System and method for comparing documents

• US 20060101327A1
• Filed: 11/09/2004
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellicheck, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc.
• Inventors: Embry, Russell T., Mandelbaum, Frank
• Granted Patent: US 7,860,318 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/194 Calculation of difference between files
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0225 Avoiding frauds
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0236 Incentive or reward received by requiring registration or ID from user
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/416 Extracting the logical structure, e.g. chapters, sections or page numbers; Identifying elements of the document, e.g. authors
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/418 Document matching, e.g. of document images

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method for comparing information contained on at least two documents belonging to an entity. The present invention includes at least one device configured to receive information from at least one first document and at least one second document; then, compare at least one first document information and at least one second document information; and determine whether at least one second document contains at least one first document information. The present invention then outputs a result of whether the at least one second document contains at least one first document information.

Claims

1. A system for comparing documents, comprising:

at least one device configured to;

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receive information from at least one first document and at least one second document;

compare said at least one first document information and said at least one second document information; and

determine whether said at least one second document contains said at least one first document information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said device is further configured to

extract information from said at least one first document into at least one first document field;

and

extract information from said at least one second document into at least one second document field.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said device is further configured to

determine if a type of said at least one first document field is common to a type of said at least one second document field;

and

if so, compare said extracted information in said at least one first document field to said extracted information in said at least one second document field.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said types of at least one first document field and at least one second document field are determined based on information contained on said documents.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one first document and at least one second document are selected from a group consisting of:

a driver'"'"'s license, a passport, a credit card, a benefit card, a military identification, a government issued identification, a non-government issued identification, and a bank card.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a document reader, a processor coupled to said document reader, a memory coupled to said processor, and a display coupled to said processor.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said document reader is a magnetic stripe reader.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein said document reader is a bar code reader.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein said document reader is a smart card reader.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein said document reader is a machine readable zone (“

MRZ”

) reader.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein said display outputs a signal after said device determines whether said at least one second document contains said at least one first document information.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said signal is characterized by at least one of:

color, sound, and text.

13. A method for comparing documents on a device, comprising the steps of:

receiving information from at least one first document and at least one second document;

comparing the information from the at least one first document to the information from the at least one second document; and

determining whether the at least one second document contains the at least one first document information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein said receiving step further comprising:

extracting information contained on said at least one first and at least one second document.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said at least one first and at least one second documents are selected from a group consisting of:

a driver'"'"'s license, a passport, a credit card, a benefit card, a military identification, a government issued identification, a non-government issued identification, and a bank card.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein said extracting step further comprises, for said at least one first and at least one second document, allocating the information among a plurality of document fields.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said determining step further comprises

identifying types of document fields that contain information and are common to all entity'"'"'s identification documents;

and

comparing information contained in the document fields having common document field types.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the common document field types are selected from a group consisting of:

entity'"'"'s identification characteristics and entity'"'"'s biometric parameters.

19. A method for comparing information contained on an entity'"'"'s identification documents, comprising the steps of:

extracting information contained on the entity'"'"'s identification documents;

comparing information extracted from the entity'"'"'s identification documents; and

determining if at least one extracted information is contained on compared entity'"'"'s identification documents.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the entity'"'"'s identification documents are selected from a group consisting of:

a driver'"'"'s license, a passport, a credit card, a benefit card, a military identification, a government issued identification, a non-government issued identification, and a bank card.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein said extracting step further comprises, for each entity'"'"'s identification document, allocating the information among a plurality of document fields.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said determining step further comprises

identifying types of document fields that contain information and are common to all entity'"'"'s identification documents;

and

comparing information contained in the document fields having common document field types.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the common document field types are selected from a group consisting of:

entity'"'"'s identification characteristics and entity'"'"'s biometric parameters.

24. A method for comparing information contained on at least two documents, comprising the steps of:

extracting information obtained from a first document and a second document;

comparing extracted first and second document information; and

determining whether the second document contains information extracted from the first document.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein said extracting step further comprises:

allocating information extracted from the first document among first document identification fields and information extracted from the second document among second document identification fields.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein said comparing step further comprises:

identifying types of first and second document identification fields that contain information and are common to the first and second documents; and

comparing information contained in the first and second document identification fields having common document field types.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising generating a signal indicating whether at least one second document identification field contains at least one first document field information, wherein the at least one first and second document identification fields have common types.