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Personal criteria verification using fractional information

  • US 8,321,531 B2
  • Filed: 07/22/2011
  • Issued: 11/27/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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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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