SECURITY METHODS EMPLOYING DRIVERS LICENSES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
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Abstract
Driver'"'"'s licenses and other security documents include one or more machine-readable features, each conveying plural bits of information. These features are used in a variety of ways to increase security, and/or to enhance functionality. In one embodiment, data encoded on a driver'"'"'s license is used at airport check-in, to link to a state DMV database and obtain information by which the document, and its custodian, can be authenticated. In like fashion, a license can be used to authenticate a bearer and/or his/her age prior to the sale of alcohol or tobacco products. In other embodiments, different elements of a driver'"'"'s license (e.g., the substrate, photo, text data, and machine-readable data) are logically bound together (e.g., interlinked through payloads conveyed by different machine-readable features) as a deterrent against counterfeiting. Driver'"'"'s licenses can be similarly logically bound to personal checks and other documents. Many other arrangements are also disclosed.
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30 Claims
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18. An authentication method, said method being performed by execution of computer readable program code by a processor of a first computer system, said method comprising:
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reading machine-readable data from a driver'"'"'s license of a person checking in for air travel; determining based on the read data identity of a governmental authority that issued the license; forwarding at least some of the read data to a second computer system having access to data records compiled by said governmental authority and relating to said license; receiving back from said second computer system a data message generated by the second computer system based, at least in part, on the at least some of the read data forwarded by the first computer system, the data message including data retrieved from the data records of said governmental authority relating the person; and processing the received data message to determine if the data of the data message matches the data on the driver'"'"'s license. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An authentication system comprising:
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a reading apparatus to read machine-readable data from a driver'"'"'s license of a person checking in for air travel; a first processor-based computing apparatus coupled to the reading apparatus and configured to receive the read data; and a storage device coupled to the first computing apparatus, the storage device storing computer instructions that, when executed on the first processor-based computing apparatus, cause the first computing apparatus to; determine, based on the read data from the driver'"'"'s license, identity of a governmental authority that issued the license; forward at least some of the read data to a second computing apparatus having access to data records compiled by said governmental authority relating to said license; receive back from said second computing apparatus a data message generated by the second computing apparatus based, at least in part, on the at least some of the read data forwarded by the first computing apparatus, the generated data message including data retrieved from the data records of said governmental authority relating to the person; and processing the received data message to determine if the data of the data message matches the data on the driver'"'"'s license. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions that, when executed on a first processor-based computing apparatus, cause the first computing apparatus to:
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read machine-readable data from a driver'"'"'s license of a person checking in for air travel; determine, based on the read data, identity of a governmental authority that issued the license; forward at least some of the read data to a second computing apparatus having access to data records compiled by said governmental authority and relating to said license; receive back from said second computing apparatus a data message generated by the second computing apparatus based, at least in part, on the at least some of the read data forwarded by the first computing apparatus, the generated data message including data retrieved from the data records of said governmental authority relating to the person; and processing the received data message to determine if the data of the data message matches the data on the driver'"'"'s license. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
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