KR100734841B1 - Fancy sticker-type RFID tag, privacy-secured on/off-line linking method, using the same and terminal device therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a fancy sticker type RFID tag, a security (privacy) enhanced on / offline connection method using the same, and a terminal device thereof. To this end, the terminal device includes an RFID reader and is linked with the privacy management system so that only a desired person can access the tag information.

In the existing RFID or mobile RFID application service model, operators attach RFID tags to products to use them for the purpose of logistics / distribution management, advertisement of products, and information transfer. In the present invention, users use RFID tags for personal purposes. In order to be utilized, it is necessary to store information related to its privacy or link information directly in a fancy sticker type RFID tag.

Accordingly, in the present invention, when the spread of the mobile device equipped with the RFID reader is activated and the value of the tag is low, and the mobile RFID service is activated, the present invention stores personal information or link information directly related to the privacy of the RFID tag. It can meet the needs of consumers who want to utilize, and provide reliable and safe service by providing privacy protection mechanism that only user can access the privacy related information or link information stored in RFID tag. have.

Description

Fancy sticker type RDF tag, and security (privacy) enhanced on / offline linkage method using the same and terminal device {Fancy sticker-type RFID tag, privacy-secured on / off-line linking method, using the same and terminal device therefor}

1A is a block diagram illustrating a fabrication and distribution procedure of a fancy sticker type RFID tag according to the present invention.

FIG. 1B is a block diagram illustrating a usage environment for linking on / offline using a fancy sticker type RFID tag and using the same in an enhanced privacy method according to the present invention.

2A is a flowchart illustrating a manufacturing and distribution procedure of a fancy sticker type RFID tag according to the present invention.

FIG. 2B is a flowchart illustrating the flow of data between components in order to link an online / offline using a fancy sticker type RFID tag and to utilize it in an enhanced privacy method. Referring to FIG.

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100 ... RFID tag 200 ... Mobile terminal

210 ... RFID Reader 300 ... Privacy Management System

400 ... Website System

The present invention relates to a fancy sticker type RFID tag, a security (privacy) enhanced on / offline connection method using the same, and a terminal device thereof.

Network communication using RFID is equipped with RFID chip in all necessary places, reads recognition information of object from RFID chip through RFID reader with built-in or external terminal capable of network communication, and based on the read information. It detects all the information around and manages the information by connecting to the network in real time by using the detected information. First of all, it develops around RFID which provides recognition information, and the detection function is added to the network between them. It is expected to evolve into a USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network) structure.

Among them, the mobile RFID service is a service that enables a consumer to acquire information related to a product based on the tag in a stage where an RFID tag is attached to a portable terminal and the article with the RFID tag is manufactured, logistics, and distributed.

Examples of service applications considered as mobile RFID services include tagging movie posters to provide movie information, tagging bus stops to guide buses, and tagging advertisement leaflets. Services, services that provide cultural property information by tagging cultural assets, services that provide information and payment by tagging books, DVDs, drugs, etc.

10-2005-43236 (05. 05. 11), which was published under the name of a method and system for providing advertisement information to a mobile communication terminal equipped with an RFID module of SK Telecom Co., Ltd., a mobile P2P brokering service using RFID technology. 10-2005-45631 (05.05.17), which discloses a method and system under the name of the invention, and 10-2004-90169, which discloses a method and system for providing digital content using a character article of Hong Jun-mo. 04. 10. 22) the prior art is disclosed.

However, application examples of the above-described mobile RFID service are RFID tag-based services attached by service providers for product management, advertisement, and information transfer. However, in contrast, a user purchases a fancy sticker-type RFID tag and stores the personalized data (e.g., his homepage address and phone number, favorite portal URL, music, books, movies, etc.) in the tag. A business model that allows you to save, attach it to any place you want (handbooks, diaries, notes, etc.) to manage your personal information, as well as provide your own personal representation by providing stickers to friends and people around you. Is not yet proposed. However, when the spread of mobile devices equipped with RFID readers is activated and the price of tags becomes low, mobile RFID service is activated. Therefore, it is obvious that users' desire to utilize RFID tags for personal use will increase.

However, unlike the RFID tag-based service attached by the service providers for the above purpose, this model has a mechanism to protect the user's privacy in that the user directly stores information or link information related to his or her privacy in the RFID tag. It is necessary, and therefore, to provide a means of ensuring that only the person desired by the user has access to this information.

