US 5,629,508 A · Dual smart card access control electronic data storage and retrieval system and methods

Abstract

The present invention pertains to an electronic data access and retrieval system comprising at least first and second smart cards, a first card being encoded with digital data fields representative of predetermined information and a second card including authorization codes for enabling access to and authorized retrieval of selected information from digital data fields of the first card, and includes computer means including display means for displaying the access data. A method is also disclosed of operating an electronic secured access verification display system for displaying an indication of permissable and non-permissable access to a facility of authorized personnel and for verifying the identity of such personnel by providing IDENTITY SMART CARDS, one for each authorized person, and an ACCESS SMART CARD to each authorized operator of the system.

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Dependent claims

An electronic data access and retrieval system comprising:

at least first and second smart cards, a first card being encoded with digital data fields representative of predetermined information and a second card including authorization codes for enabling access to and authorized retrieval of selected information from said digital data fields of said first card;
computer means including display means for displaying the accessed data and having at least first and second smart card read/write means operatively connected to said computer means for reading data fields from and writing data fields to said first and second smart cards;
whereby when the said first smart card is placed into said first read/write means and the said second smart card is placed into said second read/write means, access to and authorized retrieval of at least some of the data fields contained in the said first card is enabled and displayed.

Method of operating an electronic secured access verification display system for displaying an indication of permissable and non-permissable access to a facility of authorized personnel and for verifying the identity of such personnel, comprising the steps of:

a) providing a plurality of IDENTITY smart cards, one for each authorized person, each encoded with digital data representative of personal identity and including official information and a digitized photograph indicative of said each authorized person;
b) providing an ACCESS smart card to each authorized operator of said system, each ACCESS card being encoded with control data elements mandatory to operate said system to display permissable and non-permissable access to said facility of each authorized person having an IDENTITY smart card indicative of the identity of said each authorized person;
c) inserting into said display system an ACCESS smart card and one of said plurality of IDENTITY smart cards to display permissable and non-permissable access to said facility.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Dual smart card access control electronic data storage and retrieval system and methods

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Dual smart card access control electronic data storage and retrieval system and methods

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