Secure personal RFID documents and method of use

• US 7,333,001 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2003
• Issued: 02/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William H III & Kathleen M Lane Trust Dated December 26 1995
• Original Assignee: William H III & Kathleen M Lane Trust Dated December 26 1995
• Inventors: Stewart, Roger, Lane, Kathleen, Lane, William
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman; Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, NAM V
• Application Number:
  US10/731,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20040233040A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,533 Days
• Field of Search: 340/10.1, 340/5.86, 340/10.51, 340/10.52, 340/572, 340/572.1, 713/168, 713/172, 713/159, 235/487, 235492-494, 235/375, 709/245, 709204-206
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/025 the material being flexible or adapted for folding, e.g. paper or paper-like materials used in luggage labels, identification tags, forms or identification documents carrying RFIDs methods for testing the genuineness of valuable papers, e.g. banknotes or passports G07D7/00; constructional features of booklets and the like B42D
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0719 at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for application selection, e.g. an acceleration sensor or a set of radio buttons application selection on smart cards using pure software control, see G07F7/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/077 Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 7/01 Testing electronic circuits therein
• 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 7/12 Card verification
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/122 Online card verification
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/321 involving a third party or a trusted authority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3226 using a predetermined code, e.g. password, passphrase or PIN network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using passwords in a packet data network H04L63/083
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3263 involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823

Abstract

A method and apparatus for authenticating entities to use an intelligent interactive Electronic Product Code stored in an RFID tag attached to a document as a means for third parties to ascertain a document is not counterfeit and has not been revoked or changed. In addition, such intelligent RFID tags can uniquely identify a particular document and data related to the document. The authenticating agency can utilize a public or private Electronic Product Code database as a means for the authenticating agency and third parties to authenticate documents and data in documents. The intelligent interactive Electronic Product Code can be used as an anti counterfeit mechanism enabling third parties requested to provide services, benefits or monetary payments to authenticate documents and or the data associated with the document is not counterfeit.

Claims

1. A system for providing secure documentation, the system comprising:

an electronic communications network communicatively includes a first electronic memory and a second electronic memory;

a primary document includes the first electronic memory, and the first electronic memory containing a primary personal identification number, or “

PIN”

, wherein the PIN that is related to a life event and the biometric measurement;

the life event selected from a group consisting of crossing a geographic border of a political jurisdiction, a birth of a human being, a death of a human being, a marriage, a divorce, a change in marital status, an adoption of a human being, a transition in military service status of a human being, a transition in health condition of a human being, a graduation of a human being from an educational organization, and an act of legal significance related to a human being;

the a biometric measurement selected from another group consisting of a biometric pattern, a DNA sequence, a photograph of a human being, a measurement of a part of the body of a human being, and a plurality of measurements of the body of a human being;

at least one secondary document including the secondary electronic memory, the secondary electronic memory containing at least one secondary digital code, wherein the secondary digital code is associated with the primary document, and wherein the primary document and secondary digital code are permanently associable with each other, and whereby a change in information stored in the memory related to the primary or secondary document may direct the communications network to automatically update information stored within electronic memories of a plurality of documents that are associated by the electronic communications network to either the primary or the secondary document.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first electronic memory contains a 2nd digital code, wherein the 2nd digital code is an encryption key, wherein modification to information stored in the secondary electronic memory of the second document by the electronic communications network requires application of the 2nd digital code.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the first electronic memory is an RFID.

4. The system of claim 1, the system further comprising:

an information technology system comprised with the electronic communications network; and

a plurality of related documents, each related document having an associated electronic memory communicatively coupled with the information technology system, whereby the information technology system updates information stored in the associated electronic memories in accordance with changes of information stored in the first electronic memory of the primary document.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the PIN and the secondary digital codes are permanently associable with each other.

6. The system of claim 1, the system further comprising:

means for printing information onto a surface of a flexible substrate; and

a plurality of related documents, each related document having an electronic memory; and

means for automatically updating information stored in the electronic memories of the related documents in accordance with information stored in the first electronic memory.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein at least one electronic memory of at least one related document is comprised within an RFID device.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein at least one electronic memory of at least one related document includes a record related to at least one life event.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said personal information includes biometric information about the human being.

10. The system of claim 1, the system further comprising:

primary document having a flexible substrate having a surface, the surface visibly presenting information;

wherein an authentication of the primary document is based at least partly on the at least one secret key;

wherein access to the first information requires the use of the secret key, wherein the secret key may be communicated by private means from a first agency to a second agency and the secret key may be used to delegate authority from the first authority to the second authority; and

means for automatically updating information stored in a plurality of electronic memories of separate associated documents in accordance with information stored in the first electronic memory of the primary document.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the transfer of authority from the first authority to the second authority is revocable.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein at least one instance of the secret key is stored on an RFID.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein at least one secret key is never sent to or read from the secure document, after the at least one secret key is initially written or read from the primary document.

14. The system of claim 1,

wherein access to a first portion of the first electronic memory requires the use of a first secret key, and access to a second portion of the first electronic memory requires the use of a second secret key;

wherein the information of the first and second portion of the first electronic memory and secret keys may be securely communicated from a first agency to a second agency and the secret keys may be used to delegate authority from the first authority to the second authority; and

means for automatically updating information stored in a plurality of electronic memories of separate associated documents in accordance with information stored in the first electronic memory of the document.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the transfer of authority from the first authority to the second authority is revocable.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein at least one electronic memory of at least one related document is an RFID.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the PIN is associated with a universal resource locator.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the PIN is associated with a social security number.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the first electronic document is addressable by means of an extensible markup language schema.