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US 6,580,356 B1Granted
Advanced personal identification systems and techniques
OwnerEckhard Alt, Juergen Jaekelinventors
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A method for identifying a person authorized to enter into a secured transaction, including implementing a security system to receive a coded signal that purports to identify as an authorized person the wearer of a device generating the coded signal through a transmission link constituting the body of the wearer, upon physical contact between an input terminal of the security system and the body of the wearer. After purported identification of the wearer as an authorized person for the transaction, data stored in a memory of the device is delivered to assist in processing the transaction by access through the security system. Data stemming from the transaction is retrieved for updating data stored in the memory, usable in a subsequent transaction by the wearer. When a higher level of security is required for entry into the transaction, a predetermined physical characteristic of the wearer is scanned at the time the received coded signal purports to identify the wearer as an authorized person; and the scanned physical characteristic is then compared with a stored representation of the physical characteristic of the actual person identified by the coded signal to evaluate if a match exists. A personal identifier for a security system is also disclosed.
A personal identification system for automatically verifying a procedure to be performed on a patient in a health care facility based upon recognition of the identity of a user as the patient on whom the procedure is to be performed, comprising a signal transmission unit adapted to be carried by the user and including a signal generator for generating a signal encoded with a selected unique descriptor of the user;
A method for automatically verifying a procedure to be performed on a patient in a health care facility by recognizing the identity of a user as the patient on whom the procedure is to be performed, said method comprising the steps of providing an electrical signal transmission unit to be worn on the body of the user for generating a signal to be transmitted through a communication link created by the natural electrical conductivity of the body;
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