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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2005
Peter Z. Lo, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Behnam Bavarian, Newport Coast, CA (US);
Peter Z. Lo, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Behnam Bavarian, Newport Coast, CA (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for fingerprint record identification includes the steps of: assigning () a first number of fingers for a first matching stage and a second number of fingers for a second matching stage; performing () the first matching stage of comparing, based on the first number of assigned fingers, a search record to at least a portion of a plurality of file records and generating first matching results of a subset of the at least a portion of the plurality of file records; and performing () the second matching stage of comparing, based on the second number of assigned fingers, the search record to at least a portion of the subset and generating second matching results of one of: a strong hit; a weak hit; no hit; and a an ordered portion of the subset.