Biometric based airport access control

• US 20040169076A1
• Filed: 11/08/2002
• Published: 09/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Accu-Time Systems Incorporated (Amano Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Accu-Time Systems Incorporated (Amano Corporation)
• Inventors: Beale, Richard A., Shea, Joseph B., Benoit, Paul D.
• Application Number:
  US10/290,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20040169076A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/382
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/23 by means of a password
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence

Abstract

One aspect of the invention is a system controlling individual access at an airport. The system comprising an access card having machine readable information of an encoded biometric characteristic. An access control terminal includes a reader for reading the encoded biometric characteristic from the access card. A biometric reader makes a contemporaneous biometric reading of the presenting individual. A processor grants or denies access by comparing the read encoded biometric reading with the presenting individual biometric reading. Another aspect of the invention is controlling entry to commercial vehicles. A biometric reading of a passenger is taken. A boarding pass having the passenger'"'"'s biometric reading is generated. A contemporaneous biometric reading of each passenger presenting a boarding pass is taken. The presented boarding pass encoded information is compared to a contemporaneous input. Based on the comparison, access is granted or denied.

Claims

1. A system for controlling individual access at an airport, including:

an access card having machine readable information of an encoded biometric characteristic;

an access control terminal including;

a reader for reading the encoded biometric characteristic;

a biometric reader for making a contemporaneous biometric reading of the presenting individual; and

a processor for granting or denying access by comparing the read encoded biometric reading with the presenting individual biometric reading.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a PIN input device for allowing input of a PIN by the presenting individual;

wherein the machine readable information includes an encoded PIN, the reader for reading the encoded PIN and the processor compares the read encoded PIN with the presenting individual PIN input to grant or deny access.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the access card having an access card number and the processor comparing the access card number to a blacklist and denying access if the access card number is on the blacklist.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the access card having a job identifier indicating a job classification of the presenting individual.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the access terminal associated with an access point having an access point number, the access point number indicating a numeric values of the clearance identifier permitted access at the associated access point.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the access card having a clearance identifier and the processor determining whether the clearance identifier allows access by the presenting individual.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the access card having a job identifier indicating a job classification of the presenting individual and the clearance indicator is derived from the job identifier.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the access card having a check value and the processor using the check value to determine whether the access card has been tampered with and denying access if determined tampering occurred.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the access card having a verification threshold for indicating a level of required matching for the comparison of the read encoded biometric reading with the presenting individual biometric reading.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the comparison of the read encoded biometric reading with the presenting individual biometric reading compares a plurality of read encoded biometric readings with a plurality of presenting individual biometric readings.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein if the presenting individual is denied access, the presented individual is not provided an indication of a specific validation criteria not met.

12. An access control terminal for controlling access at an access point, the access point having an associated access point number, the terminal comprising:

a reader for reading an encoded biometric characteristic, a PIN and a clearance number from an access card;

a PIN input device for allowing input of a PIN by an individual presenting the access card;

a biometric reader for making a contemporaneous biometric reading of the presenting individual; and

a processor for granting or denying access by comparing the read encoded biometric reading with the presenting individual biometric reading, the read encoded PIN with the presenting individual PIN input and the read encoded clearance number with the associated access point number.

13. A method for controlling entry to commercial transportation vehicles comprising the steps of:

taking a biometric reading of a passenger;

generating a boarding pass having the passenger'"'"'s biometric reading encoded thereon;

taking a contemporaneous biometric reading of each passenger presenting a boarding pass;

comparing the presented boarding pass encoded information to a contemporaneous input; and

granting and denying access based on the comparison.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the boarding pass for use with airplane boarding.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the boarding pass includes flight information.

16. The method of claim 13 wherein the boarding pass is a paper boarding pass.

17. A boarding pass for use in boarding a commercial vehicle, the boarding pass comprising:

commercial vehicle information including a time of departure for the commercial vehicle; and

a biometric reading of a passenger allocated the boarding pass;

whereby the biometric reading allows for a comparison of a contemporaneously made biometric reading of a potential passenger presenting the boarding pass and the biometric reading of the passenger allocated the boarding pass.

18. The boarding pass of claim 17 wherein the boarding pass for use with airplane boarding.

19. The boarding pass of claim 18 wherein the boarding pass includes flight information and the biometric template is a finger template.

20. The boarding pass of claim 19 wherein the boarding pass is a paper boarding pass.