Process for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal and a chip card with contactless connections and/or contact connections as well as a device for this purpose
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1. Process for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal (1) and a chip card (4) with contactless connections and with contact connections (6), wherein energy and magnetic strip data are transferred through contacts from the read/write terminal (1) to the chip card (4) with contact via the contact connections (6) and wherein energy and magnetic strip data are transferred without contact or with contact from the chip card (4) to the read/write terminal (1) by means of electromagnetic alternating fields when the chip card is near the read/write terminal or with contact via the contact connections (6) when the chip card (4) is inserted into the read/write terminal (1), and when the chip card (4) reaches a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), said chip card autonomously activates itself with at least one circuit part (2) of its electronic circuit, whereinupon activation, this circuit part (2) sends out information to the read/write terminal (1) without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards, so that when the chip card (4) is manually held in close proximity to a read/write terminal (1), it causes the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card (4) to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices and, due to the fact that the transmitted information is identical or similar, wherein this remotely located device needs not distinguish whether the information comes from a magnetic strip card or from a chip card.
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Chip cards are described which remotely transfer the information of magnetic strip cards without contact to chip card terminals.
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1. Process for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal (1) and a chip card (4) with contactless connections and with contact connections (6), wherein energy and magnetic strip data are transferred through contacts from the read/write terminal (1) to the chip card (4) with contact via the contact connections (6) and wherein energy and magnetic strip data are transferred without contact or with contact from the chip card (4) to the read/write terminal (1) by means of electromagnetic alternating fields when the chip card is near the read/write terminal or with contact via the contact connections (6) when the chip card (4) is inserted into the read/write terminal (1), and when the chip card (4) reaches a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), said chip card autonomously activates itself with at least one circuit part (2) of its electronic circuit, wherein
upon activation, this circuit part (2) sends out information to the read/write terminal (1) without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards, so that when the chip card (4) is manually held in close proximity to a read/write terminal (1), it causes the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card (4) to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices and, due to the fact that the transmitted information is identical or similar, wherein this remotely located device needs not distinguish whether the information comes from a magnetic strip card or from a chip card.
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6. Process for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal (1) and a chip card (4) with contactless connections and optionally with additional contact connections (6), whereby enerqy and data are either transferred without contact between the read/write terminal (1) and the chip card (4) by means of electromagnetic alternating fields or with contact via the contact connections (6) when the chip card (4) is inserted into the read/write terminal (1), and when the chip card (4) reaches a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), said chip card autonomously activates itself with at least one circuit part (2) of its electronic circuit, characterized in that
upon activation, this circuit part (2) sends out information to the read/write terminal (1) without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations and optionally receives information, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards, so that when the chip card (4) is manually held in close proximity to a read/write terminal (1), it causes the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card (4) to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices and, due to the fact that the transmitted information is identical or similar, this remotely located device is not capable of distinguishing whether the information comes from a magnetic strip card or from a chip card, wherein data is reloaded from the read/write terminal (1) into the chip card (4) via the contact connections (6) or via the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), information for encoding the data to be output by the read/write terminal (1) can be loaded into the chip card (4) so that the coding of the contact-free, electromagnetically transmitted data changes as a function of the reloading.
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13. A method for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal and a chip card having contactless connections,
inserting a chip card into a read/write terminal; -
transferring energy and magnetic strip data through contacts from the read/write terminal to the chip card; holding the chip card manually in closed proximity to the read/write terminal; allowing the chip card to reach a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal; transferring energy and magnetic strip data without contact from the chip card to the read/write terminal by means of electromagnetic alternating fields; causing thereby the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices;
autonomously activating said chip card by itself with at least one circuit part of the electronic circuit of the chip card;sending out information upon activation of this circuit part to the read/write terminal without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 35)
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17. A chip card data exchange device comprising
a chip card having a magnetic strip; -
a read/write terminal having means for energized connection and/or communication with a member selected from the group consisting of contact connections of the chip card, coils of the chip card, and condensers of the chip card; and having a magnetic strip reading device for reading the magnetic strip of the chip card for exchanging energy and data with a chip card for writing magnetic strip formatted information into the chip card through contact connections of the chip card and for reading magnetic strip formatted information from the magnetic strip through the member selected from the group consisting of contact connections of the chip card, coils of the chip card, and condensers of the chip card. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A chip card data exchange device comprising
a chip card having a magnetic strip; -
a read/write terminal having means for energized connection and/or communication with a member selected from the group consisting of contact connections of the chip card, coils of the chip card, and condensers of the chip card; and having a magnetic strip reading device for reading the magnetic strip of the chip card for exchanging energy and data with a chip card, for reading information from the magnetic strip, for writing information into or reading information out of the chip card through the member selected from the group consisting of contact connections of the chip card, coils of the chip card, and condensers of the chip card; a component of the chip card, wherein the component of the chip card contains data corresponding to several different codes of magnetic strip card data, so that the chip card is suited to fulfill different requirements of different read/write terminals or different programs which are each associated with different encoding, and wherein the chip card is constructed to transfer the different coding through a contact-free segment.
