Abstract: The present invention seeks to minimize, reduce and/or eliminate credit fraud, identity theft and erroneous the incurrence of charges. The present invention allows individuals and/or entities to passively authenticate credit/banking access in real-time. Embodiments of the invention includes methods, systems, programs, and/or methods of doing business for banking/credit transactions including, inter alia, credit card point of sale (“POS”) purchases, e-commerce, credit issuance and credit inquiries, which minimize or eliminate credit and identity theft.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward identifying potential genealogical relationships between a plurality of individuals through name analysis and assigning to each identified relationship a value related to the confidence that the identified relationship exists.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a technique for the identification of operational entities in unstructured text. The technique consists of the preparation of a series of dictionaries, combining these dictionaries into a single Negative Element Dictionary, then searching an unstructured file for terms matching those in the Negative Element Dictionary. Each term present in the unstructured file but not present in the Negative Element Dictionary is considered an operational entity.

Abstract: The present invention is comprised of a computer system and software used to prevent sex offenders from accessing facilities. The invention is comprised of a computer system, an identification card reader, and software containing a database of known sex offenders. When presented with an identification card, the card reader parses the information from the identification card and presents the information to the software system. The software system searches a database of known sex offenders and returns a set of potential matches. The user of the system reviews the search results and makes a decision to allow/disallow access of the individual to the facility.

Abstract: A method and system for identifying variants of one or more terms to be searched in a data collection, and searching such data collection to retrieve the terms and their variants, to ensure that all variants of the search term existing in the data collection are identified. A term that has been transliterated from a foreign language is separated into one or more letter sequences, at least some of which have associated therewith one or more variant letter sequences. A family of variants for the original term is constructed, and the original search term is compared against the newly constructed variants to reveal the presence or absence of a transliteration variant of the original search term in a data set.