Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Patent
1981-06-26
1983-05-24
Pitts, Harold I.
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
2353825, 235375, G06K 706
Patent
active
043852319
ABSTRACT:
An unlocking system is used with cards each having recorded thereon a secret number, a plurality of subnumbers, a specifying code for selecting at least one of the subnumbers, and an effective period. The system comprises a card reader for reading the data recorded on the card, a memory for storing a secret number, specifying code and effective period, and a processing unit for unlocking. The processing unit reduces the effective period stored in the memory by 1 in terms of unit time, e.g. 1 day, upon lapse of every unit time, e.g. 1 day or 24 hours. The unit further compares the secret number on the card with the secret number in the memory and gives an unlocking instruction when a match is found between the two secret numbers, with the effective period in the memory exceeding a predetermined period, e.g. 0. When the secret number on the card is not identical with the secret number in the memory, the processing unit checks whether or not the two secret numbers are in a predetermined relation established with use of the subnumber selected by the specifying code in the memory from among the plurality of subnumbers on the card, and gives an unlocking instruction and stores in the memory for renewal the secret number, the effective period and the specifying code on the card.
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patent: Re29259 (1977-06-01), Sabsay
patent: Re29846 (1978-11-01), Genest
patent: 3800284 (1974-03-01), Zucker
patent: 3821704 (1974-06-01), Sabsay
patent: 3926021 (1975-12-01), Genest
Egashira Hiroshi
Kasugai Shigeru
Mizutani Kazuo
Nakamura Masaharu
Omron Tateisi Electronics Co.
Pitts Harold I.
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