Identification information managing method and system
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorAtsushi Ito
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Abstract
A ticket system using an IC card includes a terminal, such as an entrance gate, and a server. A ticket incorporates an IC chip having read-only identification information and the server manages a table of the correspondence between identification information printed on the surface of the ticket and identification information the IC chip has and a table of the correspondence between new identification information and old identification information which are accompanied by a reissue. By distributing data of the correspondence tables to a terminal such as an entrance gate, a cheap ticket system capable of performing mechanical processing can be provided.
Claims6
An identification information managing system comprising a reissue terminal unit for accepting reissue of a ticket or card embedded with an IC chip, a local server for managing utilization of said ticket or card, and a center server for managing a ticket/card ID of the ticket or card corresponding to an IC chip ID of said IC chip, wherein
- said reissue terminal unit reads a new IC chip ID of a new ticket or card after reissue from said new ticket or card and besides receives an input of an old ticket/card ID of an old ticket or card before the reissue so as to transmit to said center server said new IC chip ID and said old ticket/card ID together with a reissue request message;
- said center server retrieves whether said old ticket/card ID exists and when determining that said old ticket/card ID exists, transmits to said reissue terminal unit a reissue permission message and transmits to said local server at least one of an old IC chip ID corresponding to said old ticket/card ID and said old ticket/card ID, said new ticket/card ID and said new IC chip ID, together with reissue notification message;
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- said local server makes said new ticket/card ID and said new IC chip ID valid in place of said old ticket/card ID and said old IC chip ID.
A center server capable of managing identification information for managing a ticket/card ID of a ticket or card and an IC chip ID of an IC chip embedded in said ticket or card by making the correspondence therebetween, comprising:
- a reception processing unit for receiving a new IC chip ID of a new ticket or card after reissue and an old ticket/card ID of an old ticket or card, together with a reissue request message, from a reissue terminal unit for said ticket or card;
- a retrieval unit for retrieving whether said old ticket/card ID exists;
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- a transmission processing unit for transmitting, when the existence of said old ticket/card ID in the database is determined, a reissue permission message to said reissue terminal unit and transmitting at least one of an old chip ID corresponding to said old ticket/card ID and said old ticket/card ID and said new IC chip ID, together with a reissue notification message, to a local server.
An identification information managing method aided by a computer for managing a ticket/card ID of a ticket/card and an IC chip ID of an IC chip embedded in said ticket or card by making the correspondence therebetween, wherein
- a database stores said ticket/card ID in correspondence with said IC chip ID;
- a reception processing unit of said computer receives a new IC chip ID of a new ticket or card after reissue and an old ticket/card ID of an old ticket or card before reissue, together with a reissue request message, from a reissue terminal unit for said ticket or card;
- a retrieval unit of said computer retrieves whether said old ticket/card ID exists in said database;
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- a transmission processing unit of said computer transmits, when the existence of said old ticket/card ID in said database is determined, a reissue permission message to said reissue terminal unit and transmits at least one of an old IC chip ID corresponding to said old ticket/card ID and said old ticket/card ID and said new IC chip ID, together with a reissue notification message, to a local server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.