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25. A chip card comprising
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a contact connection disposed on the chip card substrate for entering magnetic strip type information into the chip card; a contactless transfer element disposed on the chip card substrate, wherein the contact connection employing the contacts and the contactless transfer element employing emission of electromagnetic waves provide two separate reading paths for magnetic strip type information present on the chip card; an electronic memory disposed on the chip card substrate; a circuit part disposed on the chip card substrate. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A chip card comprising
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a magnetic strip (11) disposed on the chip card substrate; a contact connection (6) disposed on the chip card substrate; a coil (12) disposed on the chip card substrate; a condenser disposed on the chip card substrate; an electronic memory (3) disposed on the chip card substrate; a circuit part (2) disposed on the chip card substrate, wherein the chip card is readable by a magnetic strip reading device for reading the magnetic strip of the chip card for exchanging energy and magnetic strip type data with a chip card, for reading magnetic strip type information from the magnetic strip, for writing magnetic strip type information into the chip card through the contact connection of the chip card, and for reading magnetic strip type information out of the chip card through a member selected from the group consisting of the contact connection of the chip card, the coil of the chip card, and the condenser of the chip card.
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36. A method for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal and a chip card having
contactless connections, inserting a chip card into a read/write terminal; -
holding the chip card manually in closed proximity to the read/write terminal; allowing the chip card to reach a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal; transferring energy and data without contact between the read/write terminal and the chip card by means of electromagnetic alternating fields; causing thereby the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices; autonomously activating said chip card by itself with at least one circuit part of the electronic circuit of the chip card; sending out information upon activation of this circuit part to the read/write terminal without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards; wherein data is reloaded from the read/write terminal (1) into the chip card (4) via the contact connections (6) or via the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), information for encoding the data to be output by the read/write terminal (1) can be loaded into the chip card (4) so that the coding of the contact-free, electromagnetically transmitted data changes as a function of the reloading.
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37. A chip card data exchange device comprising
a chip card having a magnetic strip; -
a read/write terminal having means for energized connection and/or communication with a member selected from the group consisting of contact connections of the chip card, coils of the chip card, and condensers of the chip card; having a magnetic strip reading device for reading the magnetic strip of the chip card for exchanging energy and data with a chip card, for reading information from the magnetic strip, for writing information into or reading information out of the chip card through the member selected from the group consisting of contact connections of the chip card, coils of the chip card, and condensers of the chip card; wherein data is reloaded from the read/write terminal (1) into the chip card (4) via the contact connections (6) or via the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), information for encoding the data to be output by the read/write terminal (1) can be loaded into the chip card (4) so that the coding of the contact-free, electromagnetically transmitted data changes as a function of the reloading.
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38. Process for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal (1) and a chip card (4) with contactless connections and optionally with additional contact connections (6), whereby energy and data are either transferred without contact between the read/write terminal (1) and the chip card (4) by means of electromagnetic alternating fields or with contact via the contact connections (6) when the chip card (4) is inserted into the read/write terminal (1), and when the chip card (4) reaches a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), said chip card autonomously activates itself with at least one circuit part (2) of its electronic circuit, characterized in that upon activation, this circuit part (2) sends out information to the read/write terminal (1) without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations and optionally receives information, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards, so that when the chip card (4) is manually held in close proximity to a read/write terminal (1), it causes the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card (4) to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices and, due to the fact that the transmitted information is identical or similar, this remotely located device is not capable of distinguishing whether the information comes from a magnetic strip card or from a chip card,
wherein a component of the chip card contains data corresponding to several different codes of magnetic strip card data, so that the chip card is suited to fulfill different requirements of different read/write terminals or different programs which are each associated with different encoding, and wherein the chip card is constructed to transfer the different coding through a contact-free segment.
