Reader device with reading time counting unit

• US 8,376,216 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2006
• Issued: 02/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Morita, Kugo
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael G
• Assistant Examiner(s): ELLIS, SUEZU Y
• Application Number:
  US11/816,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20090014511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,552 Days
• Field of Search: 235/383, 235/462.45, 235/376, 235/377, 235/384, 235/385, 235/462.46, 235/462.49, 23547201-47203, 235/382, 235/375, 235/380, 235/451, 235/492, 705/32, 705/22, 705/28, 356/572.1, 356/573.1, 356/573.4, 356/539.1, 356/539.11, 356/539.13, 356/825.49, 340/572.1, 340/573.1, 340/573.4, 340/539.1, 340/539.11, 340/539.13, 340/825.49, 340/8.1, 340/539.32, 340/989, 340/994, 340/539.14, 455/456.1
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/327 Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4014 Identity check for transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0886 the card reader being portable for interacting with a POS or ECR in realizing a payment transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1083 Counting of PIN attempts
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/125 Offline card verification

Abstract

To improve convenience of a data carrier system, a cellular phone (30) which is carried by a user and includes an RFID communication unit (36) reading identification information of an RFID from the RFID in the vicinity in a non-contact state contains a user correlation unit (311) counting the number of times of reading with respect to identification information which have been read, selecting at least one carrier identification information from the identification information which have been read, and correlating the at least one carrier identification information with the user.

Claims

1. A reader device which is carried by a user and includes a carrier identification information reader unit for reading carrier identification information from a data carrier for identifying the data carrier, which is in a non-contact state from the carrier identification information reader unit, comprising:

a reading time counting unit for counting a number of times that carrier identification information is read by the carrier identification information reader unit;

a user correlation unit for selecting at least one carrier identification information from carrier identification information read by the carrier identification information reader unit, according to the number of times counted by the reading time counting unit, and for correlating the selected carrier identification information with the user;

a home correlation unit that correlates carrier identification information read by the carrier identification information reader unit with a home of the user based on whether the carrier identification information is read from a data carrier identified as a fixed data carrier and based on the number of times counted by the reading time counting unit, wherein the reader unit judges that the user is not out when the carrier identification information correlated with the home of the user is acquired;

a reader position acquisition unit that acquires a change of position of the user; and

an aboard judgment unit that judges whether a user is in a vehicle based on the change of position of the user acquired by the reader position acquisition unit and based on whether carrier identification information is read from a data carrier identified as a moving data carrier.

2. The reader device according to claim 1, further comprising

a storage unit for storing a data carrier to be transported or worn,

wherein the user correlation unit selects at least one carrier identification information from the carrier identification information read by the carrier identification information reader unit and used for identifying the data carrier stored in the storage unit as the data carrier to be transported or worn, according to the number of times counted by the reading time counting unit.

3. The reader device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a carrier identification information acquisition unit for acquiring information selected based on the carrier identification information correlated with the user by the user correlation unit; and

an information output unit for outputting the information acquired by the carrier identification information acquisition unit.

4. The reader device according to claim 1, further comprising an information transmission unit for transmitting the carrier identification information correlated with the user by the user correlation unit to another device.

5. The reader device according to claim 1, further comprising

a carrier identification information storage unit for storing one or a plurality of carrier identification information,

wherein the user correlation unit avoids the selection when the one or the plurality of carrier identification information stored in the carrier identification information storage unit has/have been read by the carrier identification information reader unit.

6. The reader device according to claim 5, wherein:

the carrier identification information storage unit stores a data carrier as a fixed data carrier; and

the carrier identification information stored in the carrier identification information storage unit is the carrier identification information correlated with the home of the user by the home correlation unit.

7. The reader device according to claim 1, further comprising

a moving speed acquisition unit for acquiring a moving speed of the reader device,

wherein the user correlation unit avoids the selection when the moving speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed.

8. The reader device according to claim 1, wherein

the carrier identification information reader unit periodically reads carrier identification information from the data carrier, and

the reading time counting unit adds 1 to the number of times for the carrier identification information in a case that the carrier identification information reader unit reads the data carrier identification information read at last period.

9. The reader device according to claim 1, wherein the carrier identification information reader unit carried by the user reads all the carrier identification information of all data carriers within a vicinity automatically.