Salable searching of biometric databases using dynamic selection of data subsets

• US 20070206839A1
• Filed: 03/05/2007
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EyeLock LLC (VOXX International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: EyeLock Inc. (VOXX International Corporation)
• Inventors: Hanna, Keith, Hoyos, Hector
• Granted Patent: US 8,364,646 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/95 structured as a network, e.g. client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands

Abstract

A method of searching a biometric database includes storing biometric data corresponding to a number of users in a database, and defining one or more data subsets in the database according to inputs from users expecting to pass through a given biometric acquisition device that is linked with the database within a certain time period. A search initiated by the given acquisition device at a given time is then scaled down to only those data subsets defined by the inputs from those users expecting to pass through the acquisition device at the given time. This modification of the database and database search is performed continuously and automatically based on dynamic information provided by other automatic and/or manual systems, and then optionally the information on the databases can be automatically modified or deleted based either on a biometric match result or based on rules encoded in the database records.

Claims

1. A method of searching a biometric database, comprising:

storing biometric data corresponding to a number of users in a common database;

defining one or more data subsets in the database according to inputs from users expecting to pass through a given biometric acquisition device that is linked with the database within a certain time period, and

scaling a search initiated by the given acquisition device at a given time to only those data subsets defined by the inputs from those users expecting to pass through the acquisition device at the given time.

2. A method of searching a first biometric database, comprising:

storing biometric data corresponding to a number of users in a second database;

defining one or more data subsets in the second database according to inputs from users expecting to pass through a given biometric acquisition device that is linked with the first database within a certain time period;

transmitting the data subsets from the second database to the first database; and

scaling a search initiated by the given acquisition device at a given time to only the data subsets contained in the first database as defined by the inputs from those users expecting to pass through the acquisition device at the given time.

3. A method of modifying a first biometric database, comprising:

storing biometric data corresponding to a number of users in a second database;

defining one or more data subsets in the second database according to inputs from users expecting to pass through a given biometric acquisition device that is linked with the first database within a certain time period;

transmitting the data subsets from the second database to the first database; and

adding, modifying or deleting one or more records in the first database based either on information stored in one or more fields of the one or more records in the first database, or on the result of biometric matching using information stored in one or more fields of one or more biometric records, or on the information stored in one or more fields of the one or more records in the second database.