Method and system to authenticate an object

• US 20060074986A1
• Filed: 08/19/2005
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Idemia Identity & Security USA, LLC (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Viisage Technology, Inc. (Advent International Corporation)
• Inventors: Lazzouni, Mohamed, Shteyman, Leonid Y., Kuzeja, Thomas M., Kottas, James A., Bortolussi, Jay F., Mallalieu, Mark R., Zikas-Bernard, Gida R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,402,040 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/70 Multimodal biometrics, e.g. combining information from different biometric modalities
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition

Abstract

The system and methods disclosed herein validate the authenticity of a document and an individual'"'"'s claimed identity. The system and method use a validation facility that is configurable to compare and match characteristics of biometric and non-biometric data presented by an individual with biometric and non-biometric data received from a request to a database or file system holding such information. The determination on the matching characteristics of the data can occur in completely automated fashion without intervention from the user, but user intervention is also possible allowing the user to review and override certain data discrepancies. The validation facility provides a user interface for use by a user to review a determination on the data analysis and instruct the validation facility to override that determination if the user determines the cause of the identity verification failure is within an acceptable criterion.

Claims

1. ) A method for performing identity verification of an individual, the method comprising the steps of

receiving data from a plurality of data sources;

analyzing the received data to verify the identity of the individual; and

automatically representing a result of analyzing the received data with one or more indicators

2. ) The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of determining if the data received from one of the plurality of data sources is valid before analyzing the received data to verify the identity of the individual.

3. ) The method of claim 2, wherein the data received from the plurality of data sources includes biometric data.

4. ) The method of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of data sources includes a document associated with the individual.

5. ) The method of claim 2, wherein the data received from the plurality of data sources include one or more of demographic data, biographic data, transaction data, itinerary data, watchlist data for identifying undesirable individuals, data from data warehouses, or data from data services.

6. ) The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of determining if the document is a genuine document, a counterfeit document, or a tampered document.

7. ) The method of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of data sources includes the individual.

8. ) The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of constructing a query to extract the data from one of the plurality of data sources.

9. ) A method for authenticating an individual, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving personal information from the individual,

querying a first database holding biometric related information;

querying a second database holding non-biometric information; and

determining authenticity of the individual based on an analysis of the personal information, a response to the query of the first database, and a response to the query of the second database.

10. ) The method of claim 9, further comprising the steps of,

querying a third database holding non-biometric information;

and

determining authenticity of the individual based on an analysis of the personal information, a response to the query of the first database, a response to the query of the second database, and a response to the query of the third database.

11. ) The method of claim 9, wherein the step of determining authenticity of the individual is performed in real-time fashion.

12. ) The method of claim 9, wherein the step of determining authenticity of the individual is performed in batch fashion.

13. ) The method of claim 9, wherein the analysis of the personal information, a response to the query of the first database, and a response to the query of the second database identifies for each of a plurality of data categories a result having at least two states.

14. ) The method of claim 9, wherein the analysis of the personal information, a response to the query of the first database, and a response to the query of the second database includes an analysis of information received from the individual, information from the first database, and information from the second database.

15. ) The method of claim 13, wherein for each of the plurality of data categories the analysis determines a validation confidence score, the validation confidence score representing a level of certainty that the data associated with a data category is true.

16. ) The method of claim 9, wherein the analysis of the personal information, the response to the query of the first database, and the response to the query of the second database includes a rule based analysis of at least one of the personal information, the response to the query of the first database or the response to the query of the second database, wherein the rule based analysis has access to a set of rules that define acceptable data conditions, unacceptable data conditions, and data conditions that require taking an action to notify a party interested in the authenticity the individual.

17. ) A system for validating one or more objects, the system comprises;

a first computational device to receive information from the one or more objects, the information received includes biometric data and non-biometric data;

a validation facility to validate the information received from the one or more objects, the validation facility configured to analyze the information received from the one or more objects and provide a plurality of outputs representing a determination on the validity of the one or more objects, each of the plurality of outputs having at least two states.

18. ) The system of claim 17, further comprising an interface configured to receive a request for data from the validation facility and forward the request in a format understandable by a data source identified in the request.

19. ) The system of claim 17, wherein the validation facility is extensible to add or remove components to add or remove functionality from the validation facility.

20. ) The system of claim 17, further comprising a storage device holding business rules that define what data conditions the validation facility should accept, what data conditions the validation facility should reject, and what data conditions the validation facility should take an action on to notify a party interested in validating the one or more objects.

21. ) The system of claim 17, further comprising an image acquisition apparatus.

22. ) The system of claim 17, further comprising a document reader apparatus.

23. ) The system of claim 17, wherein the one or more objects comprise an individual.

24. ) The system of claim 17, further comprising a second computational device to receive information from the one or more objects, the information received includes biometric and non-biometric data.

25. ) The system of claim 24, wherein the second computational device comprises a server and the second computational device manages operation of the validation facility.

26. ) The system of claim 17, further comprising a user interface configured to allow a user to interact with the validation facility.

27. ) The system of claim 26, wherein the user interface is extensible to add or remove components to add or remove features that allow the user to interact with the validation facility.

28. ) The system of claim 26, wherein the user interface is configurable to enable communication between the user and the validation facility.

29. ) The system of claim 17, wherein the validation facility is configurable for a particular user preference.

