Detection of a transactional device

• US 9,411,988 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Issued: 08/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Banks And Acquirers International Holding
• Original Assignee: Ingenico Group
• Inventors: Berthiaud, Olivier, Rossignol, Michel
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, TUYEN KIM
• Application Number:
  US14/654,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20150347789A1
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 235380-383, 235/440, 235/451, 235/492
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0004 Hybrid readers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0013 by galvanic contacts, e.g. card connectors for ISO-7816 compliant smart cards or memory cards, e.g. SD card readers connectors in general H01R13/00; connectors for SIM cards used in mobile phones or the like H04B1/3816
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/087 flux-sensitive, e.g. magnetic, detectors G06K7/10336 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10297 arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00

Abstract

A terminal includes first and second communication modules for communicating with a personal device for performing transactions, called a transactional device. The first communication module includes a contact reading interface, and the second communication module includes a contact-free reading interface. The terminal also includes a detection module including: at least one transactional device position sensor, delivering an item of data representative of a position of a transactional device relative to the terminal; and at least one control module for controlling at least one communication module of the first and second communication modules, the at least one control module activating the communication module on the basis of the item of data representative of the position of the transactional device.

Claims

1. A terminal comprising:

communications elements configured to communicate with a personal device for carrying out transactions, called a transactional device, said communications elements comprising;

a first communications module comprising a reading interface for reading by contact, and

a second communications module comprising a contactless reading interface;

a detection module comprising;

at least one transactional device position sensor delivering a piece of data representing a position of a transactional device relative to said terminal; and

at least one control module controlling said first and second communications modules, said at least one control module activating said first communications module or said second communication module according to said piece of data representing said position of said transactional device.

2. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein said sensor comprises at least one optical sensor.

3. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises a plurality of detection modules, each detection module comprising at least one sensor, which is adapted to the detection of the position of a transactional device according to predetermined constraints related to said first or second communications module with which said detection module is associated.

4. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein each detection module of said plurality of detection modules is capable of controlling the first or second communications module associated with said detection module.

5. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the at least one transactional device position sensor of the detection module is associated with said second communications module and is positioned on a surface of a screen of said terminal.

6. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein said first communications module comprises at least one of a magnetic read head or an interface of electrical contacts.

7. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein said second communications module is compatible with at least any one of the following standards:

ISO/CEI 18092, ISO/CEI 14443-1 to ISO/CEI 14443-4 and NDEF.

8. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein said terminal is a payment terminal and said at least one control module can initiate an electronic transaction.

9. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein said at least one control module enables a reduction or increase in electrical consumption of one of said communications modules.

10. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein said at least one control module enables activating or stopping a module of said first and second communications modules.

11. The terminal of claim 1, wherein:

the at least one transactional device position sensor delivers a piece of data representing the position of a transactional device relative to a first position associated with the first communications interface and a second position associated with the second communications interface.

12. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the at least one transactional device position sensor comprises:

a first transactional device position sensor delivering a piece of data representing the position of the transactional device relative to the first position associated with the first communications interface; and

a second transactional device position sensor delivering a piece of data representing the position of the transactional device relative to the second position associated with the second communications interface.

13. A terminal comprising:

communications elements configured to communicate with a personal device for carrying out transactions, called a transactional device, said communications elements comprising;

a first communications module comprising a reading interface for reading by contact, and

a second communications module comprising a contactless reading interface;

a detection module comprising;

a first transactional device position sensor delivering a piece of data representing the position of the transactional device relative to the first position associated with the first communications interface; and

a second transactional device position sensor delivering a piece of data representing the position of the transactional device relative to the second position associated with second communications interface;

at least one control module controlling said first and second communications modules, said at least one control module activating said first communications module or said second communication module according to said pieces of data representing said position of said transactional device.