A model that can utilize an RFID tag for a short cut function using a cell phone equipped with an RFID reader has been presented as an example of the use of a cell phone equipped with an RFID reader in Nokia. However, this model simply illustrates how to use a RFID tag to call a program stored in a mobile phone (such as making a phone call or running an application in the mobile phone), and to solve any business model or the above-mentioned privacy problem. An apparatus and method are not provided.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a fancy sticker type RFID tag that can store information or link information directly related to their privacy to meet the needs of consumers to personally utilize. .

Another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to store information or link information directly related to their privacy, so that the security (privacy) using a fancy sticker type RFID tag that can satisfy the needs of consumers to personally utilize ) It aims to provide a method of linking enhanced online / offline.

Another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to secure information using a fancy sticker type RFID tag that can directly store information related to its privacy or link information to satisfy the needs of consumers who want to utilize it personally. Privacy) It is an object of the present invention to provide a terminal device that connects enhanced on / offline.

Here, the fact that the operator associates the online / offline using the RFID tag means that the operator maps a specific online space to the sticker-type RFID tag on the offline and simultaneously provides the user with the RFID tag and the mapped online space. Means that the RFID tag is provided with an address (URL) on the online space and other information for utilizing the space recorded.

In addition, the model proposed by the present invention not only allows the operator to store information linking online / offline to be linked with an online website system, but also a user who purchases an RFID tag that does not store any information. This includes storing information in tags and allowing them to interact with online website systems.

Therefore, the problem to be solved in the present invention

-Providing a business model that connects online / offline using a fancy sticker type RFID tag and utilizes it as an enhanced privacy method

-Producing and Distributing RFID Tag to Link Offline RFID Tag with Online Space

-Summarize the use of deployed RFID tags and privacy protection procedures for them.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a requester of information to the online space through an RFID reader that can directly store information or link information related to their privacy and a mobile terminal capable of network communication connected to the reader Provides an offline fancy sticker type RFID tag.

In order to solve the above other technical problem, the present invention is a fancy sticker type RFID in the on / offline connection method using a mobile terminal network communication using the RFID tag and the website information read by the RFID reader Setting an access right to the stored information by using the RFID reader on the tag and directly storing information or link information related to his or her privacy or attaching an RFID tag storing information or link information desired by a business operator; Reading information from the RFID tag using the RFID reader; And when information related to the privacy or link information is read, communicate with the privacy management system using a mobile terminal (cell phone, PDA phone, etc.) connected to the RFID reader to access the information stored in the RFID tag. It provides a security-enhanced on-offline association method comprising the step of providing.

In order to solve the above another technical problem, the present invention is to set the information access authority in the on-line / offline-linked mobile terminal device using a mobile terminal for network communication using the website information read by the RFID tag and the RFID reader. An RFID reader for wirelessly recording information or link information related to its privacy or reading the information from the RFID tag wirelessly directly to a fancy sticker type RFID tag; And mobile terminals such as mobile phones and PDA phones that are connected to this RFID reader and a privacy management system that allows users to manage their privacy and check information access rights and link them to a website system connected with offline tags. It provides a terminal device comprising a.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1A is a block diagram illustrating a fabrication and distribution procedure of a fancy sticker type RFID tag according to the present invention. FIG. 1B is a block diagram illustrating a usage environment for linking on / offline using a fancy sticker type RFID tag and using the same in an enhanced privacy method according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1A, a fancy sticker type RFID tag 100 is manufactured by a business operator to enable writing, and is sold without storing any information on the manufactured RFID tag or connected to reading the RFID tag according to a business model. The address and associated information of the operator's website online may be stored. In this case, the operator provides the tag purchaser with an online storage / management space, which is referred to as the website system 400 in the present invention. Here, the web site system 400 is not limited to the online space provided by the operator, but may be replaced by another online system or a specific application program or content linked to the RFID tag by the user.

In the present invention, the RFID tag of the fancy sticker type is not shown in the drawings, but in general, a smart card shape in which an RFID chip is used, and a structure in which an RFID chip is embedded in a sticker material used for attaching a lot for fancy. Since there is no power source in the RFID tag, an induction coil is installed to receive power from an RFID reader or a terminal, and the RFID chip performs a function by receiving power from the induction coil.

