Method for checking the authorization of users

• US 8,912,880 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2006
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Swisscom AG (Government of Switzerland)
• Inventors: Ritter, Rudolf
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Nam V
• Application Number:
  US11/449,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20060238298A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,113 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.2, 340/5.52, 340/5.53, 340/5.83, 380/23, 380/24, 380/247, 395/10, 395/12, 713/188, 713/186, 382/117, 455/411, 455/90, 455/566, 455/575, 455/550, 235/375, 235/376, 235/382
• US Class Current: 340/5.2
• 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 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4014 Identity check for transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/253 visually
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/38 with central registration
• 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: H04M 1/675 the user being required to insert a coded card, e.g. a smart card carrying an integrated circuit chip

Abstract

In order to check the authorization of passengers, the following steps are performed:

• • storing of authorization data, for example of tickets, in an electronic storage area of a portable personal identification module (40) of the user, for example in a chip-card,
  • storing of identification data that are specific to the user'"'"'s outer appearance in an electronic storage area of the personal identification module (40),
  • contactless transmission of said identification and authorization data in a portable authorization-checking device (90),
  • visual reproduction of said identification and authorization data with a VRD (Virtual Retina Display).

Claims

1. A method for verifying personal electronic authorization data stored in mobile devices, said method comprising:

receiving via close range contactless communication at an authorization-checking device photographic identification data from one or more mobile devices, where said one or more mobile devices store authorization data and said photographic identification data associated with one or more users of said one or more mobile devices on a removable identification chipcard in said one or more mobile devices;

displaying said photographic identification data visually on said authorization-checking device, wherein said visually reproduced photographic identification data provides a user of said authorization-checking device with a comparison of the appearance of said one or more users of said one or more mobile devices for verifying said stored authorization data is associated with said one or more users of said one or more mobile devices; and

controlling the displaying of the photographic identification data based on input by a user of the authorization-checking device, wherein the controlling comprises modifying at least a portion of a displayed image corresponding to the photographic identification data.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said photographic identification data is a photographic representation of at least a face of one of said one or more users of said one or more mobile devices.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the authorization data comprises an International Mobile Subscriber Identification number.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said photographic identification data is displayed by a virtual retina display.

5. An authorization-checking device for verifying personal electronic authorization data stored in mobile devices, said authorization-checking device comprising one or more circuits enabled to:

receive via close range contactless communication photographic identification data from one or more mobile devices, where said one or more mobile devices store authorization data and said photographic identification data associated with one or more users of said one or more mobile devices on a removable identification chipcard in said one or more mobile devices; and

display said photographic identification data visually, wherein said visually reproduced photographic identification data provides a user of said authorization-checking device with a comparison of the appearance of said one or more users of said one or more mobile devices for verifying said stored authorization data is associated with said one or more users of said one or more mobile devices, wherein the displaying of the photographic identification data is controlled based on input by a user of the authorization-checking device, and the controlling comprises modifying at least a portion of a displayed image corresponding to the photographic identification data.

6. The authorization-checking device according to claim 5, wherein said photographic identification data is a photographic representation of at least a face of one of said one or more users of said one or more mobile devices.

7. The authorization-checking device according to claim 5, wherein the authorization data comprises an International Mobile Subscriber Identification number.

8. The authorization-checking device according to claim 5, further comprising a virtual retina display enabled to display said photographic identification data.