Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
  • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
  • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
  • G06K19/08—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means
  • G06K19/083—Constructional details
  • G06K19/086—Constructional details with markings consisting of randomly placed or oriented elements, the randomness of the elements being useable for generating a unique identifying signature of the record carrier, e.g. randomly placed magnetic fibers or magnetic particles in the body of a credit card
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
  • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
  • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
  • G06K19/08—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means
  • G06K19/10—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards

Definitions

• the present invention relates to an authentication system comprising an authentication device operating in tandem with a set of digitized and physical identifiers provided on an object to authenticate the said object without needing to communicate with remote systems.
• Authentication of objects conventionally is done by providing an object with digitized information that is embedded in a device such as a chip which is generally accessed by a reading device and then transmitted to a remote system wherein the transmitted information is verified with the stored information in a database of digitized information to provide a confirmation of the identification and authentication of the same.
• the reliability of such authentication systems is dependent on the whether the digitized information on the object is duplicable and/or clonable. Further such authentication systems need fast responsive communication systems so that the verification and authentication process is made possible in real time.
• a typical authentication system for identification and authentication of a person comprises identification information typically in the form of a chip embedded with digitized fingerprint of the person (who is owner / original user of the object / card).
• the user has to provide image of his/her finger (on a biometric device), generally of thumb. This image is converted into digital form and further compared with the already stored image of the user in the chip provided on the object / card. It is common practice to embed a person's thumb impression in a digitized form on say an identification card.
• the verification process involves a biometric process in which the person actually places his thumb on a thumb impression reader, and the system verifies the impression of the thumb placed on the reader and the digitized thumb impression on the card or the stored images in the databases to complete the authentication process.
• the present invention addresses shortcomings of the prior art and provides authentication device that enables local capturing and reading of non-clonable identifier features on an object, converting the same in a secure digitized form, accessing the secure digitized information from a device chip on/in the object and further locally processing the same so as to authenticate the object thereby obviating the need of communicating any information to a remote system providing comprehensive / entire authentication process at the location of the authentication.
• the present invention relates to an authentication system comprising an authentication device operating in tandem with a set of digitized and physical identifiers provided on an object to authenticate the said object without needing to communicate with remote systems.
• Another object of the invention is to provide object / package with at-least one unique non- clonable identifier and the same being embedded in digitized form in a device such as a chip in/on the object.
• Yet another object of the invention is to provide an authentication device that enables authentication of the object / package at the location of authentication.
• Yet another object of the invention is to provide in the authentication device means to access the unique non-clonable identifiers on/in an object and convert them in secured digitized signals.
• Yet another object of the invention is to provide an authentication device that accesses the embedded digitized information in/on an object and / or in a local repository for example a chip / encrypted 2D Barcodes, deciphers and compares the said secure digitized signals to authenticate the object / package.
• Another object of the invention is to provide an authentication device with wired and/ or wireless networking capabilities.
• the authentication device upon interaction with an object containing at-least one unique non-clonable feature and a local repository embedded on/in the object containing the digitized information of said unique non-clonable feature(s)
• V Optionally transmits the accessed signal from the object in a digitized form to a remote data processing system for information processing and archival and receive the processed data to provide authentication including appropriate desired additional information to the user.
• FIG 1 Schematic of the system (Sheet 1)
• FIG 2 Schematic of the card (Sheet 2)
• FIG 3 Schematic of embodiment of authentication device (Sheet 3)
• Figure 1 depicts schematic of the configuration of the authentication system of the present invention.
• the system comprises of an authentication device 102 that functions to authenticate object 1 such as card, package, gadget etc.
• the authentication device is adapted to removably receive the said object 1 or interact with the object 1.
• the said device 102 is provided with a slot 103 to removably receive the said object 1.
• the authentication device further comprises of first reading element for reading the non-clonable unique identifier provided on the object.
• the second reading element is provided to capture the embedded digitized information from the object.
• the tracking / aligning element is provided to position the reading element.
• the device is further provided with a real-time data processing and data storage device with non-volatile memory embedded with a processing engine.
• the said engine is configured with the first and second reading element, input/ output interfaces, user-interaction means, network interface (not shown), data decoding means, serial port driver, digital port driver, digital engine, analog port driver, analog to digital converter; USB/Ethernet port driver, USB/Ethernet engine, network communication engine (not shown).
• the object 1 may be in the form of a card, package but not limited to it.
• the object 1 is provided with unique identifier X and a chip Y embedded with digitized information that correlates to the said unique identifier.
• Figure 1 (b) schematically depicts the operational aspect of the system.
• the said authentication device 102 interacts with the object 1.
• the system operates wherein the first reading element of the authentication device access the said unique identifier on the object and converts the same to a digitized signal using the decoding means, the second reading element extracts the embedded digitized information from the said chip on/in the object,
• the processing engine compares the said acquired digitized signal from the object and the extracted information from the said chip,
• the user interactive means provides the end user an authentication report.
• the authentication device 102 of the present invention enables completion of the entire authentication process without the involvement of any remote system.
