US 8,128,470 B2Granted

Competition cheat-preventing system and method

AssigneesJin-Hao Chao Cheng, Yu-Lun Ho

InventorsJin-Hao Chao Cheng, Yu-Lun Ho

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Abstract

A competition cheat-preventing system and method are applicable in a pigeon racing competition, wherein racing pigeons each wear a pigeon ring. An encrypted code-generating module is configured to generate contest encrypted codes from contest codes of the racing pigeons through specific parameter calculations. A barcode converting module is configured to convert the contest encrypted codes into two-dimensional barcodes. A barcode reading module is configured to read the two-dimensional barcodes to obtain original contest encrypted codes. An information transmission module is configured to transmit the original contest encrypted codes to a computer apparatus. An information-receiving module is configured to receive the original contest encrypted codes. A barcode decoding module is configured to perform reverse calculations to restore the original contest encrypted codes to original contest codes. A comparison module is configured to compare the original contest codes with contest codes recorded in the computer apparatus.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A competition cheat-preventing system for use in a pigeon racing competition, allowing information transmission to be performed through an information transmission system between a computer apparatus and a remote pigeon clock device and between the computer apparatus and a mobile communications device having a non-transitory camera module, wherein racing pigeons each wear a pigeon ring, the competition cheat-preventing system comprising:

a non-transitory encrypted code-generating module configured to generate contest encrypted codes from contest codes of the racing pigeons through calculations of specific parameters in the computer apparatus;
a non-transitory barcode converting module configured to convert the contest encrypted codes into two-dimensional barcodes and allow the two-dimensional barcodes to be outputted from the computer apparatus and placed in the pigeon rings of the racing pigeons;
a non-transitory barcode reading module configured to identify images of the two-dimensional barcodes in the pigeon rings captured by the non-transitory camera module of the mobile communications device for the racing pigeons reaching the remote pigeon clock device, and read contents of the two-dimensional barcodes to obtain original contest encrypted codes;
a non-transitory information transmission module connected to the mobile communications device and configured to transmit the original contest encrypted codes to the computer apparatus;
a non-transitory information-receiving module connected to the computer apparatus and configured to receive the original contest encrypted codes transmitted by the non-transitory information transmission module;
a non-transitory barcode decoding module configured to perform reverse calculations on the received original contest encrypted codes through specific parameters corresponding to the non-transitory encrypted code-generating module so as to restore the original contest encrypted codes to original contest codes;
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a non-transitory comparison module configured to compare the original contest codes and contest codes recorded in the computer apparatus for verifying consistency therebetween.

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A competition cheat-preventing method for use in a pigeon racing competition, allowing information transmission to be performed through an information transmission system between a computer apparatus and a remote pigeon clock device and between the computer apparatus and a mobile communications device having a camera module, wherein racing pigeons each wear a pigeon ring that includes a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) module therein, and the remote pigeon clock device is connected to a communications module and a sensing module, the competition cheat-preventing method comprising the steps of:

generating contest encrypted codes from contest codes of the racing pigeons through calculations of specific parameters in the computer apparatus;
converting the contest encrypted codes into two-dimensional barcodes and printing out the two-dimensional barcodes via the computer apparatus;
placing the two-dimensional barcodes in the pigeon rings of the racing pigeons;
when the racing pigeons reach the remote pigeon clock device, identifying images of the two-dimensional barcodes in the pigeon rings taken by the camera module of the mobile communications device, and reading contents of the two-dimensional barcodes to obtain original contest encrypted codes;
transmitting the original contest encrypted codes to the computer apparatus via the mobile communications device;
receiving the original contest encrypted codes transmitted by the mobile communications device;
performing reverse calculations on the received original contest encrypted codes through specific parameters corresponding to the encrypted code-generating module so as to restore the original contest encrypted codes to original contest codes;
and
comparing the original contest codes with contest codes recorded in the computer apparatus to verify consistency therebetween.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/268,411Filed 10 Nov 2008
Priority: TW 97100950 A10 Jan 2008
Published: US 2009/0181739 A116 Jul 2009
Granted: 6 Mar 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G07C 1/26
In connection with sports or games: pigeon-timing or like equipment
H04L 9/3226
Including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system or for message authentication, e.g. authorization, entity…: using…
H04L 2209/805
Wireless: lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
G07C
Time or attendance registers