Identification card with delimited usage

• US 5,907,149 A
• Filed: 06/27/1994
• Issued: 05/25/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: L-1 Secure Credentialing, LLC (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Polaroid Corporation (PLR IP Holdings LLC)
• Inventors: Marckini, Eugene F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US08/266,977
• Time in Patent Office: 1,793 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/382.5, 235/454, 235/487
• US Class Current: 235/487
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 13/00 Voting apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention particularly provides an identification card and an access system for its use. The identification card has recorded thereon visually-readable bearer information and encoded machine-readable data. The encoded machine-readable data includes encoded data representative of a personal identifier of the bearer and encoded data representative of at least one event or transaction. When used in the access system, the identification card is scanned by an information processing apparatus. When the bearer of the identification card presents a personal identifier to the information processing apparatus, the presented personal identifier is analyzed and compared with the encoded personal identifier data. If there is an acceptable correlation between the presented personal information and the encoded personal identifier data, and if there is a determination that access would not exceed a predetermined number of permissible occurrences, access is effected. Subsequent to the provision of such access, or contemporaneously with presentment, the encoded machine-readable data is altered to record the provision of such access.

Claims

1. An access system for determining access to an event or transaction for a bearer of a data holding article, the bearer having a personal identifier, access to the event or transaction being dependent on the satisfaction of predetermined bearer identification requirements and the existence of prior occurrences, the method employing the data holding article and an information processing apparatus;

the method comprising the steps of

providing a data holding article, the data holding article having recorded thereon machine-readable data, the machine-readable data including encoded data representative of a bearer'"'"'s personal identifier, the machine-readable data including encoded data representative of at least one event or transaction, each event or transaction having a predetermined number of permissible occurrences;

providing information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus having means for reading the encoded event-related or transactional data, the information processing apparatus having means for reading the encoded personal identifier data, the information processing apparatus having input means for receiving a personal identifier presented by the bearer, the presented personal identifier being correspondent with the encoded personal identifier data, the information processing apparatus having means for computing correlation between the encoded personal identifier data and the presented personal identifier;

presenting the data holding article to the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus reading the encoded personal identifier data, the information processing apparatus reading the encoded event-related or transactional data for a determination of prior occurrences;

presenting the bearer'"'"'s personal identifier to the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus computing the correlation between the presented personal identifier and the encoded personal identifier data for a determination of bearer identity; and

a) the information processing apparatus effecting a bar to the event or transaction when the correlation between the presented personal identifier and the encoded personal identifier data is inconsistent with the predetermined bearer identification requirements or when there is a determination that access would exceed the predetermined number of permissible occurrences, and

b) the information processing apparatus effecting access to the event or transaction when the correlation between the presented personal identifier and the encoded personal identifier is consistent with the predetermined bearer identification requirements and when there is a determination of prior events or transactions within the predetermined number of permissible occurrences, the information processing apparatus altering the data holding article to record the access, the recordation being machine-readable by the information processing apparatus for the determination of prior occurrences.

2. The access system of claim 1, wherein the predetermined number of permissible occurrences for each event or transaction is 1, whereby the access system is useful for effecting voting access.

3. The access system of claim 1, wherein the personal identifier is biometric.

4. The access system of claim 3, wherein the encoded biometric data representative of an identifying biometric feature of the bearer comprises encoded fingerprint information.

5. The access system of claim 3, wherein the personal identifier is a fingerprint.

6. The access system of claim 5, wherein the alteration of the data holding card is accomplished by altering the encoded event-related or transactional data representative of the event or transaction.

7. The access system of claim 6, wherein the encoded event-related or transactional data is altered by destroying the event-related or transactional data representative of the event or transaction.

8. The access system of claim 1, wherein the alteration of the data holding card is accomplished by altering the encoded event-related or transactional data representative of the event or transaction.