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US 7519558
Biometrically enabled private secure information repository
Current assignee: Individual
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Patent Overview — US 7,519,558 B2
Title: Biometrically enabled private secure information repository
Patent number: US 7,519,558 B2; application US 10/245,232; publication US 2003/0225693 A1.
Assignee: Listed as Individual (original assignee Individual; the source notes listed assignees may be inaccurate).
Inventors: Claudio R. Ballard; Amarish Pathak; Michael T. Imbruce; Edward H. Currie; James Cassata; Maurice N. Freedman.
Dates: Priority date 1997-08-27 (claimed from US 08/917,761; also from US 09/454,492, 1999-12-06). Filing date 2002-09-17. Granted/publication date 2009-04-14. Adjusted expiration 2020-06-14; status "Expired - Fee Related."
Purpose: The invention "relates generally to a private system to store and retrieve all types of information with the use of biometrics for authentication and encryption techniques for security." Personal information may include leases, deeds, passports, birth certificates, wills, trusts, driver's licenses, bank/credit information, commercial transaction information, educational and citizenship information.
Plain-language scope: The described system comprises at least one remote client subsystem (receiving/transmitting data); at least one remote data processing subsystem with an encryption subsystem and a biometric authentication subsystem; at least one remote data management subsystem; at least one remote data storage subsystem; and at least one communication network for secure transmission among them. Users enroll by presenting documents to authenticate claimed identity, inputting biometrics and required information at client stations; enrollment biometrics are stored in an enrollment biometric database for later verification. Merchants and commercial users may enroll and act as hosts; the system may also transact with non-enrolled users, businesses, or institutions. Abbreviations shown: ORB (Object Request Broker), AS (Application Server), DB (Database), ES (Encryption Subsystem), DTBS (Biometric Subsystem).
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7519558/en
What the excerpt does not establish: The full claim set, figures (FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 are referenced but not reproduced), detailed biometric/encryption implementation, and the complete specification are not included. No litigation, ownership-transfer, validity, or prior-art analysis is made here.
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