Personal criteria verification using fractional information
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1. A method comprising:
- in response to a request for access to data that is accessible only to individuals meeting at least one predetermined criterion, requesting only partial identifying information for a person requesting access to the data, wherein the partial identifying information includes less than all characters of a data element that is usable to identify the person;
requesting, using a computer, information regarding records associated with respective individuals having attributes matching the partial identifying information;
receiving, by the computer, information regarding a plurality of records associated with respective individuals each having attributes matching the partial identifying information;
determining whether each of the plurality of records includes attributes matching the at least one predetermined criterion; and
in response to determining that each of the plurality of records includes attributes matching the at least one predetermined criterion, providing an indication that the person requesting access is authorized to access the data without providing a specific identity of the person.
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Abstract
A method for verifying the identity of users connected to a computer network comprises providing fractional information queries to users, wherein responses to these individual queries are not sufficient to identify the user. This method further comprises receiving responses to these fractional information queries and comparing these responses to data available from within a computer network. A set of potential matches to the user is generated according to these responses and is used in determining whether the set of potential matches is sufficient to identify the user.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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in response to a request for access to data that is accessible only to individuals meeting at least one predetermined criterion, requesting only partial identifying information for a person requesting access to the data, wherein the partial identifying information includes less than all characters of a data element that is usable to identify the person; requesting, using a computer, information regarding records associated with respective individuals having attributes matching the partial identifying information; receiving, by the computer, information regarding a plurality of records associated with respective individuals each having attributes matching the partial identifying information; determining whether each of the plurality of records includes attributes matching the at least one predetermined criterion; and in response to determining that each of the plurality of records includes attributes matching the at least one predetermined criterion, providing an indication that the person requesting access is authorized to access the data without providing a specific identity of the person. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus comprising:
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a computer operably associated with a memory, the memory holding instructions configured to cause the computer to; request partial identifying data of a person requesting access to information that is accessible only to persons meeting at least one predetermined criterion wherein the partial identifying data includes less than all characters of a data element that is usable to identify the person; query at least one data source using the partial identifying data to identify one or more records associated with respective individuals each having attributes matching the partial identifying data; determining whether each of the identified one or more records includes attributes matching the at least one predetermined criterion; and in response to determining that each of the identified one or more records includes attributes matching the at least one predetermined criterion, providing an indication that the person requesting access is authorized to access the information without providing a specific identity of the person. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium having software instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
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in response to a request for access to data that is accessible only to individuals meeting at least one predetermined criterion, requesting only partial identifying information for a person requesting access to the data, wherein the partial identifying information includes less than all characters of a data element that is usable to identify the person; requesting information regarding records associated with respective individuals having attributes matching the partial identifying information; receiving information regarding a plurality of records associated with respective individuals each having attributes matching the partial identifying information; determining whether each of the plurality of records includes attributes matching the at least one predetermined criterion; and in response to determining that each of the plurality of records includes attributes matching the at least one predetermined criterion, providing an indication that the person requesting access is authorized to access the data without providing a specific identity of the person. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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