Referring to FIG. 1A, when the RFID tag 100 purchased by the user is an RFID tag in which no information is stored, desired information is provided using an RF reader 210 provided with a writing function connected to the mobile terminal 200. Record it. Depending on the characteristics of the RFID tag, one or more rewrites may be possible, and the information stored at this time may simply be a URL address of a homepage that was previously managed, a phone number, a program call stored in a mobile terminal, It may be an execution code or the like, and complicated information may be stored according to the user's intention, such as the execution of home appliances controlled through the home network. At this time, the mobile terminal 200 sets information access authority through the RFID reader 210 to wirelessly record the information or link information related to its privacy directly on the fancy sticker type RFID tag 100. The information related to the privacy in which the information access right is set is notified to the privacy management system 300 by the mobile terminal 200.

The privacy management system 300 provides a function necessary when the user wants to access only his / her own information to the user when the online information is provided or the program is driven according to the information stored in the RFID tag. do. The privacy management system 300 is a system capable of setting and executing the control of information access authority according to the period in which information access is provided and the type of information provided in performing detailed access control for each user.

The website system 400 is a system for managing an online space secured online by an RF tag seller and sold to a buyer. The website system 400 may be a personal homepage production space or a space for providing content according to a business model of an operator. Can be. In addition, it can be given in the form of a web hard so that an individual can use it for various purposes. In the present invention, the online space utilization model is not limited.

The method of manufacturing and distributing a fancy sticker type RFID tag according to the present invention according to FIG. 1A includes (a) linking an on-line space provided by an operator to a fancy sticker type RFID tag and informing the related information to the RFID tag. RFID tag manufacturing step of storing; (b) purchasing a fancy sticker type RFID tag of a consumer; (c) if there is no information stored in the RFID tag, storing (Writing) information desired by the user (own homepage URL, telephone number, etc.) on the purchased sticker; (d) setting access rights to the stored information; And (e) attaching and distributing stickers (diary, notebook, notebook, etc.).

According to FIG. 1B, a method of utilizing information of an RFID tag 100 manufactured according to FIG. 1A includes: (a) reading an RFID tag with an RFID reader; (b) driving a resolution program in the mobile terminal to interpret the read RF code; (c) accessing the privacy management server by the executed program; (d) performing an authentication and access right check as to whether it is authorized to read the information associated with the RF code; And (e) an information providing step of providing online spatial information linked to the information stored in the offline RFID tag.

Since the embodiment of the present invention is to use the RFID tag for connecting the space on-line, but not only services that link the online / offline, but also stores the code for the user to run the application program specific to the RFID tag This can also be used as a shortcut function, and the shortcut function can also use the privacy-enhanced utilization method proposed by the present invention to limit the user so that only the authorized user can use it.

2A and 2B illustrate the flow of data between each component in order to connect on / offline using a fancy sticker type RFID tag and to utilize it in a method of enhanced privacy according to the present invention. . Figure 2a is a flow chart of the manufacturing step of the RFID tag, Figure 2b is a flow chart of the utilization step.

In the manufacturing of the RFID tag of FIG. 2A, in the manufacturing of the RFID tag of the fancy sticker type, the operator secures an online space to be provided to the buyer, and stores the information for accessing the RFID tag in the RFID tag. The empty tag can be produced without this step (20a). When selling an empty tag, an application mounted on a mobile terminal may be sold or provided together so that a user may create and store desired information in the tag. In both cases, a method for accessing the privacy management system 300 that a user needs to access when using a tag should be provided. For this purpose, an access address (URL: Universal Resources Locator) may be stored in an RFID tag, or The embedded application may include a connection method, or when using an online space provided by a company, a method of redirecting (redirection) directly from the website system to the privacy management system may be used. The detailed implementation method may vary depending on the service model of the operator. In addition, storing the access address in the RFID tag means that when the service environment is established according to the mobile RFID service network proposed by the mobile RFID forum, when the code stored in the RFID tag is resolved, an object directory service (RFD) This means that the location of the server (URL) that contains the information associated with the code stored in the tag, as a result, passes the URL of the system or content associated with the RFID tag online. A method of storing the address directly in the user area of the can also be used.

