Electronic identification tag

• US 6,693,544 B1
• Filed: 01/31/2001
• Issued: 02/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Hebbecker, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): MULLEN, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US09/762,041
• Time in Patent Office: 1,112 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/5.2, 340/5.8, 235/375, 235/380, 235/487, 705/2, 705/3, 283/72, 283/74-78, 406/25
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/02 characterised by the selection of materials, e.g. to avoid wear during transport through the machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/077 Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07769 the further communication means being a galvanic interface, e.g. hybrid or mixed smart cards having a contact and a non-contact interface
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/08 using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means

Abstract

An electronic identification tag or card is indicated, which may be equipped with a rupture joint that has a vertical, diagonal, undulated, zigzag, meander-shaped or other type of design or pattern. The electronic identification tag or card may have two sections which may have a mirror-inverted design, and, in which, the same data may stored in the same manner. Integrated, embedded, or implanted memory or microprocessor chips may have the same structure, and one section of the identification tag or card is provided with punched holes for a necklace. Moreover, visually readable data, such as a personal identification number (PKZ), blood type (A Rh+), a nation and name (NN), may be introduced into is both sections. The electronic identification tag or card can be made of a very resistant plastic, glass, ceramic, or a similar material, the particular data carrier or memory device being embedded with or without intelligence in the form of a chip, magnetic strip or hologram. The identification tag or card is equipped to be able to be connected via contacts or on a wireless basis to a data processing system or contactless read devices. The memory or microprocessor structure permits a very flexible directory structure. Thus, in the main memory directory, for example, one can store global card data, such as personal identification numbers (PKZ), nation, name (NN), and blood type (A Rh+). Moreover, in the data fields of the main directory, one can store access authorizations, and, in the subdirectories, for example, the training or special skills of a person wearing this tag.

Claims

1. An electronic identification apparatus for persons having combatant status, comprising:

at least one of an electronic identification tag and an electronic identification card, the at least one of the electronic identification tag and the electronic identification card being made of a first part and a second part of resistant material, the resistant material being resistant to an external influence, the first and second parts being separable from each other at a rupture joint, the first part having a first front side and a first back side, the second part having a second front side and a second back side, at least one of the first and second parts having a punched necklace hole; and

at least one of an electronic memory chip, a microprocessor chip and a logic chip configured to store at least non-visual data, at least one of the first part and the second part including the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip, an at least partial amount of the non-visual data stored on the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip being made visually readable on at least one of the first part and the second part.

2. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least non-visual data stored on the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip is configured to be at least one of read contactlessly, written contactlessly, read via a contact on the at least one of the electronic identification tag and the electronic identification card, written via the contact on the at least one of the electronic identification tag and the electronic identification card, read via a contact on the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip and written on the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip.

3. The apparatus as recited in claim 2, further comprising an antenna mounted on at least one of the first and second parts for at least one of contactless reading, erasing and writing.

4. The apparatus as recited in claim 3, further comprising a transmitter and a receiver on at least one of the first and second parts for transmitting and receiving data.

5. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the rupture joint is configured in at least one of vertical shape, horizontal shape, diagonal shape, undulated shape, zigzag shape and meander shape.

6. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least partial amount of the non-visual data stored on the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip being made visually readable as at least one of machine-readable relief embossing, machine-readable relief debossing and laser-based labeling, on at least one of the first front side, the first back side, the second front side and the second back side.

7. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the first part has a first design, the second part has a second design, the second design being a mirror-inversion of the first design, the first and second parts including at least one of identically structured memory and identically structured microprocessor chips.

8. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one of the electronic identification tag and the electronic identification card is made from at least one of resistant plastic, glass, and ceramic;

and further comprising one of a data carrier and a memory device for storing the non-visual data, the one of the data carrier and the memory device being one of embedded, integrated and implanted in at least one of the first part and the second part via one of the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip, an optically encodeable strip, a magnetically encodeable strip and a hologram.

9. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, further comprising a main directory for storing at least one of global card data, personal identification number, nation information, name information and blood type information, the main directory being situated on at least one of the first part and the second part, the main directory having a subdirectory to store at least one of a specialized skill and individual training data, the main directory having a special data field to control an access condition, of the main directory, the subdirectory being linked via the access condition to at least one of the special data field and to additional memory areas for applications.

10. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, further comprising an operating system, a transport protocol, and one of a security system and a security procedure, for control and transfer, stored in a memory ROM, the memory ROM being associated with the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip;

and further comprising an application area including a main memory directory, a subdirectory, a data field, and an access condition, the application area being stored in one of a read/write memory and an EEPROM, the one of the read/write memory and the EEPROM being associated with the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip.

11. The apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein the read/write memory includes memory areas assigned to specific applications.

12. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, further comprising at least one of a data field, an application area and a subdirectory, associated with the at least one of the electronic memory chip, the microprocessor chip and the logic chip, each of the at least one of the data field, the application area and the subdirectory having access conditions and being configured to be at least one of read via contacts, read contactlessly, erased via contacts, erased contactlessly, transcribed via contacts and transcribed contactlessly and being configured to store the non-visual data.

13. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the resistant material is at least one of plastic, ceramic, and glass.

14. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the resistant material is laminated glass.