Permitting access

There is disclosed apparatus and method for unerasably marking computer and other information records and the like in a precise, machine readable manner so as to identify the particular record, and to control access to the record by providing means for authenticating a control member presented for access...     

An access control device operated by a magnetically coded card. A self-contained unit with card receiving slot, card reader, memory and logic and control circuitry in a single small package. An access control device providing a unique number for each issued card and including a programmable memory providing...     

A parking lot gate control system having a pivoted normally horizontal gate bar which is automatically elevated to a raised non-obstructing position and then returned to its normal position by a mechanism driven by an electric motor under the control of a circuit including a clearance device at the entrance...     

This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded. The control card contains...     

A severable ticket-type entry item for admission to an event attended by a plurality of people has a magnetic code indication. A detector detects the magnetic code indication of the entry item and produces an input electrical signal varying in accordance with the magnetic code indication. An identifying...     

This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded. The control card contains...     

An electronic authentication system utilizing a predetermined random code to simultaneously interrogate the control unit and the remote unit by a comparison of the response of each unit.

In the identification of an article provided with at least one identifying magnetic member, each identifying member is selected from one or more production batches each of which has a characteristic hysteresis loop which is virtually non-reproducible. The member is subjected to analysis of its magnetic...     

A key assembly is provided which includes a support and retainer for a coded electrical circuit which is responsive to short wave radiation for use in security systems which employ the key to open a lock or close a switch for controlling a machine or gaining access to a locked container or room. In one...     

A system is disclosed for reading a code established by a surface acoustic wave device. The system has a first antenna connected to a supply for transmitting a signal, a second antenna for receiving said signal and supplying it to a first transducer on a surface acoustic wave device, the first transducer...     

This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded. The control card contains...     

A security system includes apparatus for producing a pair of identical keys in the form of photographs of a kaleidoscopic image. One photograph is retained in the system and upon introduction of another photograph back into the system, the images thereon are compared and employed to sound an alarm if...     

A communications link between a computer and a remote user is effected by a portable access unit which generates a nonrecurring access code which is a function of a password and a pseudorandomly generated number. The access code is transmitted and compared with an access code generated by a computer...     

A coded key operated solid state entry system for a controlled access to a multiplicity of electronic circuits by the use of corresponding coded keys embodying a detection and monitoring system, the detection and monitor system being activated by the insertion into the keyway of a coded key particularly...     

The invention relates to a device that can read numerical information from a credit card, interfaced with a general purpose digital computer for automatic credit card validation and/or dialing approaches to include through the computer charge and billing information in conjunction with the credit card...     

An electronic system is provided for use with motor vehicles, homes, offices, factories, or other applications where it is desired to control access and/or operation. The security system utilizes a coded electronic key, preferably in the form of a card, which is connected to a decoder for identification...     

An access control card for use in an access control system. A battery, a wireless signal sensor such as an antenna for receiving coded wireless signals such as coded radio frequency signals generated by a card reader, a clock connected to the battery and including a receiver are connected to the antenna...     

There is provided a transaction processing system including a terminal machine for automatic cash transactions initiated with record media possessed by users, comprising means for reading data on record media inserted by users, means for detecting if the read data are related to certain data representing...     

An electronic security device includes a memory and a card reader which reads a combination code and calculation data from a key card. An electronic circuit compares the content of the memory with the combination code and enables the lock device if a match is found. If the key card is a new one the circuit...     

The system described is a positive cross identification system finding use in assuring that the proper medicaments are used for the proper patient. In this system, a patient's identification (I.D.) number is read by an optical scanner. Next, the I.D. number of the intended recipient on medicament container...     

A door control unit for electronically locking and unlocking one or more doors. The door control unit includes door locking means having a rotatable lock cylinder for locking and unlocking a door, means engaging the lock cylinder for normally locking the door, and means responsive to a control signal...     

A time recorder having an assembly with structure for reading out a personal code recorded on an inserted time card, a memory provided corresponding to each personal code for storing status data expressing at least the distinction of either "arrival queuing" or "departure queuing", a print column control...     

