Personal criteria verification using fractional information
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1. A method, comprising:
- receiving, at a computing system of a service provider, a first partial identifying data item for a person requesting access to a resource, wherein the first partial identifying data item includes less than all characters of a respective full identifying data item for the person;
receiving, by the computing system from a first external data source, a first set of one or more records associated with individuals having attributes matching the first partial identifying data item; and
determining, by the computing system, whether the first set of one or more records satisfy a sufficiency criterion of the service provider for granting access to the resource;
wherein the service provider does not have access to information sufficient to determine an identity of the person, either at the computing system or from an external data source accessible by the computing system.
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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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1. A method, comprising:
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receiving, at a computing system of a service provider, a first partial identifying data item for a person requesting access to a resource, wherein the first partial identifying data item includes less than all characters of a respective full identifying data item for the person; receiving, by the computing system from a first external data source, a first set of one or more records associated with individuals having attributes matching the first partial identifying data item; and determining, by the computing system, whether the first set of one or more records satisfy a sufficiency criterion of the service provider for granting access to the resource; wherein the service provider does not have access to information sufficient to determine an identity of the person, either at the computing system or from an external data source accessible by the computing system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions are executable by a computing system in order to cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
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receiving two or more partial identifying data items for a person requesting access to a resource of a service provider, wherein each of the two or more partial identifying data items includes less than all characters of respective identifying data items that are usable to identify the person; receiving a first set of one or more records associated with individuals having attributes matching a first partial identifying data item of the two or more partial identifying data items; receiving a second set of one or more records associated with individuals having attributes matching a second partial identifying data item of the two or more partial identifying data items; and determining whether to grant the person access to the resource based on at least a comparison of the first and second sets of records; wherein the determining is performed without the service provider receiving information specifically identifying the person. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computing system, comprising:
one or more processors configured to execute instructions in order to cause the computing system to; receive two or more partial identifying data items for a person requesting access to a resource, wherein each of the two or more partial identifying data items includes less than all characters of respective identifying data items that are usable to identify the person; receive a first set of one or more records associated with individuals having attributes matching a first partial identifying data item of the two or more partial identifying data items; receive a second set of one or more records associated with individuals having attributes matching a second partial identifying data item of the two or more partial identifying data items; and verify information about the person based on at least the first and second sets of records, without receiving information specifically identifying the person. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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