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Management system

  • US 8,570,143 B2
  • Filed: 12/21/2010
  • Issued: 10/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A management system which uses an information storage medium of a user to manage use of a management object provided in a facility, wherein the information storage medium stores an identification information of the user, the system comprising:

  • an entrance management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an entrance of the facility, which writes use permission information for permitting the use of the management object onto the information storage medium when the user enters the facility;

    wherein the entrance management apparatus includes;

    a storage unit which stores collation identification information indicating the user permitted to enter the facility;

    a transmitting/receiving unit which reads the identification information of the user from the information storage medium; and

    a collation unit which collates the identification information read from the information storage medium with the collation identification information, and enables the user to enter the facility when the identification information read from the information storage medium coincides with the collation identification information;

    a use management apparatus, provided for each management object, which controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium, and which writes, on the information storage medium, use information indicating that the management object is used, the use information including identification information of the management object used by the user; and

    a leaving management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an exit of the facility, which manages leaving of the user based on the use information, stored on the information storage medium, when the user leaves the facility,wherein the leaving management apparatus includes;

    a database;

    a door-opening unit which opens a door based on the use information stored in the information storage medium;

    a storing unit which associates the use information stored on the information storage medium with the identification information of the user and stores the identification information of the user and the use information into the database; and

    an erasing unit which erases the use permission information and the use information stored on the information storage medium to return the information storage medium to a state before the use permission information and the use information are written, when the user leaves the facility.

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