30. ) A method for authenticating an individual, the method comprising the steps of,

receiving personal information of an individual;

receiving biometric information of the individual;

requesting an analysis of the personal information and the biometric related information to authenticate the individual; and

receiving a result of the analysis, the result providing a determination on the authenticity of the individual.

31. ) The method of claim 30 further comprising the steps of,

receiving a document from the individual, the document providing identity information of the individual, and

determining if the document is a valid document.

32. ) The method of claim 30, further comprising the step of displaying a representation of the result of the analysis.

33. ) The method of claim 30, wherein the result has two or more states.

34. ) The method of claim 30, wherein the analysis is performed on a plurality of data categories.

35. ) The method of claim 34, wherein the plurality of data categories are selected from at least one of biometric data, transaction data, itinerary data, biographic data, demographic data, or watchlist data for identifying undesirable individuals.

36. ) The method of claim 34, wherein the analysis provides the result for each of the plurality data categories.

37. ) The method of claim 30, further comprising the step of providing an audio representation of the result.

38. ) The method of claim 30, further comprising the step of saving at least one of the analyses or the result in a data structure.

39. ) The method of claim 30, further comprising the step of creating a profile for the individual.

40. ) The method of claim 39, wherein the profile comprises an identity profile for the individual indicating whether the individual is entitled to the identity.

41. ) A computer readable medium holding computer readable instructions for performing a method to verify a characteristic of an individual, the method comprising the steps of

receiving data from a plurality of data sources;

analyzing the received data to verify the identity of the individual; and

automatically representing a result of analyzing the received data with one or more indicators

42. ) The medium of claim 41, further comprising the step of determining if the data received from one of the plurality of data sources is valid before analyzing the received data to verify the identity of the individual.

43. ) The medium of claim 42, wherein the data received from the plurality of data sources includes biometric data.

44. ) The medium of claim 41, wherein one of the plurality of data sources includes a document associated with the individual.

45. ) The medium of claim 42, wherein the data received from the plurality of data sources include one or more of demographic data, biographic data, transaction data, itinerary data, watchlist data for identifying undesirable individuals, data from data warehouses, and data from data services.

46. ) The medium of claim 44, further comprising the step of determining if the document is a genuine document, a counterfeit document, or a tampered document.

47. ) The medium of claim 41, wherein one of the plurality of data sources includes the individual.

48. ) The medium of claim 41 further comprising the step of constructing a query to extract the data from one of the plurality of data sources.

49. ) A computer readable medium holding computer executable instructions for performing a method for authenticating an individual, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving personal information from the individual,

querying a first database holding biometric related information;

querying a second database holding non-biometric information; and

determining authenticity of the individual based on analysis of the personal information, a response to the query of the first database, and a response to the query of the second database.

50. ) The medium of claim 49, further comprising the steps of:

querying a third database holding non-biometric information; and

determining authenticity of the individual based on analysis of the personal information, a response to the query of the first database, a response to the query of the second database, and a response to the query of the third database.

51. ) The medium of claim 49, wherein the step of determining authenticity of the individual is performed in real-time fashion.

52. ) The medium of claim 49, wherein the step of determining authenticity of the individual is performed in batch fashion.

53. ) The medium of claim 49, wherein the analysis of the personal information, a response to the query of the first database, and a response to the query of the second database identifies for each of a plurality of data categories a result having at least two states.

54. ) The medium of claim 49, wherein the analysis of the personal information, a response to the query of the first database, and a response to the query of the second database includes an analysis of information received from the individual, information from the first database, and information from the second database.

55. ) The medium of claim 49, wherein for each of the plurality of data categories the analysis determines a validation confidence score, the validation confidence score representing a level of certainty that the data associated with a data category is true.

56. ) The medium of claim 49, wherein the analysis of the personal information, the response to the query of the first database, and the response to the query of the second database includes a rule based analysis of at least one of the personal information, the response to the query of the first database or the response to the query of the second database, wherein the rule based analysis has access to a set of rules that define acceptable data conditions, unacceptable data conditions, and data conditions that require taking an action to notify a party interested in the authenticity the individual.

57. ) A computer readable medium holding computer executable instructions for performing a method in a proofing system to authenticate an individual, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving personal information of an individual;

receiving biometric information of the individual;

requesting an analysis of the personal information and the biometric related information to authenticate the individual; and

receiving a result of the analysis, the result providing a determination on the authenticity of the individual.

58. ) The medium of claim 57 further comprising the steps of:

receiving a document from the individual, the document providing identity information of the individual, and

determining if the document is a valid document.

59. ) The medium of claim 57, further comprising the step of displaying a representation of the result of the analysis.

60. ) The medium of claim 57, wherein the result has two or more states.

61. ) The medium of claim 57, wherein the analysis is performed on a plurality of data categories.

62. ) The medium of claim 61, wherein the plurality of data categories are selected from at least one of biometric data, transaction data, itinerary data, biographic data, demographic data, or watchlist data for identifying undesirable individuals.

63. ) The medium of claim 61, wherein the analysis provides the result for each of the plurality data categories.

64. ) The medium of claim 57, further comprising the step of providing an audio representation of the result.

65. ) The medium of claim 57, further comprising the steps of saving at least one of the analyses or the result in a data structure.

66. ) The medium of claim 57, further comprising the step of creating a profile for the individual.

67. ) The medium of claim 66, wherein the profile comprises an identity profile for the individual indicating whether the individual is entitled to the identity.