System and method for providing secure identification solutions

• US 9,558,385 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2013
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Neology Incorporated (OEP Technologie BV)
• Original Assignee: Neology Incorporated (OEP Technologie BV)
• Inventors: Martinez de Velasco Cortina, Francisco, Rietzler, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIEU, VAN THANH
• Application Number:
  US14/084,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20140076971A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,169 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.1, 340/572.4, 340/572.5, 340/572.7, 340/572.8, 340/5.21, 340/5.61, 340/10.2, 235/375, 235/382, 235/383, 235/385
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0776 the adhering arrangement being a layer of adhesive, so that the record carrier can function as a sticker
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07764 the adhering arrangement making the record carrier attachable to a tire tire temperature or pressur control arrangements, see B60C23/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/10 at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards verification of coded identity or credit cards in mechanisms actuated by them G07F7/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/32 using wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/34 using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3674 involving authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/00 Business processing using cryptography postage metering system using cryptography G06Q2250/05
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/00 Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/77 Graphical identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for verifying and tracking identification information. In an embodiment of the invention, a system for delivering security solutions is provided that includes at least one of the following: a radio frequency (RF) identification device, an identification mechanism (e.g., a card, sticker), and an RF reader.

Claims

1. A radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, comprising:

an antenna;

a radio configured to interface with the antenna; and

a processor coupled with the radio, the processor configured to;

use the radio and the antenna to transmit, to an RFID transponder, a first communication that includes a first security key, and wherein the RFID transponder is configured to validate the first security key and provide access to contents of a memory included in the RFID transponder in response to a successful validation of the first security key;

use the radio and the antenna to receive, from the RFID transponder, an identifier that is included in the content of the memory of the RFID transponder in response to a successful validation of the first security key by the RFID transponder; and

transmit the identifier to a central database.

2. The RFID reader of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to use the radio and the antenna to transmit a second communication including a second security key to the RFID transponder.

3. The RFID reader of claim 2, wherein the RFID transponder is configured to validate the second security key and provide access to at least a second portion of the content of the memory comprising the RFID transponder in response to a successful validation of the second security key.

4. The RFID reader of claim 3, wherein the second portion of the content of the memory comprising the RFID transponder includes one or more of the following:

biometric information and transaction information.

5. The RFID reader of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to use the radio and the antenna to transmit, to the RFID transponder, a third communication to activate the RFID transponder prior to transmitting at least the first communication.

6. A communication method, comprising:

transmitting, to a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder, a first communication that includes a first security key, and wherein the RFID transponder is configured to validate the first security key and provide access to at least a first portion of a content of a memory of the RFID transponder in response to a successful validation of the first security key;

receiving, from the RFID transponder, an identifier that is included in the content of the memory included in the RFID transponder in response to a successful validation of the first security key by the RFID transponder; and

transmitting the identifier to a central database.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising transmitting a second communication including a second security key to the RFID transponder.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the RFID transponder is configured to validate the second security key and provide access to at least a second portion of the content of the memory comprising the RFID transponder in response to a successful validation of the second security key.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the second portion of the content of the memory comprising the RFID transponder includes one or more of the following:

biometric information and transaction information.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising transmitting, to the RFID transponder, a third communication to activate the RFID transponder prior to transmitting at least the first communication.