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THE INVENTION CONCERNS A COMPUTERIZED IDENTITY MATCHING MANAGEMENT PROCESS. THE PROCESS COMPRISES THE STEPS OF A MANAGEMENT COMPUTER (20) RECEIVING A REQUEST FROM CAPTURE APPARATUS WAITING TO COMMENCE A BIOMETRIC CAPTURE PROCESS, TO INITIATE THE CAPTURE PROCESS.THE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER (20) RESPONDS TO THE REQUEST TO RETURN A MESSAGE TO THE CAPTURE APPARATUS AT A FIRST INSTANT IN TIME,THE MESSAGE CONTAINING A UNIQUE CODE, AND WHERE RECEIPT OF THE MESSAGE CONTAINING THE CODE AT THE CAPTURE APPARATUS CAUSES INITIATION OF THE CAPTURE PROCESS. THE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER (20), AFTER RETURNING A MESSAGE, RECEIVES A CAPTURED BIOMETRIC FROM THE CAPTURE APPARATUS CODED WITH THE CODE, AT A SECOND INSTANT IN TIME.THE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER (20) OPERATES, WHEN THE SECOND INSTANT IS LESS THAN A PREDETERMINED TIME LATER THAN THE FIRST INSTANT, TO DECODE THE CAPTURED BIOMETRIC AND INITIATE A MATCHING PROCESS TO FIND A MATCH FOR THE DECODED CAPTURED BIOMETRIC AGAINST STORED RECORDS AND TO GENERATE AN IDENTIFICATION CODE WHEN A MATCH IS FOUND.THE INVENTION FURTHER CONCERNS A COMPUTERIZED IDENTITY MATCHING MANAGEMENT UNIT, AND AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE.(FIG 1)
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