A working hour system corresponding to each of a number of different kinds of plural work classes is stored in the form of predetermined format in a storage section of a time recorder. A time card has a work class code expressing the work class of the person who owns the card. When the time card is inserted...     

A transaction processing system applicable to an automatic transaction machine such as an automatic cash dispenser or an automatic cash deposit machine which can automatically carry out transactions such as cash dispensing, balance check and depositing by an operation of an operator is disclosed. An...     

A system is disclosed for authenticating an object on the basis of certain physical phenomena or character, specifically, measurable, but not practicably duplicable random variations in the object. In one form, the object (authenticator (T)) is a paper tag having a reference space (14), the varying translucency...     

An improved electronic key for use in combination with an electrical receptacle adapted to receive the key wherein switch contacts on the key are designed for making electrical contact with corresponding receptacle contacts when the key is turned in the receptacle to an "on" position only after the other...     

A system for performing the desired transaction when the customer follows a specified procedure comprising a sequence of steps includes an electronic visual display unit for displaying a message and an illustration at the same time, a plurality of function buttons arranged in the vicinity of the display...     

There is disclosed a protection system for intelligent cards. Each card has stored in it a code which is the encryption of a concatenation of a user secret password and a common reference text. The encryption is derived by an initialization terminal which uses the private key associated with the public...     

This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded. The control card contains...     

The indentification system consists of a key comprising a passive memory area (10) and a shift register (9) and a lock which can be coupled with the key. The lock is capable of supplying a set number of pulses causing the code contained in the memory (10) to be loaded into the register (9). The register...     

In a system having a central unit, a terminal control equipment and terminal devices connected through communication lines, a transaction operation by an unauthorized terminal device is prevented. Unauthorized use prevention information is registered to each of the terminal devices and the unauthorized...     

An identification element in the form of an integrated circuit, for example for identification cards and similar data carriers. The element contains a confidential code which is known only by the lawful owner of the card and is compared in the integrated circuit with a typed in code. To prevent the unauthorized...     

The identification system consists of an electronic key comprising a passive memory area (10) and a shift register (9) and a lock capable of being coupled with the key. The lock is capable of supplying a pulse causing the code contained in the memory (10) to be loaded into the register (9). The register...     

Identification card, including a card body, an integrated semiconductor circuit being mechanically inserted and protected in the card body for storing data to be read-out and read-in in changed form, a receiving antenna device, a rectifier circuit connected to the receiving antenna device, a filter circuit...     

A usage control system for copiers and the like, adapted to connect to the copier through the existing accounting system connection. A check-operated device, such as a coin box or magnetic card reader, supplies the copier with a signal to initiate operation. When the operation has progressed, the copier...     

A personal identification system capable of using the information of a combination of certain questions and answers to said questions as the information to connect a card to its original owner, capable of displaying said questions at the time of card input and letting a card user enter answers to said...     

A data carrier (preferably shaped as a credit card or the like) holds information about the owner, card issuing organization, account number, etc., and comprises an internal processor for processing supplied identification information of the owner during a card verification process, and for generating...     

A slotless card reader for reading magnetically encoded cards is disclosed having an array of magnetic sensors defining a card plane, a magnetically permeable covering over said array and defining a card touch surface exposed for manually applying a magnetic card downwardly against the touch surface,...     

An identification card having an IC module for the processing of electrical signals. The IC module (9) and the leads (6) and contact surfaces (5, 20) necessary for the operation of the module are attached to a separate carrier (7, 17) and embedded in the identification card in such a way that the IC...     

Credit cards to be used with automated systems such as vending machines or the like have various identification and other data encoded on them for use with a particular system for which they are intended. To prevent persons familiar with the system operation and the manner of encoding data on such credit...     

The present invention provides a safety lock actuatable with a flat key carrying a code. The code is digitally generated by a laser beam and is sensed by detector laser beam upon or after the introduction of the key into the lock. The digital coding is produced by means of burning discrete depressions...     

This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded. The control card contains...     

A locking and unlocking device particularly employable for a double lock system such as a bank lock and a client lock is disclosed. To operate the bank lock, a magnetic card specifically allocated to a client is inserted into a casing or cover through a card insert hole until a plurality of magnetized...     

