KR101134583B1 - Traffic Card Terminal Accepting Multiple Service Provider - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a traffic card terminal for accommodating a plurality of operators. More specifically, the traffic card terminal according to the present invention includes a control module, a PSAM (Purcharge Secure Application Module) module, an antenna and a contact card reader, the control module, the antenna and the contact card reader Control to perform data transmission and reception with a separate transportation card, and control the PSAM module to query the operator identification information based on a vector address assigned from the separate transportation card, and to correspond to the inquired operator identification information. After the transaction related information is inquired and stored, based on this, the payment transaction information is generated and stored after performing the payment transaction with the separate transportation card.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to carry out transactions with a transit card quickly and efficiently by recognizing the operator of the transit card in a parallel priority method when transacting with a transit card. It contributes to building stability.

Traffic card, parallel priority, terminal, processing

Description

Traffic Card Terminal Accepting Multiple Service Provider

The present invention relates to a traffic card terminal that can accommodate a plurality of operators, and more particularly, based on a vector address based on a parallel priority scheme given to operator identification information for identifying a plurality of transportation operators. The present invention relates to a traffic card terminal for performing a transaction with the traffic card by classifying and querying a traffic provider.

In general, a transit card means an electronic card for paying for the use of public transportation.Since the introduction of the transit card in Korea in 1996, more than 50 million transit cards have been issued to date. The transit card system is operating in the metropolitan area, which is used by more than 70% of the average daily daily users.

Such a transportation card is in accordance with the ISO 7816 standard according to its function and scope of use, and is a contact card that performs transactions by contacting the card with the terminal. It is classified into a contactless card which secures security by having a CPU inside, a contactless card that receives power from a terminal through an internal antenna of the card, a hybrid card and a combination card in which the contact card and the contactless card are integrated.

As mentioned above, the above-mentioned types of transportation cards are introduced to provide convenience for traffic users and at the same time to facilitate efficient management for transportation operators. However, different transportation cards have been established for each card. There was a inconvenience to build a separate terminal system according to.

Accordingly, a nationally compatible transit card system is required, and in 2006, the prepaid IC card standard, which is a transit card standard, was enacted as the Industrial Standard Specification (KS), creating a technical basis for national transit card compatibility. As part of the “One Card All Pass Standard Technology Development and Testbed Operation Project”, compatible transport card standards are being developed.

On the other hand, if it is possible to process a large number of transportation providers in the existing transportation card terminal, after recognizing whether the transportation card is issued by any transportation provider according to the Daisy-Chain method for transactions with the transportation card, the recognition fails In this case, whether or not it is issued by another arbitrary transportation operator in turn recognizes that there is a problem that the processing speed of the terminal is delayed.

Therefore, the present invention discloses a traffic card terminal that solves the problems of the above-described conventional traffic card terminal with the compatible traffic card as a technical background as follows.

An object of the present invention is that, if the existing traffic card terminal accommodates a plurality of transport providers, the transport operators are sequentially recognized by the daisy-chain method to perform a transaction with the transport card. On the premise of assigning a vector address based on a parallel priority method, a traffic card terminal capable of acquiring a plurality of operators by conducting a transaction with the traffic card by searching a transport company by the vector address is provided. have.

The traffic card terminal according to the present invention includes a control module, a PSAM (Purcharge Secure Application Module) module, an antenna and a contact card reader, and the control module controls the antenna and the contact card reader to separate traffic. Perform data transmission and reception with a card, and control the PSAM module to perform a payment transaction with the separate transportation card based on data received from the separate transportation card, generate and store payment transaction information, and The PSAM module, according to the control of the control module, inquires the operator identification information based on the vector address assigned to the separate traffic card, and then inquires and stores the transaction related information corresponding to the operator identification information, The payment transaction information is generated and stored after performing the payment transaction with the separate traffic card based on the transaction related information.

In this case, the control module transmits a command to perform data transmission and reception with the separate transportation card for the contact card interface and the contactless card interface, and transmits the data received from the separate transportation card to the PSAM module. A control unit for transmitting a command to generate and store payment transaction information after performing a payment transaction with the separate transportation card based on the payment; A contact card interface which controls the contact card reader according to a command of the controller to perform data transmission / reception using the first communication scheme with the separate traffic card; And a contactless card interface that controls the antenna to transmit and receive data according to a second communication scheme with the separate traffic card according to a command of the controller. It is preferable to include.

In this case, the PSAM module controls the information retrieval unit to inquire and store the operator identification information based on the vector address assigned in the separate traffic card, and to query and store the transaction related information corresponding to the operator identification information. A transaction performing unit configured to generate and store payment transaction information by controlling a payment information storage unit after performing a payment transaction with the separate traffic card based on the transaction related information corresponding to the operator identification information; According to the control of the transaction execution unit, inquiring the operator identification information corresponding to the vector address by inquiring the vector address given in the separate transportation card, and then query and store the transaction related information corresponding to the operator identification information An information inquiry unit; And a payment information storage unit generating and storing payment transaction information with the separate traffic card under the control of the transaction execution unit. It is preferable to include.

In this case, the preset first communication scheme may be an ISO 7816 scheme, and the preset second communication scheme may be any one of an ISO 14443 A-type scheme, an ISO 14443 B-type scheme, and a Mifare scheme.

