US 8,009,873 B2 · Method and apparatus for providing identification

Abstract

A method of providing identification of an entity includes maintaining a database of identification data specific to the appearance and condition of entities, providing a unique description for each entity enabling access to the entity's identification data in the database, providing identification means adapted for portage with the entity and containing the unique description and maintaining secondary databases containing the entity's identification data as acquired from prior encounters so that multiple comparisons can be made to assure that the individual bearing the identification means is the same individual to whom the identification means were issued.

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Dependent claims

An identity checking method for verifying the identity of an individual including the steps of:

(a.) capturing the individual's initial biometric data at an initial time and storing it on a database;
(b.) associating the initial biometric data captured in step (a) with a unique description, storing said data and description in said database and storing said biometric data and said unique description in an electronic document issued to the individual;
(c.) capturing contemporary biometric data and said unique description of the individual by remote sensing means at a point of departure of the individual;
(d.) interrogating said database for said initial biometric data corresponding to said captured unique description;
(e.) comparing said contemporary biometric data with corresponding initial biometric data retrieved from interrogating step (d);
(f.) making a decision on the basis of the degree of correlation in comparing step (e);
(g.) forwarding data including said captured contemporary biometric data and unique description to a local database at a point of arrival of the individual;
(h.) capturing arrival biometric data and said unique description of the individual by remote sensing of the individual at said point of arrival;
(i.) comparing the captured arrival biometric data and unique description of step (h) with the forwarded captured contemporary biometric data and unique description of step (g);
(j.) making a decision on the basis of identity between the forwarded and captured unique descriptions of steps (g) and (h) and the degree of correlation between the forwarded and captured biometric data of steps (g) and (h);
(k.) interrogating said database for the initial biometric data corresponding to the unique description captured in step (h);
(l.) comparing said arrival biometric data captured in step (h) with said corresponding initial biometric data;
and
(m.) making a decision on the basis of the degree of correlation of biometric data in step (l),
whereby passage through said point of arrival is conditioned upon favorable decisions made in all of the comparing steps.

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An identity checking method for verifying the identity of an individual including the steps of:

a. capturing the individual's initial biometric data at an initial time and storing it on an enrollment database;
b. associating the initial biometric data captured in step (a) with a unique description, storing said data and description in said enrollment database and storing said biometric data and said unique description in an electronic database in a document issued to the individual;
c. capturing departure biometric data and said unique description of the individual by sensing means at a point of departure of the individual;
d. forwarding data captured at the point of departure, including said captured biometric data and unique description to a local database at a point of arrival of the individual;
e. capturing arrival biometric data and said unique description of the individual by sensing means at said point of arrival;
f. comparing the captured arrival biometric data and description of step (e) with the forwarded captured departure biometric data and unique description of step (d);
g. making a decision on the basis of identity between the forwarded and captured unique descriptions of steps (d) and (e) and the degree of correlation between the forwarded and captured biometric data of steps (d) and (e);
h. interrogating said enrollment database for the initial biometric data corresponding to the unique description captured in step (e);
i. comparing said arrival biometric data captured in step (e) with corresponding initial biometric data;
and
j. making a decision on the basis of the degree of correlation of biometric data in step (i),
whereby passage through said point of arrival is conditioned upon a high degree of correlation in said comparing steps to continue travel and a low degree of correlation to limit future passage.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Description11,560 words

Summary6,062 words

#Not Applicable

#This invention relates to a method of and apparatus for providing identification. This invention has particular but not exclusive application to a method of and apparatus for identifying persons and unique articles which retain or are intended to retain a lifelong distinctive identity such as computers, computer records, computer software, network hardware including RF local and wide area network access equipment, databases, database records, categorized watch lists for individuals, portable computer storage devices, audit archival equipment, passports, documents of identity, documents of registration, operator license documents, paintings and other objects of art. Such individual persons, equipment, records and articles are hereinafter collectively referred to as “an individual or individuals or entities”. In other aspects of the invention an “individual or individuals” may be used for identifying freightable articles such as shipping containers, the contents of shipping containers, boxes for shipping, airplanes, ships, motor vehicles and their respective individual components or the like.

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#In order that this invention may be more readily understood and put into practical effect reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of the invention and wherein:

#FIG. 1a is a pictorial representation of an identification card according to the invention;

#FIG. 1b is a pictorial representation of another identification card according to the invention;

Detailed description5,238 words

#The radio frequency responsive identification card 10 illustrated in FIG. 1a includes a wallet sized flexible plastic base layer 11 foldable about a centrally located fold line 12 which divides the card into an information portion 13 and a validation portion 14. The information portion 13 includes a circuitous antenna 15 embedded in the base layer 11 for receiving signals. The antenna 15 is operatively connected to an entry transponder 16, a description transponder 17 and a validation transponder 18. The validation transponder 18 is located on the validation portion 14, the connection thereto passing across the fold line 12 by conductive tracks 19 and 20. A time delay component 22 is arranged to create a time delay between receipt of a radio frequency signal and transmission of a responding signal.

#The transponders 16, 17 and 18 are arranged to report in sequence in response to a radio frequency signal transmitted from an adjacent transmitting and receiving station The entry transponder 16 includes an entry key component 22 which is configured to transmit a reader station access code to the receiving station, thereby alerting the receiving station of a valid signal part. The receiving station is thereby prepared for receiving further signal parts from transponders 16, 17 and 18. The component 22 effectively prevents the receiving station processing any signal which does not begin with the access code. The transponder 16 also contains information in respect of which database contains the individuals identification file.

#The description transponder 17 is an integrated circuit which transmits a signal indicative of the unique description assigned to the individual to whom the card was issued and an identification of the issuing station which issued the card. The description transponder 17 transmits its signal directly after transponder 16. The transponder 18 is an integrated circuit containing a validation and encryption code. The encryption code is unique to the card and cooperates with the file location code such that the signal recorded by the receiving station is a parcel of information with a unique identifier which must be decoded by corresponding decoding means associated with the receiving station.

Facts

Application

11/145,852Filed 6 Jun 2005 · continuation in part

Priority

30 Apr 1997

Published

US 2005/0258238 A124 Nov 2005

Granted

30 Aug 2011

Term ended

25 Feb 2020

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment, including 1,031 days of adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification11 codes

G06K 19/07381
By detecting tampering with the circuit: with deactivation or otherwise incapacitation of at least a part of the circuit upon detected tampering
G06K 19/077
With integrated circuit chips: constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
G06K 19/07779
The antenna being of the inductive type: the inductive antenna being a coil
G07B 15/00
Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one

Timeline

30 Apr 1997Priority claimedParent application 08/793,415
6 Jun 2005Application filedUS 11/145,852
1 Jul 2005Assigned to P-Seven Holdings Pty., Ltd.assignment of assignor's interest
24 Nov 2005PublishedUS 2005/0258238 A1
12 May 2008Assigned to Neotec Holdings Limitednunc pro tunc assignment
30 Aug 2011GrantedUS 8,009,873 B2
25 Feb 2020Term endedEstimated, includes 1,031 days of adjustment

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