A computerized fingerprint matching system is shown for rapidly identifying a person presenting a previously issued identity card to complete a transaction. The user of a credit card, for example, can prove his right to have it in his possession for use in completing a financial transaction and upon...     

An automatic-transfer-transaction processing apparatus comprises a first means for receiving a transfer card of a paper with a magnetic strip and for reading the destination bank from the magnetic strip, and a second means for processing data to transfer a specified amount to the destination bank read...     

A card reader capable of conveying a card inserted therein to a predetermined position for accessing the card with respect to the data on the card. Non-volatile storage means are adapted to be set when the inserted card is conveyed to the predetermined position and react when the card is returned to...     

A credit card resistant to unlawful use has a code, indicative of the owner's account number hidden beneath an opaque shield. The card has a keyboard and microprocessing components electrically connected to the shield. Insertion of correct entries, e.g. an owner's personal identification number, into...     

A security system having a key card with combination codes encoded on two different ends of the key card to allow the user of the key card access to at least two different locks, each lock having different combination codes. The system includes a lock having a multi-level memory for storing combination...     

A secure system provides identification verification by transmission of an access number, preferably a random number, from a central processor to a remote terminal. The system provides portable identification devices for use by individuals, programmed to perform specified mathematical functions on data...     

A card identification system comprises an IC card, a terminal and an identification device. The IC card has a magnetic recording stripe for recording first identification data and an IC chip for storing second identification data. The IC card is inserted into the terminal wherein the first and second...     

An identification system comprises an interrogator which transmits an interrogation signal to a plurality of transponders, each of which is arranged automatically to reply by means of a first coded identification signal stored in the transponder and modulated onto a carrier wave transmitted by the transponder....     

A security locking system includes a plurality of compartments each having a door giving access thereto and a lock for locking each such door; a console for controlling operation of the locks to permit access to the compartments, wherein the console includes a circuit for accepting a plurality of selected...     

The present invention is a method and apparatus for controlling customer access to rental appliances located in the customer's home or other location away from the direct physical control of the renter. This is accomplished through use of a control module wired into the appliance with a card reader for...     

A security system having at least one electronic lock and one electronic key. The electronic lock has a memory device which can maintain the data while there is no current supplied to the memory device, and alter the data only when current is supplied, thus providing a non-continuous current drain system....     

A first transparent strip having a series of alternate lines and spaces is mounted in a housing parallel and adjacent to a second transparent strip having a series of lines and spaces. A key inserted through a slot formed in the housing pushes the second transparent strip across the first transparent...     

A door lock control system including keys each having a memory storing information of the key number and the key owner's face as video data. When the key is inserted into the door lock, the face image is reproduced on a CRT according to the face information stored in the key. A TV camera also takes the...     

A system for securing a complex with a plurality of lockable access points has a stand-alone keypad-operated remote station at each access point for communication with a desk station through a local area network. In a preferred embodiment the access points are room doors of a hotel or an apartment building...     

Real estate lockbox and key designs are disclosed which provide a variety of operational features. Also disclosed is a comprehensive system that allows real estate boards and agencies to efficiently manage their lockbox operations. Features provided by the system include the ability to record all accesses...     

An electronic security system and an electronic proximity key for use therein are disclosed in which a multitiered distributed architecture is used to rapidly and flexibly provide ingress and egress through a plurality of electronic locks. In the event of loss of communication with the central processor,...     

Safety mechanism for locks (electronic lock) comprising a pick-up performing the function of a key and a sensor performing the function of a lock part. The pick-up is provided with a pre-determined surface arrangement of magnetically permeable, preferably inactive material in the form of soft-iron pins...     

The present invention relates to a programmable electronic lock each constituted by an independent unit. It comprises a support of a card code and of a shift code which, after having been read, are temporarily stored in registers (5, 6) and transmitted to a computing means which also receives a system...     

An improved receptacle for a key-like device containing an embedded electronic circuit component with electrical leads extending to the surface of the key to form electrical contact areas thereon. The receptacle defines a keyway in which a plurality of exposed contact pins are positioned and spaced inside...     

