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Scalable searching of biometric databases using dynamic selection of data subsets

  • US 8,364,646 B2
  • Filed: 03/05/2007
  • Issued: 01/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. 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 based on users expecting to pass through a given biometric acquisition device within a certain time period, the biometric acquisition device linked with the first database and located at or near one of;

    an airport entry, a passenger boarding gate and a building entry;

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

    deleting one or more records in the first database in response to biometric matching using information stored in one or more fields of the one or more biometric records.

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