The Infoglide Identity Resolution Engine (IRE) is a fast, accurate, and scalable software solution that provides accurate identity searching, matching, linking and relationship detection. Developed and refined as the screening solution for the Departnment of Homeland Security TSA program. It is ideal for use in mission critical applications where matching needs to be close to 100% in environments with inconsistant and dirty data.

Key Capabilities:

Similarity Search/Identity Matching – Who’s Who

Due to data entry errors or purposeful manipulations, organizations often have several variations of individuals’ identities spread across different data silos. IRE analyzes data in disparate, often remote, data sources such as employee records, vendor data, and watch lists to determine which variations may or may not be the same individual. By comparing similarities between underlying attributes such as address, date of birth, driver’s license, etc., IRE eliminates some possible matches and confirms others as very likely matches.

IRE combines patented algorithms with a massive lexographic library to inspect the data and assess the degree of similarity between the data. It returns a scored result that indicates the likelihood that certain entities are a match. It can then access both internal and external data sources, including commercially available public sources, and can operate in batch mode or real time.

For example, IRE can determine if Moamar El Kadhaafi, Moammar Khadafy, and Mo’ammar Gadhafi are the same person with altered name spellings or three distinct individuals.

Relationship Detection – Who Knows Whom

IRE applies analytical logic to understand where non-obvious relationships exist between individuals and entities. In the example above, perhaps Muammar al-Quaddafi and Mo’ammar Gadhafi are not the same individual, but rather two distinct people who share common attributes such as a similar address or phone number.

Decisioning and Rules Processing

IRE applies rules specific to the industry or organization. In the instance of airline passenger screening, if Muammar al-Quaddafi and Mo’ammar Gadhafi are two people who share common attributes such as a similar address or phone number and Muammar al-Quaddafi is on the terrorist watch list and Mo’ammar Gadhafi is trying to board an airplane, that signals a possible risk.

Business Processing

The information from the three preceding steps is used to determine what action, if any, needs to be taken. Based on the needs of the organization, this determination can be specifically tailored and adapted. So, in our example, DHS may want to mark Mo’ammar Gadhafi’s boarding pass so that he undergoes further screening before being allowed to pass through security.