Patent attributes
A system and method for the identification and verification of a user is provided. The disclosed invention has an enrollment system which includes (i) an alphanumeric input device; (ii) a biometric input device; (iii) a header file database having a plurality of identities; (iv) a search engine in communication with the header file database that searches the database for identifies that match alphanumeric data input by a user according to a predetermined first set of criteria; (v) a processor to score the set of identities matched by the search engine according to a predetermined second set of criteria, and determine that the user's input alphanumeric data based on the score is not suspicious; and (vi) an identity escrow database which receives an approved identity data signal based on the acceptability of the score, and is capable of receiving a biometric identity data signal input by the user to the biometric input device, the escrow database further capable of creating at least one subfile within the escrow database for each user comprising the approved identity data signal and the biometric data signal.
