METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESS AUTHENTICATION USING MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20120169462A1
• Filed: 12/23/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: KT Corporation
• Inventors: PARK, Jae-Min, MIN, Yong-Ki, KYE, Dong-Hoon
• Granted Patent: US 9,165,415 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.65
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00174 Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys mechanical locks with electric permutation E05B49/00; arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00857 where the code of the data carrier can be programmed
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/20 involving the use of a pass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0492 by using a location-limited connection, e.g. near-field communication or limited proximity of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

An access authentication method and apparatus in which access authentication is performed using positional data associated with access information data.

Claims

1. A user terminal that performs access authentication through communication with an access authentication system connected to an access reader, comprising:

a smart card access authentication data and positional data associated with the access authentication data;

a positional data obtaining device configured to obtain current positional data of the user terminal; and

a controller configured to activate the access authentication data associated with the positional data that corresponds to the current positional data,

wherein the smart card provides the activated access authentication data to the access reader in response to a radio frequency (RF) signal from the access reader to request the access authentication.

2. The user terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a reader configured to read a tag attached to an access authentication card and obtain from the tag the access authentication data; and

an inputting device configured to input the positional data,

wherein the controller associates the access authentication data with the inputted positional data.

3. The user terminal of claim 2, wherein the smart card comprises

a non-secured storage section and a secured storage section,

wherein the access authentication data and the positional data are stored in the secured storage section,

wherein the controller moves the access authentication data associated with the positional data that corresponds to the obtained current positional data to the non-secured storage section.

4. The user terminal of claim 3, wherein the secured storage section is not accessible by the access reader.

5. The user terminal of claim 1, wherein the positional data obtaining device obtains the current positional data from a positional data providing server in response to the RF signal from the access reader.

6. The user terminal of claim 1, wherein if the access authentication data associated with the positional data that corresponds to the current positional data is not stored in the smart card, the controller transmits a request for providing access authentication data having terminal data or user data to the access authentication system to obtain the access authentication data and associates the access authentication data with the current positional data and storing the associated data in the smart card.

7. A method of performing an access authentication in a user terminal through communication with an access authentication system connected to an access reader, comprising:

obtaining current positional data of the user terminal in response to receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal from the access reader;

activating the access authentication data associated with positional data that corresponds to the current positional data among a plurality of access authentication data; and

requesting the access authentication by providing the activated access authentication data to the access reader.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the plurality of access authentication data is stored in a smart card.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the smart card comprises a non-secured storage section and a secured storage section,

wherein the access authentication data and the positional data are stored in the secured storage section,

wherein the activating the access authentication data comprises activating the access authentication data associated with the positional data that corresponds to the obtained current positional data by moving the access authentication data associated with the positional data that corresponds to the obtained current positional data to the non-secured storage section.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the user terminal comprises a tag reader, and

wherein the method further comprises:

prior to obtaining the current positional data of the user terminal, obtaining the access authentication data by reading a tag attached to an access authentication card through the tag reader;

receiving the positional data associated with access authentication data; and

associating the access authentication data with the received positional data and storing the associated data in the smart card.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the obtaining current positional data of the user terminal comprises obtaining the current positional data from a positional data providing server in response to receiving the RF signal from the access reader.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the activating the access authentication data comprises:

if the access authentication data associated with positional data that corresponds to the current positional data is not stored in the smart card, transmitting a request for providing access authentication data having terminal data or user data to the access authentication system to obtain the access authentication data, and

associating the access authentication data with the current positional data and storing the associated data in the smart card.

13. An access authentication device comprising:

a memory that stores first access authentication data, first positional data associated with the first access authentication data, second access authentication data, and second positional data associated with the second authentication data; and

a processor that determines a current position of the access authentication device, determines whether one of the first position data and the second position data corresponds to the current position, selects one of the first access authentication data and the second access authentication data associated with the one of the first position data and the second position data that corresponds to the current position, and controls the authentication device to perform access authentication using the selected one of the first access authentication data and the second access authentication.

14. The access authentication device of claim 13, wherein the first positional data comprises first global positioning system (GPS) data and the second positional data comprises second GPS data.

15. The access authentication device of claim 14, wherein the first GPS data comprises a first GPS position of a first authentication system and the second GPS data comprises a second GPS position of a second authentication system.

16. The access authentication device of claim 15, further comprising a reader that reads the first access authentication data from a first radio frequency identification (RFID) tag of a first identification (ID) card and reads the second access authentication data from a second RFID tag of a second ID card,

wherein the processor stores in the memory the first access authentication data and the second access authentication data read by the reader.