Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
  • G07B13/00—Taximeters
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C1/00—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people
  • G07C1/10—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method for identifying the user of a taximeter according to the preamble of the first claim.
• Methods for identifying the user of a taximeter are required for payroll accounting for taxi drivers employed in a taxi company.
• the accounting procedure must ensure that each driver is only paid for the trips and work shifts he has carried out. There is therefore a need for an unequivocal assignment of the work performed by a specific shift or journey to a driver.
• identification takes place, for example, by entering a driver number using control elements of the taximeter, or in the case of a taximeter that has a card reading device, by inserting or pulling through a driver identification card with a corresponding label on a magnetic strip, or by inserting a correspondingly programmed one Chip card or other electronic means of identification specially tailored to the taxi company's fleet.
• the solution provides that a user-specific, ie generally a driver-specific, data card is used for identification in a multifunctional manner.
• the taxi company therefore does not hand over any means of identification, but rather, for example, the Eurocheque card, a credit card, a branch card or another arbitrary, non-monetary data card approved in the name of the user is used as the means of identification. Since the data card thus belongs to the taxi driver or another user of the taximeter, a more responsible use of the means of identification is achieved due to the nature of the ownership relationship.
• a monetary, personal data card inherently contains a natural barrier for its owner to give it into unauthorized hands.
• the data cards provided correspond to the ISO standards 3554, 7811, 7812 and the regulations dependent thereon.
• the structure and data density of the data stored on the card is standardized.
• a signature is determined in the taximeter from the data content of the card, which cannot be changed by the user, as a code for identifying the user.
• all data related to a carried out driving order or a shift are assigned to the determined key figure in the registration part or in the memory of the taximeter. The key figure thus permits a personal assignment of a data record recorded by the taximeter during its operation.
• a clear criterion is then available for the payroll, in order to determine which driver has carried out which driving job or during which shift he was working.
• the driver when setting, decided which data card he would like to identify with in the future. He therefore hands over his Employer selected the means of identification so that the signature can be determined in the same way as later in the taximeter from a defined database of the card and stored as a key figure in the accounting system of the taxi company. It is an advantageous embodiment of the accounting system when it checks whether the same key figure that is still valid may have already been stored in the system. If this is the case, the newly hired driver can be asked to use a different data card as a means of identification.
• data cards Due to the standardization of the data structure of many common data cards and due to the feature according to the invention that not a certain information stored on the data card as such, but a signature formed from a larger number of data of the data card is used as an identification feature, different can be used in one and the same accounting system Data cards with the same security of use are permitted. On the other hand, if necessary, data cards can also be issued according to certain criteria, such as industry identification, the issuer, etc. analyzed, selected and, if necessary, also blocked for use as a means of identification in the respective taxi company.
• Authorization for access to certain data stored in the taximeter can also be linked to the identification by checking in the taximeter based on criteria stored there whether the determined key figure is permissible. For example, the authorization to read out all shift data may go hand in hand. However, authorizations can also be linked to the identification for the purpose of starting up the taximeter or the taxi vehicle.
• a standardized start character and a standardized end character are selected from the bit sequence.
• the entire bit sequence between the start and the end character and possibly the LRC character following the end character are subjected to an arithmetic operation with the aim of obtaining a number with a desired number of digits, which is then used as a code.
• leading bits or characters before the start character or the following bits after the end character and after the LRC character are written down as "0" characters according to the standard, but because of their edge position on the magnetic stripe they are suitable for reliable evaluation Not. So you will be ignored by the aforementioned limitation.
• the probability P of double occupancy of a key figure is determined by the number of active or already registered drivers in the EDP as well as by the number of digits available for the key figure, which also determines the thickness of its value range.
• the size of the key figure ie its number of digits, is usually determined as such by the data processing program used for billing the shifts.

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  • 1994-12-21 DE DE19944445670 patent/DE4445670A1/de not_active Ceased
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