Admission managing system

• US 5,471,203 A
• Filed: 02/01/1995
• Issued: 11/28/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Kenji, Kadonaga, Tooru, Sasaki, Michiyuki, Ohba, Toshimitsu, Morosawa, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Bowler, Alyssa H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rinehart, Mark H.
• Application Number:
  US08/383,604
• Time in Patent Office: 300 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.31, 340/825.32, 340/825.34, 340/572, 340/825.54, 340/825.49, 340/825.65, 340/825.72, 235/375, 235/376, 235/377, 235/382, 235/382.5, 371/67.1, 371/69.1
• US Class Current: 340/5.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence

Abstract

An admission managing system manages admission of a card holder of an integrated circuit card which has a part for operating by a power induced by an external command, a memory for storing identification information and a part for at least communicating in a non-contact manner including reception of the command and transmission of the identification information. The admission managing system includes a gate for admitting the card holder of the integrated circuit card when opened, a first part for transmitting the command and for receiving the identification information received from the integrated circuit card in response to the command, a second part for storing identification information of authorized card holders to be admitted, a third part for opening the gate when the identification information received by the first part from the integrated circuit card is identical to one of the identification information stored in the second part, and a fourth part for outputting a warning to the card holder if a number of times the same identification information is received by the first part from the integrated circuit card exceeds a predetermined value.

Claims

1. An admission managing system for admitting a card holder of an integrated circuit card which has operating means, including a battery, for operating the integrated circuit card, means for receiving an external command to activate said operating means, a memory storing identification information, and means for at least communicating in a non-contact manner including reception of the command and transmission of the identification information, said admission managing system comprising:

a gate admitting the card holder of the integrated circuit card when opened;

first means for transmitting the external command to the integrated circuit card to activate said operating means and for receiving the identification information received from the integrated circuit card in response to the command;

second means, coupled to said first means, for storing identification information of authorized card holders to be admitted;

third means, coupled to said first and second means and to said gate, for comparing the identification information received from the integrated circuit card with identification information of each authorized card holder stored in said second means and opening said gate when the identification information received by said first means from the integrated circuit card is identical to one of the identification information stored in said second means; and

fourth means, coupled to said first and third means, for determining number of times the same identification information is received by said third means from said first means and outputting a warning to the card holder if the number of times the same identification information is consecutively received by said first means from the integrated circuit card exceeds a predetermined value so as to avoid repeated transmission of the identification information from the integrated circuit card exceeding a certain time, so that an unnecessary power consumption of the battery of said operating means of the integrated circuit card is prevented.

2. The admission managing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication between said first means and the integrated circuit card uses a medium which is selected from a group consisting of electromagnetic waves, high-frequency waves, radio frequency waves, light and electrostatic coupling.

3. The admission managing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fourth means includes indicating means for visually warning the card holder.

4. The admission managing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fourth means includes means for warning the card holder by sound.

5. The admission managing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fourth means includes counter means for counting the number of times the same identification information is received by said first means from the integrated circuit card, and means for judging whether or not the number of times counted by said counter means exceeds the predetermined value.

6. The admission managing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fourth means includes timer means for timing a predetermined time from a time when the identification information is first received by said first means from the integrated circuit card, and means for disregarding the same ID information received by said first means if the same ID information is received for over the predetermined time.

7. The admission managing system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said fourth means includes means for stopping the output of the warning if said first means receives the same ID information for over the predetermined time timed by said timer means.

8. The admission managing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fourth means includes timer means for timing a predetermined time from a time when the identification information is first received by said first means from the integrated circuit card, and means for controlling said third means to automatically close said gate after the predetermined time is timed by said timer means.

9. The admission managing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fourth means includes timer means for timing a predetermined time from a time when said third means opens said gate, and means for controlling said third means to automatically close said gate after the predetermined time is timed by said timer means.

10. An admission managing system for admitting a card holder of an integrated circuit card which has operating means, including a battery, for operating the integrated circuit card, means for receiving an external command to activate said operating means, a memory storing identification information, and means for at least communicating in a non-contact manner including reception of the command and transmission of the identification information, said admission managing system comprising:

first means for transmitting the external command to the integrated circuit card to activate said operating means and for receiving the identification information received from the integrated circuit card in response to the command;

second means, coupled to said first means, for storing identification information of authorized card holders to be admitted;

third means, coupled to said first and second means and to said gate, for comparing the identification information received from the integrated circuit card with identification information of each authorized card holder stored in said second means; and

fourth means, coupled to said first and third means, for determining a number of times the same identification information is consecutively received by said third means from said first means and outputting a warning to the card holder if the number of times the same identification information is consecutively received by said first means from the integrated circuit card exceeds a predetermined value so as to avoid repeated transmission of the identification information from the integrated circuit card exceeding a certain time, so that an unnecessary power consumption of the battery of said operating means of the integrated circuit card is prevented.