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39. Device consisting of a read/write terminal (1) for exchanging energy and data with a chip card (4) comprising
a chip card having a magnetic strip and coils (12) or condensers; -
a read/write terminal (1) having means for energized connection and/or communication with the contact connections (6) and/or with the coils (12) or condensers of a chip card (4) as well as a magnetic strip reading device for reading the magnetic strip (11) of the chip card (4), and in this manner, information can be read from the magnetic strip (11) and can be written into or read out of the chip card via the contact connections (6) and/or coils (12) and/or condensers by means of the read/write terminal (1); and a component of the chip card, wherein the component of the chip card contains data corresponding to several different codes of magnetic strip card data, so that the chip card is suited to fulfill different requirements of different read/write terminals or different programs which are each associated with different encoding, and wherein the chip card is constructed to transfer the different coding through a contact-free segment.
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40. A method for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal and a chip card having contactless connections,
entering magnetic strip type data into a component of the chip card, wherein the component of the chip card contains data corresponding to several different codes of magnetic strip card data, so that the chip card is suited to fulfill different requirements of different read/write terminals or different programs which are each associated with different encoding, and wherein the chip card is constructed to transfer the different coding through a contact-free segment; -
holding the chip card manually in close proximity to the read/write terminal; allowing the chip card to reach a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal; transferring energy and data without contact between the read/write terminal and the chip card by means of electromagnetic alternating fields; causing thereby the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices;
autonomously activating said chip card by itself with at least one circuit part of the electronic circuit of the chip card;sending out information upon activation of this circuit part to the read/write terminal without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards.
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41. Process for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal (1) and a chip card (4) with contactless connections, wherein energy and magnetic strip data are transferred without contact from the read/write terminal (1) to the chip card (4) by means of electromagnetic alternating fields interacting with two coils (12), and wherein energy and magnetic strip data are transferred without contact or with contact from the chip card (4) to the read/write terminal (1) by means of electromagnetic alternating fields when the chip card is near the read/write terminal, and when the chip card (4) reaches a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), said chip card autonomously activates itself with at least one circuit part (2) of its electronic circuit, wherein
upon activation, this circuit part (2) sends out information to the read/write terminal (1) without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards, so that when the chip card (4) is manually held in close proximity to a read/write terminal (1), it causes the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card (4) to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices and, due to the fact that the transmitted information is identical or similar, wherein this remotely located device needs not distinguish whether the information comes from a magnetic strip card or from a chip card, wherein contactless reading in of the magnetic strip information (8) to be electromagnetically transferred takes place in the circuit part (2) of the chip card (4) via the two coils (12) with which the chip card (4) can autonomously detect electronically whether it is in the vicinity of or far away from a read/write terminal (1) and, as a function of this detection, the reception of magnetic strip information to be entered is switched on or of.
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42. Process for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal (1) and a chip card (4) with contactless connections, wherein energy and magnetic strip data are transferred without contact from the read/write terminal (1) to the chip card (4) by means of electromagnetic alternating fields interacting with two coils (12) and wherein energy and magnetic strip data are transferred without contact or with contact from the chip card (4) to the read/write terminal (1) by means of electromagnetic alternating fields when the chip card is near the read/write terminal, and when the chip card (4) reaches a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal (1), said chip card autonomously activates itself with at least one circuit part (2) of its electronic circuit, wherein
upon activation, this circuit part (2) sends out information to the read/write terminal (1) without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, whereby the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards, so that when the chip card (4) is manually held in close proximity to a read/write terminal (1), it causes the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card (4) to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices and, due to the fact that the transmitted information is identical or similar, wherein this remotely located device needs not distinguish whether the information comes from a magnetic strip card or from a chip card, wherein the circuit part (2) of the chip card (4), depending on the source of its activation, is arranged in such a way that, on the one hand, in the case of contact-free electromagnetic activation, the circuit part (2) exclusively transfers the data without contact, corresponding to magnetic strip card data from the component (3), whereby any form of contact-free storage of data into the component (3) is blocked by electronic circuit means inside the chip card (4), and on the other hand, through the two coils (12), the circuit part (2) is opened for reading in data corresponding to magnetic strip card data.
