×

System and method for remote, wireless positive identity verification

  • US 6,040,783 A
  • Filed: 11/10/1997
  • Issued: 03/21/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A mobile positive identification system comprising:

  • at least one remote database site having stored therein a database comprising a plurality of access authority information units corresponding to authorized users of the system and a database comprising a plurality of digital photographic images of persons to be identified;

    a mobile point of identification terminal having an access authority information unit input for inputting an access authority information unit presented by a user of the system, an identifying information input for accepting identifying information presented by a person to be positively identified at said mobile point of identification terminal and a display device for displaying digital photographic images of persons to be identified;

    a communications link, linking said mobile point of identification terminal to said at least one remote database, wherein said communications link is comprised, at least in part, of a wireless communications link;

    a means for verifying that said point of identification terminal is authorized to access said remote database site; and

    a means for verifying that said user of said system has compared the digital photographic images displayed on the display means with the physical appearance of the person being identified at the point of identification terminal and that a match exists between at least one of said digital photographic images and the physical appearance of said person being identified.

View all claims
  • 6 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×