing at least one interrogation database comprising a plurality of interrogation biometric data of the second class;
d) hashing each of the plurality of interrogation biometric data of the second class together with the individualized biometric data of the first class to form a plurality of interrogation database identification hashes;
e) reporting whether a match of any of the plurality of database identification hashes to the individualized identification hash is identified.
3. The method of claim 2 further comprising the steps of:
a) comparing each of the plurality of the partial individualized identification hashes to each of the plurality of the partial interrogation database hashes; and
b) reporting whether a match is identified.