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43. Device consisting of a read/write terminal (1) for exchanging energy and data with a chip card (4) wherein the read/write terminal (1) has means for energized connection and/or communication with two coils (12) of the chip card (4) as well as a magnetic strip reading device for reading the magnetic strip (11) of the chip card (4), and in this manner, magnetic strip formatted information can be written into the chip card via the two coils (12) by means of the read/write terminal (1) and magnetic strip formatted information can be read from the magnetic strip (11) and can be read out of the chip card through the two coils (12) by means of the read/write terminal (1),
wherein the component for data reception (10) through the two coils (12) and for contactless data transmission (8) of the circuit part (2) of the chip card (4) has an electronic memory (3).
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44. A method for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal and a chip card having contactless connections and two coils for emitting and receiving electromagnetic radiation;
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holding the chip card manually in close proximity to the read/write terminal; allowing the chip card to reach a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal; transferring energy and magnetic strip data without contact from the read/write terminal to the two coils of the chip card by means of electromagnetic alternating fields for activating the chip card, wherein a contactless reading in of the magnetic strip information (8) to be electromagnetically transferred takes place in the circuit part (2) of the chip card (4) via the two coils (12) with which the chip card (4) can autonomously detect electronically whether it is in the vicinity of or far away from a read/write terminal (1) and, as a function of this detection, the reception of magnetic strip information to be entered is switched on or off; transferring energy and magnetic strip data without contact from the chip card to the read/write terminal by means of electromagnetic alternating fields emitted by the two coils;
causing thereby the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices;
autonomously activating said chip card by itself with at least one circuit part of the electronic circuit of the chip card;sending out information upon activation of this circuit part to the read/write terminal without contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards.
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45. A method for exchanging energy and data between a read/write terminal and a chip card having contactless connections and two coils for emitting and receiving electromagnetic radiation;
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holding the chip card manually in close proximity to the read/write terminal; allowing the chip card to reach a minimum value of the energy level of the electromagnetic alternating field of the read/write terminal; transferring energy and magnetic strip data without contact from the read/write terminal to the two coils of the chip card by means of electromagnetic alternating fields for activating the chip card, wherein upon activation through the two coils (12), the circuit part (2) is opened for reading in data corresponding to magnetic strip card data;
transferring energy and magnetic strip data without contact from the chip card to the read/write terminal by means of electromagnetic alternating fields emitted by the two coils, wherein the circuit part (2) of the chip card (4), depending on the source of its activation, is arranged in such a way that, on the one hand, in the case of contact-free electromagnetic activation, the circuit part (2) exclusively transfers the data without contact, corresponding to magnetic strip card data from the component (3), whereby any form of contact-free storage of data into the component (3) is blocked by electronic circuit means inside the chip card (4);causing thereby the terminal to transfer the data of the chip card to remotely located devices in the same form as it is also transferred by magnetic strip card reading devices;
autonomously activating said chip card by itself with at least one circuit part of the electronic circuit of the chip card;sending out information upon activation of this circuit part to the read/write terminal with out contact by means of electromagnetic oscillations, wherein the sent-out information contains the data whose content corresponds to the data/information contents of magnetic strip cards.
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46. A chip card data exchange device comprising
a chip card having a magnetic strip and two coils; a read/write terminal having means for energized connection and/or communication with two coils of the chip card, and having a magnetic strip reading device for reading the magnetic strip of the chip card for exchanging energy and data with a chip card, for writing magnetic strip formatted information into the chip card through the two coils of the chip card, and for reading magnetic strip formatted information from the magnetic strip through the two coils of the chip card.
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47. A chip card comprising
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an electronic memory disposed on the chip card substrate; a circuit part disposed on the chip card substrate and connected to the electronic memory; two coils disposed on the chip card substrate and connected to the circuit part for receiving and emitting electromagnetic radiation and for entering magnetic strip type information into the electronic memory and furnishing a contactless transfer element disposed on the chip card substrate, wherein the contactless transfer element employing emission of electromagnetic waves provides a reading path for magnetic strip type information present in the electronic memory.
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Current AssigneeAngewandte Digital Elektronik GmbH
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Original AssigneeAngewandte Digital Elektronik GmbH
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InventorsKreft, Hans-Diedrich
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Primary Examiner(s)Le, Thien M.
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Assistant Examiner(s)Sherr, Daniel H.
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Application NumberUS08/973,741Time in Patent Office901 DaysField of Search235/492, 235/487, 235/486, 235/441, 235/493, 235/449US Class Current235/492CPC Class CodesG06K 19/06206 the magnetic marking being ...G06K 19/07 with integrated circuit chipsG06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprisi...G06K 19/07769 the further communication m...G06K 7/0008 General problems related to...
