Arrangement, apparatus, and associated method, for providing stored data in secured form for purposes of identification and informational storage

• US 8,770,486 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2006
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gregory P Naifeh, Naifeh, Jerome G.
• Original Assignee: Gregory P Naifeh, Naifeh, Jerome G.
• Inventors: Naifeh, Gregory P., Naifeh, Jerome G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mai, Thien T
• Application Number:
  US11/438,098
• Publication Number:
  US 20060273436A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,972 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/492, 235/462.01, 235/382.5, 235/379, 235/382, 235/487, 235/486, 340/825.34, 340/573.1, 340/5.61, 705/51, 705/41, 713/171, 713/184
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/073 Special arrangements for circuits, e.g. for protecting identification code in memory protection against unauthorised use of computer memory G06F12/14

Abstract

Card member apparatus, and an associated method, for storing and permitting selectable use of informational data associated with a subject. Identifying indicia stored at a first storage element, and the informational data is stored at a second storage element, together disposed upon a substrate, or otherwise supported to permit carriage by a subject. The card member is presented for reading at a card reader, and analysis is made of the identifying indicia stored at the storage element. If the identifying indicia is ascertained to correspond to the subject that carries the card member, permission is granted for the access to the informational data stored at the card member. The informational data, once accessed, is used pursuant to a transaction associated with the subject.

Claims

1. Card member apparatus for a card member associated with a subject, said card member apparatus comprising:

a first storage element configured to store identifying indicia uniquely associated with, and identifiable of, the subject on the card member;

the identifying indicia accessible and, when accessed, usable to verify identification of the subject;

a second storage element configured to store informational data associated with the subject on the card member, the informational data stored at said second storage element accessible by permission made at the card member responsive to, and only upon, verification of the identification of the subject through access to the identifying indicia stored at said first storage element and responsive to providing of a code-reader-generated code thereto, the card-reader-generated code providing a further level of security additional to the verification provided through the access to the identifying data, the informational data, once accessed by permission made at the card member, usable in performance of a commercial transaction associated with the subject, the informational data including purchase information automatically saved at said second storage element and available for subsequent use,

a card reader having a first portion and a second portion, the second portion positioned remote from the first portion and connected thereto by way of a communication-fabric-connection, the first portion configured to connect to said first storage element and to said second storage element and configured selectably to access the identifying indicia stored at said first storage element and the informational data stored at said second storage element, the second portion of said card reader comprising an identifying indicia analyzer configured to compare the identifying indicia accessed, by way of the communication-fabric-connection with the first portion, from the first storage element on the card member with information generated at the card reader identifying the subject to verify the identification of the subject at the card reader, the second portion of said card reader providing a message, returned to the first portion of said card reader to permit access to said second storage element.

2. The card member apparatus of claim 1 further comprising an external access connector configured to provide selectable external access to said first storage element and to said second storage element.

3. The card member apparatus of claim 2 wherein said card reader comprises a card member connector configured to connect with the external access connector, the identifying indicia and the informational data selectably accessible when said card member connector is connected with said external access connector.

4. The card member apparatus of claim 2 wherein said identifying indicia analyzer is configured to verify the identification of the subject by comparing the identifying indicia with the subject.

5. The card member apparatus of claim 4 wherein the identifying indicia comprises a physical characteristic associated with the subject.

6. The card member apparatus of claim 3 wherein the card reader is operated by an operator and wherein the operator compares the identifying indicia accessed from said first storage element with the subject to verify the identification of the subject.

7. The card member apparatus of claim 2 wherein said card reader comprises an informational data analyzer configured to analyze the informational data pursuant to the performance of the commercial transaction associated with the subject.

8. The card member apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a substrate at which said first storage element and said second storage element are disposed.

9. The card member apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a support assembly configured to support said first storage element and said second storage element.

10. The card member apparatus of claim 1 wherein the informational data stored at said second storage element further comprises medical information associated with the subject.

11. The card member apparatus of claim 1 wherein the informational data stored at said second storage element further comprises financial information associated with the subject.

12. The card member apparatus of claim 1 wherein said second storage element comprises a read/write memory and wherein the informational data stored at said second storage element is selectably updateable.

13. A method for using informational data associated with a subject, said method comprising the operations of:

storing at a card member apparatus of a card member identifying indicia uniquely associated with, and identifiable of, the subject at a first storage element of the card member apparatus of the card member;

storing at the card member apparatus the informational data at a second storage element of the card member apparatus;

connecting a first portion of a card reader with the first storage element and the second storage element;

verifying at a second portion of the card reader, the second portion positioned remote from the first portion and connected thereto by way of a communication-fabric-connection, the identification of the subject by accessing the identifying indicia from the first storage element of the card member and comparing, at the second portion of the card reader, the identifying indicia accessed from the first storage element of the card member with information generated at the card reader identifying the subject to verify the identification of the subject;

sending a message by the second portion of the card reader to the first portion of the cad reader to permit access to the second storage element;

providing a code-reader-generated code to the card member apparatus, the code-reader-generated code providing a further level of security additional to the verification provided through the access to the identifying data; and

granting permission at the card member apparatus of the card member to use the informational data stored at the second storage element of the card member of the card member apparatus pursuant to a commercial transaction associated with the subject only if the identification of the subject is verified during said operation of verifying, message sent by the second portion permits access to the second storage element, and upon, and responsive to, the code-reader-generated code provided during said providing.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the identifying indicia stored during said operation of storing identifying indicia comprises physical indicia that identifies the subject.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the first and second storage elements at which the identifying indicia and the informational data are stored are embodied at a common structure and wherein said operation of verifying is performed external to the common structure.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein said operation of verifying comprises connecting the common structure at which the first and second storage elements are embodied, retrieving the identifying indicia from the first storage element, and comparing the identifying indicia retrieved therefrom with corresponding identification information of the subject.

17. The method of claim 13 wherein the informational data further comprises medically-related information of the subject and wherein the commercial transaction pursuant to which the informational data is to be used comprises a medically-related task.

18. The method of claim 13 wherein comprising the further operation of selectably updating the informational data stored at the second storage element.