PROCESS FOR DETERRING THE THEFT OF NOTES, NOTE, CORRESPONDING INACTIVATION DEVICE AND ACTIVATION DEVICE

• US 20080100449A1
• Filed: 10/25/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Banks And Acquirers International Holding
• Original Assignee: Compagnie Industrielle et Financiere D'Ingenierie "Ingenico"
• Inventors: Naccache, David
• Granted Patent: US 7,800,502 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3415 Cards acting autonomously as pay-media
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3823 combining multiple encryption tools for a transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 7/01 Testing electronic circuits therein
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/08 by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means without personal verification means G07F7/02
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1016 Devices or methods for securing the PIN and other transaction-data, e.g. by encryption arrangements for secret communication, see H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/12 Card verification
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/009 the reader being an RFID reader
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/84 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3226 using a predetermined code, e.g. password, passphrase or PIN network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using passwords in a packet data network H04L63/083
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3236 using cryptographic hash functions

Abstract

A process is provided for deterring the theft of notes equipped with a radio-tag type authenticity check element, capable of returning an item of authenticity information, in response to an authentication request emitted by a check device. Such a process includes the following steps: transmission to the check element of at least one inactivation code, rendering the note invalid; storage and/or transport of the invalid note; and reactivation of the check element, using at least one activation code, depending on the inactivation code, rendering the note valid.

Claims

1. Process for deterring the theft of notes equipped with a radio-tag type authenticity check element, capable of returning an item of authenticity information, in response to an authentication request emitted by a check device, wherein said process comprises the following steps:

transmission to said check element of at least one inactivation request, rendering the note invalid;

delivery by said note of at least one activation code or at least one item of information permitting said activation code to be reconstructed;

secured transmission of at least said one activation code or at least said one information permitting said activation code to be reconstructed, to an activation device;

storage and/or transport of said invalid note;

re-activation of said check element by said activation device, using at least said one activation code, rendering said note valid.

2. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 1, wherein said secured transmission step is carried out via Internet.

3. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 1, wherein said inactivation request comprises at least one inactivation code, stored by said note upon receipt of said inactivation request, and wherein said activation code is a function of said inactivation code.

4. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 1, wherein said activation and/or inactivation codes are obtained using an algorithm belonging to the group comprising:

numbering algorithms;

MAC type algorithms;

hash algorithms.

5. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 1, wherein said notes may adopt at least two states belonging to the group comprising:

an active state, in which a note is capable of returning an item of authenticity information, in response to an authentication request;

an inactive state, in which a note does not return a response, following an authentication request, or delivers a non-authenticity response.

6. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 5, wherein, when said note is in the active state, it is capable of responding to at least one request belonging to the group comprising:

an authentication request;

an inactivation request.

7. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 5, when said note equipped with said check element is in the active state and receives an inactivation request, wherein said process comprises an inhibition step, by said check element, of the capacity to respond to an authentication request, leading to the switching of said note to the inactive state.

8. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 6, when said note equipped with said check element is in the active state and receives an inactivation request, wherein said process comprises an inhibition step, by said check element, of the capacity to respond to an authentication request, leading to the switching of said note to the inactive state.

9. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 5, wherein, when said note is in the inactive state and receives an activation request, comprising at least one activation code, the process comprises the following steps:

verification of the validity of the activation code received depending on said activation code delivered by said note and/or of said inactivation code, and delivery of an item of validity information, either positive or negative, for the reactivation;

switching of said note to the active state, if said validity information is positive.

10. Process for deterring the theft of notes of claim 6, wherein, when said note is in the inactive state and receives an activation request, comprising at least one activation code, the process comprises the following steps:

verification of the validity of the activation code received depending on said activation code delivered by said note and/or of said inactivation code, and delivery of an item of validity information, either positive or negative, for the reactivation;

switching of said note to the active state, if said validity information is positive.

11. Note equipped with a radio-tag type authenticity check element, capable of returning an item of authenticity information, in response to an authentication request emitted by a check device, wherein said check element comprises:

inactivation means, in response to an inactivation request, rendering said note invalid;

means of delivery of at least one activation code or at least one item of information permitting said activation code to be reconstructed;

re-activation means, using at least one activation code, rendering said note valid.

12. Inactivation device for a radio-tag type authenticity check element equipping a note, capable of returning an item of authenticity information, in response to an authentication request emitted by a check device, wherein said check element comprises:

inactivation means, in response to an inactivation request, rendering said note invalid;

means of delivery of at least one activation code or at least one item of information permitting said activation code to be reconstructed;

re-activation means, using at least one activation code, rendering said note valid and wherein said inactivation device comprises;

means for transmitting to said check element at least one inactivation request, rendering the note invalid;

means of storing at least one activation code or at least one item of information permitting said activation code to be reconstructed, delivered by said note, for the re-activation of said check element.

13. Inactivation device of claim 12, wherein the device comprises means of transmitting to at least one activation device the activation code, capable of rendering the note valid.

14. Activation device for a radio-tag type authenticity check element equipping a note, capable of returning an item of authenticity information, in response to an authentication request emitted by a check device, wherein said check element comprises:

inactivation means, in response to an inactivation request, rendering said note invalid;

means of delivery of at least one activation code or at least one item of information permitting said activation code to be reconstructed;

re-activation means, using at least one activation code, rendering said note valid and wherein said activation device comprises;

means of receiving at least one activation code or at least one item of information permitting said activation code to be reconstructed, delivered by said note;

means for transmitting to said check element at least one activation code, rendering the note valid.