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Apparatus for preventing unauthorized access to computer files and for securing medical records

  • US 10,607,730 B2
  • Filed: 06/28/2018
  • Issued: 03/31/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for controlling the access of a particular human individual to a computer memory for a given period of time by repeatedly assessing a changeable visible identifying feature (“

  • VIF”

    ) of said human individual, and by assessing an identifying feature of a gatekeeping human individual said apparatus comprising, in combination;

    (a) a computer memory operative to store and provide (i) secure information, (ii) information representing a plurality of images of a VIF pertaining to at least one registered accessing human individual (“

    RAHI”

    ) authorized to access said secure information and (iii) information representing a plurality of images of a VIF pertaining to at least one registered gatekeeping human individual (“

    RGHI”

    ) authorized to enable access to said secure information;

    (b) a first processor coupled to the memory, operative to store selected information in the memory and to access selected information from the memory, and operative to produce (i) a plurality of first supplementing signals, (ii) at least one second supplementing signal, and (iii) a plurality of assessment signals;

    (c) a first camera, coupled to said first processor,(1) arranged to capture images of a visible identifying feature of a putative accessing human individual (“

    PAHI”

    ), and(2) configured to repeatedly generate successive test images of said VIF of said PAHI during a given period of time for transmission to said first processor;

    (d) a first supplemental identification device (“

    SID”

    ), arranged in the vicinity of said first camera, coupled to said first processor, and configured to supplement the test image information provided by said first camera in response to said at least one first supplementing signal received from said first processor, said first SID producing at least one of;

    an output configured to induce a change in the appearance of said VIF of said PAHI; and

    an output configured and arranged to display a visual representation of information represented by said first supplementing signal, wherein said first camera is arranged to capture images showing both said visual representation and a VIF of said PAHI, wherein said first SID modifies at least some of the visual information captured by said first camera;

    (e) a second camera, coupled to said first processor, arranged to input VIF information pertaining to putative gatekeeping human individual (“

    PGHI”

    );

    (f) a second SID, arranged in the vicinity of said second camera, coupled to said first processor, and configured to supplement the information provided by said first camera in response to said at least one second supplementing signal received from said first processor, said second SID producing at least one of;

    an output configured to induce a change in the appearance of said VIF of said PGHI; and

    an output configured and arranged to display a visual representation of information represented by said second supplementing signal, wherein said second camera is arranged to capture images showing both said visual representation and a VIF of said PGHI, wherein said second SID modifies at least some of the visual information captured by said second camera;

    (g) an output device, coupled to said first processor, operative to provide match information represented by said assessment signals to said RGHI; and

    (h) an input device, coupled to said first processor, operative to provide a signal to said processor representing an inputted access command from said RGHI pertaining to granting access to said memory, to a PAHI;

    wherein said first processor is operative to;

    (1) repeatedly generate said first supplementing signal for transmission to said first SID;

    (2) repeatedly compare each of said successive test images of said VIF of said PAHI received from said first camera, with said stored images of the VIF of said at least one RAHI to repeatedly assess the identity of the PAHI during said given period of time; and

    generate said at least one assessment signal indicating at least one result of said repeated assessment of the identity of the PAHI;

    (3) assess the inputted identification information of said PGHI to determine whether or not the PGHI is an RGHI, in dependence on whether or not the information contained in the inputted identification information of the PGHI matches the stored identification information of the RGHI;

    (4) provide the result of said repeated assessment to the output device; and

    (5) allow access by the PAHI to said memory for a given period of time, following the input of an access command by said RGHI.

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