• the said authentication device is configured / docked with communication device/s such as PC, mobile phone etc. so as to communicate via such devices to remote server.
• the device 102 is adapted to upload / communicated information / data to remote system / server.
• the said unique identifier X is set of character/s, images, coded information, physically randomly generated information in combination wherein the said combination is treated as an identification feature.
• the said unique identification information X comprises of a readable layer of randomly distributed material which is capable of encoding identification information, for example a conductive material, magnetized or magnetisable material, semi-conductive particle and optically active particles; the second identifier suitably comprises optical information, for example a 1-D or 2-D bar code.
• unique identifying information is suitably included on the package in the form of oriented or orientable particles and may relate to for example, the manufacturer of the package or to an individual.
• the identification information comprises information derived from a magnetic field and/or an electric field and optionally optical or magneto-optical information.
• the identification feature comprise of a substantially non-magnetic host material having pores, wherein at least some of the pores contain a substantially magnetic material which is codeable to encode identification information for identifying the product package or a unit dose package.
• the identification feature may comprise a substantially electrically-insulating host material having pores, wherein at least some of the pores contain a substantially electrically- conducting material which is codeable to encode identification information for identifying the unit dose package.
• the electrically-conducting material is connectable to a voltage source.
• the said object 1 is the form of a card 20 is illustrated in Figure 2. It comprises of an integrated circuit chip 21 embedded in it.
• the integrated circuit is typically a memory chip or a microprocessor chip with embedded memory.
• the said card 20 further comprises of a unique identifier (mentioned as X in the above description) in the form of a non-duplicable feature 23 disposed above or below which is a timing clock means 22 for normalization of the speed at which the non-duplicable feature will be swiped in the reader 103.
• This timing clock means is selected from a linear barcode, a magnetic strip having pre-defined spaces between 0's and 1 's or simply black and white functions in the form of lines / marks spaced at specific distances.
• timing clock means itself is a unique identifier such as a serialised barcode wherein the barcode is the timing clock means and the set of numerals / digits forms unique identifier.
• the non-duplicable feature 23 is affixed / embedded / surface coated / surface printed on the card 20.
• the said timing clock means 22 is then affixed / printed adjacent to the said non-duplicable feature 23 in such a manner that when the non- duplicable feature sensor reads the feature, the speed of reading is also recordable.
• the card with pre-embedded chip 21 is used.
• the said chip is affixed on the card during manufacturing process.
• the non-duplicable feature 23 is treated to enable signal generation that is captured by corresponding sensor in the reader 103.
• the preferred treatment is magnetization which is then read using magnetic resistance sensors - GMR sensors such as Sensitec GF 705, NVE corporations AA002-2.
• the said timing clock means 22 is read using optical sensors.
• Optical Sensor comprises of LED / laser emitter and photocell detector wherein LED / laser emitter & photocell detector can be integrated into one device or could be discrete.
• the sensors are selected from Rohm RPR-359F (LED emitter), Finnisar HSV6003-001 laser emitter.
• the non-duplicable feature 23 is read along with the timing clock means 22 and converted into a reference digital signal read at a certain speed using the timing clock sensor 31 ( Figure 3) of the reader 103.
• This digital signal / information is then encrypted using symmetric or asymmetric encryption methods and then stored as an encrypted reference signal.
• the symmetric encryption is accomplished by using symmetric encryption algorithms such as AES 128 (256), Blowfish, DES, Triple DES.
• the asymmetric encryption is accomplished by using asymmetric / public key cryptography algorithms such as RSA, PGP, Rabin EL Gamal.
• the encryption can also be accomplished by the integrated circuit chip 21.
• the encrypted reference signal is then stored into the integrated circuit chip 21.
• FIG 3 illustrates one of the embodiments of the authentication device used for such a card.
• the said card 20 provided with the non-duplicable feature 23, timing clock means 22 and integrated circuit chip 21 loaded with reference signal of the non-duplicable feature is read using the authentication device 102 (as mentioned in the description above) is in the form of a reader 103. It comprises of a unique identifier (non-duplicable feature) sensor 30 and the Timing mark sensor 31.
• the controller board (not shown in Figure 3) of the said reader 103 comprises of microprocessor/s with configured interface to read smart card chip 21 using dedicated protocol.
• the said microprocessor is configured to provide interface between the timing sensor 31 and non-duplicable feature sensor 30.
• the said reader further comprises of external communication means such as USB, blue tooth, WiFi, GPS, GPRS.
• a tailored decryption key is provided in the said reader during the process of manufacture.
• the reader is securely functionalised either by the distributor or authorised competent entity that is provided with the counter key dedicated to each of the readers in the field.
• the competent entity includes an individual, group of individuals, organisation etc. Thus the reader is protected from unauthorised usage and counterfeit issues.
• the said reader is provided with a user interactive means such as display for indicating retrieved information from the memory chip of the said card.
• the said reader is configured to communicate with an independent display means like mobile phone, computer to display the information retrieved from the memory chip.
• the said card 20 is of contact less type or near field communication featured wherein instead of the information from the chip 21 is read by the near field communication enabled features by bringing the said card in the proximity of the said reader.
• the said card is further provided with a non-duplicable feature 23 and timing clock means 22.
• the smart card is swiped through the reader which enables the sensor to read the said non duplicable feature the other information is read using near field communication means/ interface.
• the system therefore provides for a method to authenticate the object using an irrefutable authentication system comprising:
• the system further provides a method to authenticate the object using an irrefutable authentication system providing authentication information to the user by interactive means comprising:
• symmetric encryption is accomplished by using symmetric encryption algorithms such as AES 128 (256), Blowfish, DES, Triple DES,
• the asymmetric encryption is accomplished by using asymmetric / public key cryptography algorithms such as RSA, PGP, Rabin EL Gamal,

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