IC card reader/writer apparatus

• US 4,709,136 A
• Filed: 06/03/1986
• Issued: 11/24/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toppan Moore Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Toppan Moore Company Limited
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US06/870,102
• Time in Patent Office: 539 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/380
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0034 the connector being capable of simultaneously receiving a plurality of cards in the same insertion slot
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0073 having multiple insertion slots, the respective slots suited for the same or different card form factors
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/2295 Parent-child type, e.g. where parent has control on child rights
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/08 by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means without personal verification means G07F7/02
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/12 Card verification
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/122 Online card verification
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

An IC card reader/writer apparatus includes at least two contactors in which IC cards are inserted, respectively, card detecting means for detecting that at least two IC cards have been loaded, and collating means for verifying that correct cipher codes of the two IC cards coincide with those inputted externally, respectively, wherein access to the contents stored in the IC cards is allowed only when the collation results in coincidence.

Claims

1. An IC card reader apparatus in which information stored in IC cards placed in said apparatus is allowed to be read out by inputting cipher codes specific to said IC cards, comprising:

at least two card inserting ports for receiving IC cards, respectively;

means for detecting the insertion of said IC cards in said ports;

means for determining whether said insertion detecting means has detected the presence of said IC cards at least at said two inserting ports;

collating means for verifying whether cipher codes allocated to said two IC cards placed in said inserting ports coincide with the inputted cipher codes, respectively; and

means for permitting information to be read out from said IC cards only when said determining means has confirmed the presence of said IC cards at least at said two inserting ports and when the cipher codes of said two IC cards whose presence at said two inserting ports has been confirmed coincide with said inputted cipher codes, respectively.

2. An IC card reader and writer apparatus in which information stored in IC cards placed in said apparatus is allowed to be read out or information is allowed to be stored in said IC cards placed in said apparatus by inputting cipher codes specific to said IC cards, respectively, comprising:

at least two card inserting ports for receiving said IC cards, respectively;

means for detecting the insertion of said IC cards in said ports;

means for determining whether said insertion detecting means has detected the presence of said IC cards at least at said two inserting ports;

collating means for verifying whether the cipher codes allocated to said two IC cards placed in said inserting ports coincide with said inputted cipher codes, respectively; and

means for permitting information to be read out from or written in said IC cards only when said determining means has confirmed the presence of said IC cards at least at said two inserting ports, respectively, and when the cipher codes of said two IC cards whose presence at said two inserting ports has been confirmed coincide with said inputted cipher codes, respectively.