Authentic person identification

• US 6,928,278 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2001
• Issued: 08/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Konami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Konami Corporation
• Inventors: Shimomura, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): ZEWDU, MELESS NMN
• Application Number:
  US09/865,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20010049273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,533 Days
• Field of Search: 455/2.01, 455/3.01, 455/3.03, 455/3.04, 455418-420, 455462-463, 455/550.1, 455/410, 455/411, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/414.3, 455/415, 455/416, 380/229, 380/232, 380/236, 380/339, 380/240, 380/241, 380/242, 463/9, 463/27, 463/29, 463/39
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32

Abstract

In a communication system which can privately inform each applicant of an outcome of a game or an examination, a cell phone with a cell phone number is used to transmit, to a center or a promoter, personal identification information including the cell phone number and a total personal password. The total personal password is obtained by producing the personal identification information, by producing the result of the game or examination as a parameter, and by encrypting both the personal identification information and the result. The center extracts the personal identification information from the total personal password decrypted and collates the extracted personal identification information with the received information so as to judge whether or not a person is authentic. When confirmation is made about the fact that the person is authentic, the parameter is extracted from the total personal password to be judged. An outcome of judgement is transmitted to each person by the use of the cell phone number. The total personal password may be transmitted to the center through a network.

Claims

1. An audition system comprising a program processing device for processing a program stored in a recording medium attached thereto and a cell phone communicable with the program processing device, and assigned with a cell phone number, the audition system carrying out a preliminary examination involving a predetermined workout exercised by a person before an audition to screen candidates;

the program processing device comprises;

means for inputting personal identification information representative of a person using the recording medium;

means for executing the program to produce personal record data as a result of executing the program;

means for generating a total personal password which comprises the personal identification information and the personal record data;

the cell phone comprising;

means for transmitting the total personal password.

2. An audition system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the program processing device is implemented by a portable game machine while the program is a game program for the mobile game machine.

3. A method of implementing an audition system, which includes carrying out a preliminary examination involving a predetermined workout exercised by a person before an audition, via communication between a center side and a cell phone that is assigned a cell phone number and that installs a calling number display service for displaying a cell phone number on the center side, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining, as personal record data, a result of the workout exercised by the person;

producing a total personal password which carries the personal record data and personal identification information comprising at least the cell phone number;

calling the center side from the cell phone to display the cell phone number on the center side;

transmitting the total personal password to the center side by the use of the cell phone; and

collating, on the center side, the displayed cell phone number with the cell phone number obtained from the total personal password to identify the person.

4. A method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising in the center side the steps of:

receiving the total personal password;

extracting said personal identification information from the total personal password as a detected personal identification information; and

collating the detected personal identification information with the personal identification information received from the cell phone and specified by a cell phone number to detect whether or not both are coincident with each other and to confirm whether or not the person is authorized.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

judging the personal record data included in the total personal password to produce a result of judgment from the result of the workout, only when the detected personal identification information is coincident with the received personal identification information and the person is authorized; and

transmitting the result of judgment from the center side only to the cell phone specified by the received personal identification information.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5, comprising the steps of:

judging that the person is not authorized when the detected personal identification information is not coincident with the received personal identification information; and

carrying out neither judgment of the personal record data nor transmission of any data to the person when in-coincidence is detected between the detected personal identification information and the received personal identification information.

7. A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the personal record data are representative of the result of the workout obtained by exercising a predetermined program designated by the center side.

8. A method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the predetermined program comprises the steps of:

producing the personal record data by practicing a game; and

generating the total personal password from the personal identification information and the personal record data.

9. A method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the predetermined program comprises the steps of:

executing a predetermined educational program to obtain, as the result of the workout, a result of executing the predetermined educational program and to generate the result of executing as the personal record data; and

generating the total personal password from the result of executing and the personal identification information.

10. An audition system for use in executing a preliminary examination, involving a predetermined workout exercised by a person before an audition/test, by carrying out communication between a center side and a cell phone of a person and assigned with a cell phone number, wherein:

the cell phone comprises;

transmitting means for transmitting a total personal password comprising the cell phone number and personal record data, said personal record data representing a result of a workout exercised by the person, to the center side;

the center side comprising;

means for receiving the total personal password;

means for extracting the cell phone number from the total personal password as a detected cell phone number; and

means for collating the detected cell phone number with the cell phone number received from the cell phone, to detect whether or not both are coincident with each other and to confirm whether or not the person is authorized.

11. An audition system as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

means for judging the result of the workout included in the total personal password to produce a result of judgment, only when the detected cell phone number is coincident with the received cell phone number and the person is authorized; and

means for transmitting the result of judgment from the center side only to the cell phone specified by the received cell phone number.