The device consists of a key having a passive memory zone and a circulating register, the code contained in the passive zone being intended to be transferred to the circulating register when the key is introduced into a lock, so that the said code may be transferred from the circulating register to the...     

An electronic funds transfer system (EFT) is described in which retail terminals located in stores are connected through a public switched telecommunication system to card issuing agencies data processing centers. Users of the system are issued with intelligent secure bank cards, which include a microprocessor,...     

A control device for use in controlling various information relating to an apparatus which can be operated in response to the instructions fed from the control device. The control device is provided with a memory device for storing information relating to the operation of the apparatus and is operable...     

A security system that grants access to authorized persons includes a central controller, insertion-type card readers, proximity-type card readers, and an interface module that interfaces between the central controller and the proximity-type readers in order to make the proximity-type readers appear...     

An information carrier (17) has formations (20,21) which are engaged by contact elements (30,32) during insertion of the carrier into a receiving member (39) the movement of the contact elements is amplified and transmitted by levers (26,33) to respective means (25,34) for providing electrical signals...     

There is disclosed herein an improved card reader for a security system utilizing a central controller and a plurality of card readers for controlling traffic through critical doors in a facility. During normal operation, the card readers read card data and send it to the central controller. The central...     

An electronic lock system adapted for use with receivers, such as parking meters, that include storage means and an electronically operable actuator for providing access to material such as coins contained within the storage means in response to an electronic actuation signal. The electronic lock system...     

A security arrangement includes a token in the form of a thin lamina which co-operates with a receptor. The token includes an optically readable pattern in the form of a bar code, and a thin film holographic reflector which deflects the light which is modified by the bar code onto an optical sensor....     

A composite IC card for controlling information of a plurality of different enterprises using an IC card in which a memory is divided into a plurality of storage areas and which has a code store section for storing a plurality of codes necessary to access the storage areas, a first code specify section...     

The present invention concerning the Optical Identification Card System is provided with an individual card which emits infrared light modulated by the individual code and a detector which receives this infrared modulated light and detects the individual code. When a request signal is radiated from this...     

When fixed data common to IC cards is written in an unpersonalized IC card, a key card and a fixed data card holding fixed data common to the IC cards are used. When data read/write access is performed among the key and fixed data cards and the unpersonalized IC card, the fixed data is written in the...     

A device applicable for processing batch mail which eliminates the need for on-site inspection. A mail sender purchases postage value and stores the amount purchased in the memory of the accounting device. The mail sender processes batches of mail and reduces the amount of purchased postage value in...     

A credit card operable storage system is provided. A plurality of credit card accessed and computer operated safes are communicatively linked to a respective branch computer, which is in turn communicatively linked to a central host computer (central host). The safes transmit use information (including...     

A credit card operable storage system is provided. A plurality of credit card accessed and computer operated safes are communicatively linked to a respective branch computer, which is in turn communicatively linked to a central host computer (central host). The safes transmit use information (including...     

An IC card having an authentication code which is compared with an authentication code obtained by processing data recorded on the IC card, and permitting the IC card to be used only when agreement is found.

A reader identifies coded electronic badges without contact with the latter, by simple inductive coupling of inductances, the electrical supply of the badge being ensured from a voltage at high frequency F generated by the reader. The code of the badge, composed of a sequence of bits following one another...     

A reliable electronic lock comprises means for reading a key card upon insertion and withdrawal. Sets of data read from the key card are compared to CRC data read from the key card to determine which set contains actual data and no false data erroneously read by the electronic lock. The CRC data is stored...     

A high security pay television system is provided in which subscribers are provided with a decoder and with periodically changed removable memory modules. The decoder only functions to properly descramble the scrambled broadcast signal when a changeable system-wide code is available in the decoder. The...     

A handheld pocket terminal (22) having a display screen (40) and a bar code reader (42).

A checkin gate apparatus comprises a carry-in path for carrying in a ticket inserted into an insertion slot; a reader section disposed in the course of the carry-in path to read information recorded on the inserted ticket; a ticket cutter device for cutting off the ticket into two half stubs after the...     

