Line-based chip card tamper detection

US10621590B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• INC SQUARE, CO., LTD · JP

Inventors

• Afshin Rezayee · King City, CA
• Malcolm Smith · Toronto, CA
• Yue Yang · Chengdu, CN
• Jeremy Wade · San Francisco, US
• Max Guise · San Francisco, US
• Kamran Sharifi · Toronto, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 22, 2017
• Grant date: Apr 14, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F7/0873
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A payment processing device can implement a monitoring system to detect for tamper attempts at a chip card interface. The monitoring system can establish a baseline when no chip card is present in the chip card interface, or in some embodiments, when it is known that an authentic chip card 14 is present in the slot 21. During subsequent evaluations of the chip card interface by the monitoring system, a response received by the monitoring system that deviates from the baseline can indicate that a tamper attempt at the chip card interface may have occurred. If a tamper attempt is determined by the monitoring system, a remedial or corrective action can be taken.