MEDIA PASSPORT SYSTEM

• US 20090243800A1
• Filed: 03/29/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Klein, Craig A., Krick, Frank, Haustein, Nils, Winarski, Daniel J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,098,137 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/88 Detecting or preventing theft or loss
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2417 having a radio frequency identification chip
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2462 Asset location systems combined with EAS inventory, tracking, logistic G06Q10/00; entrance control systems G07C9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/10 using a centralized architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/47 using RFID associated with sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/823 where the data is sent when the measured values exceed a threshold, e.g. sending an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

A media passport system including a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder attached to a removable medium a plurality of RFID readers installed in rooms, wherein each RFID reader has a unique identification (ID), and a security server connected to the plurality of RFID readers via a network. The security server hosts a zone-table including a unique ID information of the removable medium, and a zone information determined as a subset of the unique IDs of the plurality of RFID readers. Based on this the security server sends an alarm when a removable medium is transported inside or outside a zone.

Claims

1. A media passport system, comprising:

a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder attached to a removable medium;

a plurality of RFID readers installed in rooms, wherein each RFID reader has a unique identification (ID); and

a security server connected to the plurality of RFID readers via a network,

wherein the security server hosts a zone-table comprising;

a unique ID information of the removable medium; and

a zone information determined as a subset of the unique IDs of the plurality of RFID readers,

wherein the RFID transponder transmits a unique ID of the removable medium to an RFID reader in the plurality of RFID readers when the RFID transponder passes by the RFID reader,

wherein the RFID reader transmits the unique ID of the removable medium and the unique ID of the RFID reader to the security server,

wherein the security server determines the RFID reader that receives the unique ID of the removable medium,

wherein the security server determines a zone where the RFID reader is located,

wherein the security server checks the zone-table to determine whether the unique ID of the removable medium is allowed in the zone where the RFID reader is located,

wherein the unique ID of the removable medium is allowed in the zone where the RFID reader is located, if the unique ID information of the removable medium, and the zone information where the RFID reader that received the unique ID of the removable medium is located are on a same row of the zone-table, and

wherein the security server sounds an alarm if the unique ID of the removable medium is not allowed in the zone where the RFID reader is located.