Method for operating non-contact identification media

US7172128B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• LEGIC Identsystems AG · CH

Inventors

• Klaus Klosa · Hersbruck, DE
• Guy Petignat · Küsnacht (ZH), CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 25, 2002
• Grant date: Feb 6, 2007
• Expiry date: Jun 12, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F19/201
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

For operation of contact-less identification media in a system with contact applications for contact cards, an initialized converter module is connected in series as a read/write station. This converter module, on the one hand, executes a contact-less communication with initialized contact-less identification media and, on the other hand, a contact communication at a contact card interface to a host computer or to an application computer for the communication with a contact application of the system and the converter module translates the contact-less communication with respect to communication rules and information into a contact communication with contact information and vice versa and the initialization of the converter module is defined in a hierarchic authorization system. This makes possible a particularly simple and efficient introduction of contact-less identification media into existing contact card systems and—installations.