In the present invention, in the production and utilization of the tag, there is no limitation on the mechanism and detailed technology used to link the RFID tag with URIs (including URLs and URNs) such as online systems / contents. It can be implemented using technically feasible mechanisms to link RFID tags with online systems. The user purchases a fancy sticker-type RFID tag manufactured according to the above-described production step (22a), and when the empty tag is purchased, calls the application mounted on the mobile terminal 200 to generate desired information. And transmits it to the RF reader 210. The transmitted information is transmitted and stored in the RFID tag using the writing function of the RF reader (25a). If the stored information needs to be associated with any system / service / content on-line, a process of linking it is performed (26a). This can be done through providers that provide services similar to ODS, and this linking process can also be performed by selecting among the mechanisms that are technically available at the time of service. When the operator stores the URL address of the website system 400 in the RFID tag 100, the user may omit the process of storing information in the RFID tag 100 using the RFID reader 210. Then, in order to set the access right for the information online connected to the information stored in the RFID tag, the user accesses the privacy management system 300 through the mobile terminal 200 or the user PC according to the method provided by the operator, and then the privacy. The authority provided by the management system is used to set the right to access personalized information (28a). This access authority setting may be performed so that the user terminal may mutually authenticate before or after accessing the management server to access the information linked to the tag. The procedure of accessing the website system 400 connected to the RFID tag 100 to store and manage content may be performed before or after the privacy management system access procedure, and a connection between the two systems may be provided. The RFID tag 100 thus produced is attached and distributed (30a).

In the step of utilizing the RFID tag information of FIG. 2B, the requestor (hereinafter, the requester) who receives the RFID tag from the user and the user and requests access to the information connected thereto drives the RF reader 210 connected to his mobile terminal 200. Read the information stored in the RFID tag (20b). If the information read is a code, the website's address is obtained through a service that translates the code into a URL. The mobile terminal 220 accesses the address of the website for the read information (22b). The web site system 400, which is requested to access from the mobile terminal, identifies whether the user or the requestor is authenticated through the authentication procedure, and if the requester is the requester, redirects the requestor's request to the privacy management system 300 (24b). Upon receiving the request, the privacy management system 300 grants the requester access to the information according to the access control policy set by the user (26b) and transfers the information to the website system 400 (28b). The website system determines (30b) and provides (32b) information and services accessible to the requestor based on this information. The above-described procedure is one example of various methods of using RFID tags, and detailed implementation methods and procedures for providing a service may vary according to a service model (business model) of an operator.

In the existing RFID or mobile RFID application service model, operators use RFID tags for the purpose of logistics / distribution management of goods, advertisement of goods, delivery of information, and the like. In order to be able to utilize the (Fancy) sticker-type RFID tag to connect the on / offline and use it in a way of enhanced privacy, and a (Fancy) sticker type RFID tag, and security using it (privacy) An enhanced on / offline linkage method and a terminal device are provided. Accordingly, according to the present invention, as the utilization of the RFID tag becomes popular and the price is stabilized, it satisfies the desire of consumers to personally use the RFID tag and can provide a reliable and safe service by providing a privacy protection mechanism. .

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delete In the on / offline linkage method using a mobile terminal for network communication using the RFID tag and the website information read by the RFID reader, After setting the access right to the information stored using the RFID reader on the Fancy sticker type RFID tag by using the RFID reader, the user directly stores information or link information related to his or her privacy or Reading information from an RFID tag storing link information; And When information related to the privacy or link information is read, the mobile terminal connected to the RFID reader (cell phone, PDA phone, etc.) is used to communicate with the privacy management system to provide information when access rights are stored in the RFID tag. Security-enhanced on-offline association method comprising the step of. In the on-line / offline-linked mobile terminal device using a mobile terminal for network communication using the RFID tag and the website information read by the RFID reader, An RFID reader for setting information access rights to wirelessly record the information or link information related to its privacy or read the information from the offline RFID tag wirelessly directly on the offline RFID tag of the fancy sticker type; And It includes a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone and a PDA phone connected to the RFID reader and a privacy management system that allows a user to manage his or her privacy, and checks information access rights and links it to an online website system connected to an offline RFID tag. Terminal device characterized in that. delete In the method of utilizing the information of the fancy sticker type RFID tag, (a) reading an RFID tag with an RFID reader; (b) driving a resolution program in the mobile terminal to interpret the read RF code; (c) accessing the privacy management server by the executed program; (d) performing an authentication and access right check as to whether it is authorized to read the information associated with the RF code; And (e) accordingly, a method of utilizing the information of the Fancy sticker type RFID tag comprising the information providing step of providing online spatial information linked to the information stored in the offline RFID tag.

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