SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AN INDIVIDUAL, A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AN INDIVIDUAL OR A BUSINESS METHOD

• US 20110035798A1
• Filed: 10/20/2010
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Koyama, Jun, Yamazaki, Shunpei
• Application Number:
  US12/908,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20110035798A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/19
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/13 Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231

Abstract

An individual may be identified by using a portable communication device. Biological information of the user is input into the communication device. The inputted biological information of the user is checked with reference biological information previously stored in the portable communication device. The portable communication device is connected to the Internet after the inputted biological information of the user and the reference biological information have matched. Then information that the inputted biological information of the user and the reference biological information have matched is transmitted to a server from the portable communication device.

Claims

1. A portable communication device,

wherein the portable communication device comprises:

a switch for turning on the portable communication device;

a nonvolatile memory for storing at least one reference biological information of a client using the portable communication device, the at least one stored biological information being stored in the nonvolatile memory prior to turning on the portable communication device;

a sensor for reading at least one biological information of the client after using the switch to turn on the portable communication device;

a checking circuit for performing an identification process to confirm an identity of the client by checking the at least one read biological information with the ate least one stored biological information, wherein the checking circuit is configured to complete an identification of the client if a read biological information matches with the at least one stored reference biological information; and

a transmitting circuit for transmitting information that the identification of the client is completed and the identity of the client is confirmed to an opposite end,

wherein the portable communication device is configured to complete the identification of the client without a necessity of receiving additional data; and

wherein the portable communication device is configured so as to be able to rewrite the at least one stored biological information.

2. A portable communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the portable communication device is configured so as to be able to rewrite the at least one stored biological information after completion of the identification of the client has been sent to the opposite end.

3. A portable communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the portable communication device is configured to allow or forbid rewriting of the at least one stored biological information according to a validity of a personal information number sent to the opposite end after having sent information that the identification of the client is completed to the opposite end.

4. A portable communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the portable communication device is configured to send information necessary to an authorization of a transaction with a final end to an opposite end after completion of the identification of the client.

5. A portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein the portable communication device is chosen among a personal computer and a portable telephone.

6. A portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein transmission of the information is achieved through internet.

7. A portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one biological information of the client is chosen among fingerprint, palm print and voice print.

8. A method for identifying a client, said method comprising the steps of:

turning on a portable communication device;

reading at least one biological information of a client by a sensor integrated in the portable communication device;

performing an identification process by a checking circuit in the portable communication device to confirm the identity of the client by checking the at least one read biological information with at least one stored reference biological information of the client, the stored reference biological information being stored in a nonvolatile memory in the portable communication device prior to turning on the portable communication device;

using the checking circuit to complete the identification of the client if the read biological information matches with the stored reference biological information;

transmitting information that the identification of the client is completed and the identity of the client is confirmed from the portable communication device to an opposite end; and

rewriting the at least one biological information;

wherein completion of the identification of the client without is performed without reception of additional data.

9. A method for identifying a client according to claim 8,

wherein the step of rewriting the at least one biological information is performed after information of completion of the identification of the client has been sent to the opposite end.

10. A method for identifying a client according to claim 8,

wherein the step of rewriting the at least one biological information is allowed or forbidden according to a validity of a personal information number sent to the opposite end after having sent information that the identification of the client is completed to the opposite end.

11. A method for identifying a client according to claim 8, further comprising the step of sending information necessary to an authorization of a transaction with a final end to an opposite end after completion of the identification of the client.

12. A method for identifying a client according to claim 8, wherein the portable communication device is chosen among a personal computer and a portable telephone.

13. A method for identifying a client according to claim 8, wherein transmission of the information is achieved through internet.

14. A method for identifying a client according to claim 8, wherein the at least one biological information of the client is chosen among fingerprint, palm print and voice print.

15. A server,

wherein the server is configured to receive information from an opposite end that an identification of a client by at least a biological information is completed;

and

wherein the server is configured to authorize rewriting of the biological information when a personal identification number sent by the opposite end matches with a personal identification number stored at the server.

16. The server according to claim 15,

wherein the server is configured to transmit the information that the identification has been completed to a final end of transaction, thereby allowing the final end to start a transaction with the opposite end.

17. An identification method comprising the steps of:

reception by a server of an information sent by an opposite end that an identification of a client by at least a biological information has been completed; and

authorization by the server for the opposite end to rewrite the biological information when a personal identification number sent by the opposite end matches with a personal identification number stored in the server.

18. The identification method according to claim 17, further comprising the steps of:

transmission, by the server and to a final end, that the identification of the client has been performed, thereby allowing the final end to start a transaction with the opposite end.