A user controlled card computer C and communicating tamper-resistant part T are disclosed that conduct secure transactions with an external system S. All communication between T and S is moderated by C, who is able to prevent T and S from leaking any message or pre-arranged signals to each other. Additionally,...     

An unique credit card which can be registered to the holder and is virtually as unique as a finger print. A preferred embodiment of the invention is a credit card comprising a plastic base layer containing one or more distinctive gems retained thereto. Preferably the gem or gems are contained within...     

An entity such as a smart card includes microprocessor means, input/output means, and PROM storage means which stores a set of transformations S.sub.i (i=1, . . . , n) of a corresponding set of public factors F.sub.1 (i=1, . . . , n), where S.sub.i =F.sub.i.sup.d (mod N), d being the secret key counterpart...     

A security system is provided for controlling access to information stored in a target memory in which an access key carries a random access binary memory which is electronically programmable, electronically alterable, directly electronically readable and non-volatile. The memory carried on the key constitutes...     

A credit card operable storage system is provided. A plurality of credit card accessed and computer operated safes are communicatively linked to a respective branch computer, which is in turn communicatively linked to a central host computer (central host). The safes transmit use information (including...     

The disclosure relates to a security system for computer software. A plug-in circuit accompanies each legitimately purchased softward package. The software includes a communication system to decode signals generated by the plug-in circuit. Where the appropriate signal is sensed the program is executed....     

A reusable identification badge having a time varying display with a programmable memory. The configurations exhibited on the display are altered at predetermined time intervals. A specific sequence of configurations, each having visually distinctive shapes or symbols, can be programmed for display on...     

A personal identification system and a method for verifying a person presenting a record member such as a credit card or other member so as to eliminate fraud from the procedure. The record member or card contains invisible magnetic recordings of a full frame video picture signal and code defining signal...     

An off-line terminal, located at an airline boarding gate processes composite tickets bearing a magnetic stripe. Processing includes: authenticating, verifying, recording, canceling, bursting into component sections and sorting. Operations are controlled, logged and interrelated in accordance with ticket...     

An IC card with a product test program contained therein is provided with a read-only memory. This read-only memory stores various routines, and is arranged such that if a secret code assigned exclusively to that IC card has been already written in a non-volatile memory in the IC card, an externally...     

The portable automated teller machine disclosed by the present invention is a low-cost, pocket-size data terminal which can securely exchange information with a host bank computer. It is battery powered, operates without the need for direct connection to a telephone line and couples to the host bank...     

A personal identification system wherein an encoded version of the user's fingerprint is reprint is recorded on an identification card or device; this encoded version is security machine-read and directly compared at the time of use with an impression of the fingerprint on a different but designated...     

An electronic lock mechanism utilizing for the opening thereof a card-key upon which digital codes are imprinted. The digital codes are created by infrared light transmissive portions and infrared light non-transmissive portions on the card-key. The electronic lock mechamism determines the digital codes...     

The present invention relates to an individual electronic locking unit of the type which is re-coded to the code associated with a new key means and at the same time makes the previously used code invalid by the introduction of a new key means having a new code. For the purpose of obtaining a favorable...     

A control apparatus for an automobile is provided with a system manager, which initiates and manages the operation of units for controlling and operating various devices and accessories installed in the automobile. The system manager is coupled with a card unit, in which a card is inserted. Such a card...     

A kind of pry-proof computerized mechanical lock which is an integrated lock structure of mechanism and circuit. The front half inside the lock has several plates. The rear half of the lock has a rotor and a fixed seat which supports conductive bars in a special line-up. These conductive bars are biased...     

A system for examining a passer having an ID card including a photograph and key data for searching registered data of the passer. This system has a data base storing registered data including a video image of the registered ID card owner, a video camera for capturing the passer's figure and a scanner...     

A prepaid card processing device processes a prepaid card provided with a memory for storing information related to an account and a printing portion on which monetary information is to be printed. The prepaid card processing device comprises a reading/writing portion for reading the information stored...