NETWORK AND METHOD FOR DATA INPUT, STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

• US 20110184994A1
• Filed: 07/19/2010
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SPQKumar, Inc.
• Original Assignee: SPQKumar, Inc.
• Inventors: Sin, Wai-Cheong Daniel, Kumar, Arjun Prakash
• Granted Patent: US 8,469,279 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/072 the record carrier comprising a plurality of integrated circuit chips
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07732 the record carrier having a housing or construction similar to well-known portable memory devices, such as SD cards, USB or memory sticks housings for electrical equipment in general, see H05K5/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A personal electronic carrier device (PECD) comprising means for receiving PECD data; means for storing PECD data; means for transmitting PECD data directly or indirectly PECD; and operating software means to effect the receiving, storing and transmitting the PECD data. The PECD is part of a network having a plurality of data stations and preferably a main data base. The PECD data is selected from the group consisting of medical, educational and identification data. The networks provide for the efficacious and convenient handling of data.

Claims

1. A personal electronic carrier device (PECD) comprising

means for receiving PECD data;

means for storing PECD data;

means for transmitting PECD data directly or indirectly; and

operating software means to effect said receiving, storing and transmitting said PECD data.

2. A PECD as claimed in claim 1 further comprising

means of storing biometric information;

means of verifying biometric information;

means of powering a biometric identification device;

operating software means to effect said displaying, receiving, storing and transmitting said PECD data and;

embedded software or hardware to protect the PECD from malicious software.

3. A PECD as claimed in claim 1 having a storage memory of at least 1 MB.

4. A PECD as claimed in claim 1 having a storage memory of at least 8 GB.

5. A PECD as claimed in claim 1 wherein said PECD data is received and transmitted wirelessly.

6. A PECD as claimed in claim 1 comprising a smartcard or USB stick.

7. A PECD as claimed in claim 1 comprising a planar body having a portion defining an aperture and a memory chip comprising

means for receiving PECD data;

means for storing PECD data;

means for transmitting PECD data directly or indirectly; and

operating software means to effect said receiving, storing and transmitting said PECD data retained within said aperture in coplanar alignment with said planar body.

8. A PECD as claimed in claim 7 wherein said memory chip further comprises

means of storing biometric information;

means of verifying biometric information;

means of powering a biometric identification device;

operating software means to effect said displaying, receiving, storing and transmitting said PECD data and;

embedded software or hardware to protect the PECD from malicious software.

9. A PECD as claimed in claim 7 wherein said memory chip is rotatably retained within said aperture.

10. A PECD as claimed in claim 9 comprising an elongate memory chip retaining member located within said planar body and said memory chip.

11. A PECD as claimed in claim 10 wherein said retaining member is formed of a metal, a plastics material or carbon fiber.

12. A PECD as claimed in claim 9 comprising a resiliently flexible member located within said planar body and said memory chip whereby after displacement of said memory chip out of coplanar alignment with said planar body under the action of a displacing force, said resiliently flexible member effects return of said memory chip to said coplanar alignment when said displacing force is removed.

13. A PECD as claimed in claim 12 wherein said resiliently flexible member is in the form of an elongate member selected from a thread, line, fiber and the like and formed of rubber, carbon fibre, or a plastics material.

14. A PECD as claimed in claim 7 wherein said planar body has a thickness of less than 2.5 mm.

15. A data network for receiving, storing and transmitting client data comprising

(a) a PECD as claimed in claim 1;

and

(b) at least one receiving, storing and transmitting data station comprising

a first data station body having means for receiving station data from the group consisting of said PECD, a main database, a client, and a second or more data stations;

means for storing said station data;

means for transmitting station data; and

operating software means to effect said receiving, storing and transmitting said station data in direct or indirect communication with said PECD.

17. A data network as claimed in claim 15 comprising a plurality of said data stations.

18. A data network as claimed in claim 15 further comprising a main data database comprising

means for receiving main data from the group consisting of said PECD, a main database, a client, and a second or more data stations;

means for storing main data;

means for transmitting main data;

operating software means to operably effect directly or indirectly said receiving, storing and transmitting said main data to and from said PECD and said data station; and

wherein said data station is in direct or indirect communication with said main database.

19. A network as claimed in claim 15 wherein said data station comprises means for creating a new data file for said client.

20. A network as claimed in claim 19 wherein said data station comprises means for transmitting said new data file to said PECD, one or more other data stations and said main database.

21. A internetwork as claimed in claim 15 wherein said data station comprises means for transmitting said new data file to said PECD, one or more other data stations and said main databases.

27. A PECD as claimed in claim 1 wherein said PECD data is selected from the group consisting of medical, educational, personal identification data and financial data.

28. A network as claimed in claim 15 wherein said PECD data, client data and main data is selected from the group consisting of medical, educational, identification and financial data.

16. A data network for receiving, storing and transmitting client data comprising

(a) a PECD as hereinabove defined;

and

(b) at least one receiving, storing and transmitting data station comprising

means for receiving station data;

means for storing station data;

means for transmitting station data;

means for storing biometric data;

operating software means to effect said displaying, receiving, storing and transmitting said station data in direct or indirect communication with said PECD; and

embedded software or hardware to protect the PECD from malicious software.

22. A method for receiving, storing and transmitting client data in at least one data station and a personal electronic carrier device (PECD) of a network or between networks, said method comprising

feeding client data into said data station;

storing said client data in said data station;

transmitting said client data to said PECD; and

storing said client data in said PECD.

24. A method as claimed in claim 22 comprising feeding and storing said client data to a main database of said network or between networks.

25. A method as claimed in claim 22 comprising retrieving and transmitting stored client data to at least one of said data station and said PECD.

26. A method as claimed in claim 22 comprising feeding client data into a plurality of data stations;

said method comprising

feeding client data into said data station;

storing said client data in said data station;

transmitting said client data to said PECD; and

storing said client data in said PECD.

23. A method for receiving, storing, displaying and transmitting client data in at least one data station and a personal electronic carrier device (PECD) of a network or between networks, said method comprising

feeding client data into said data station;

storing said client data in said data station;

transmitting said client data to said PECD;

storing said client data in said PECD; and

storing said client biometric data in said PECD.