According to the present invention, when the transit card is recognized in a parallel priority (Parallel Priority) method when dealing with a transit card, a faster and more efficient transit card as the traffic provider recognition processing speed becomes faster than a conventional transit card terminal. It is possible to deal with.

In addition, according to the present invention, by accommodating a plurality of transport providers, by providing a traffic card terminal capable of performing transactions with the traffic card quickly and efficiently, contributing to the construction of a nationally compatible transport card system and to ensure reliability and stability It also works.

Before describing the details for carrying out the present invention, it should be noted that configurations that are not directly related to the technical gist of the present invention are omitted within the scope of not distracting the technical gist of the present invention. In addition, the terms or words used in the present specification and claims are intended to comply with the technical spirit of the present invention based on the principle that the inventor can define the concept of appropriate terms in order to best explain the invention. It should be interpreted as a concept.

Hereinafter, prior to describing the traffic card terminal according to the present invention, a compatible traffic card used in the traffic card terminal according to the present invention will be described in detail.

In the present invention, the compatible transportation card is a “One Card All” led by the Ministry of Construction and Transportation in order to solve the user's inconvenience and overlapping investment of the operator due to the transportation card payment, payment and settlement system which is differently established for each region or each business operator. As part of the "Pass Standard Technology Development and Test Bed Operation Project", the compatible high pluses were made to be compatible with the railroad card company KORAIL, the bus and subway card company, the KFTC, and the highway card company HiPlus. (Hiplus) transportation card, compatible X-cash transportation card and compatible K-cash transportation card.

In the case of a compatible traffic card used in a traffic card terminal according to the present invention, a microprocessor (MPU), a memory, a card operation system (COS), a security algorithm (SAM), and an EEPROM are included. It is preferable.

The Card Operation System (COS) has a tree structure of a directory structure such as a dedicated file (DF) and an element file (EF). In addition, an ADF (Add Divert File) called CONFIG DF is added for the use of a traffic card terminal in a traffic card terminal owned by a plurality of transportation providers. The CONFIG DF has an element file named EFCONFIG and EFCONFIG2 in the following hierarchical structure. It plays a role of providing information about the use of transportation card compatible to the outside.

The EFCONFIG is a card specification information for storing the specification of the separate transportation card, support item information for displaying this when the transportation card supports only a part of the compatible transportation card standard, a transportation operator designated by the Korea Electronic Payment Industry Association ID _CENTER information for describing the unique number of the user, balance inquiry command information used for inquiring the balance of the card in the traffic card terminal, and the unique AID (Access IDentification) assigned to each transport provider for the ADF (Add Divert File) Traffic compatible ADF AID information, additional information file responsible for inquiry and recording of information, holder information indicating information of the person holding the traffic card, expiration date information which is information on the expiration date of the traffic card, etc. It includes.

At this time, the ID _CENTER information is unique identification information given to each transport company, each transport company has a unique ID _CENTER It has a vector address for displaying information.

In addition, the vector address assigned by the Korea Electronic Payment Industry Association to display the unique ID _CENTER information assigned to each service provider is 0x00, which is a reserved area, 0x01, which is a financial settlement operator, and 0x02, which is an Acash operator. 0x03 is a mibi operator, 0x04 is a reserved area, 0x05 is a VCash operator, 0x06 is a Mondex Korea operator, and 0x07 is a Korea Highway Corporation operator. In addition, 0x08 is Korea Smart Card Business, 0x09 is Korail Networks Business, 0x0A is reserved, and 0x0B is EB Business.

In this case, the holder information includes information indicating whether the user using the separate transportation card is a general, child, adolescent, a route, or a disabled person, and the CONFIG DF in the separate transportation card optionally includes EFCONFIG2. If it is, and further includes information indicating whether it corresponds to a car, bus or van.

In this case, the expiration date information stores the expiration date of the postpaid transportation card in a 'YYMM' format when the separate transportation card corresponds to a postpaid transportation card.

In this case, the balance inquiry command information corresponds to information for allowing the traffic card terminal to inquire about the balance remaining on the separate traffic card when the separate traffic card corresponds to a rechargeable or prepaid traffic card.

The EFCONFIG2 is an optional file, and is added only when the compatible traffic card supports the high pass function of the Korea Expressway Corporation.

However, the traffic card used in the traffic card terminal according to the present invention is not limited to the compatible traffic card according to the "One Card All Pass standard technology development and test bed operation business" described above, and other traffic than the compatible traffic card Include cards too.

It will be described below in detail based on the accompanying drawings for the traffic card terminal according to the present invention. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a traffic card terminal according to the present invention.

Traffic card terminal according to the present invention, the control module 100, PSAM (Purcharge Secure Application Module) module 300, the antenna 500 and the contact card reader 700.

First, the control module 100 controls the antenna 500 and the contact card reader 700 to perform data transmission and reception with a separate traffic card, and controls the PSAM module 300 to control the PSAM module 300. It performs a function of performing a payment transaction with the separate transportation card and generating and storing payment transaction information based on the data received from the separate transportation card. The control module 100 includes a control unit 110, a contact card interface 130, and a contactless card interface 150.

The control unit 110 transmits a command to perform data transmission and reception with the separate transportation card to the contact card interface 130 and the contactless card interface 150, and to the PSAM module 300 It performs a function of transmitting a command to generate and store payment transaction information after performing a payment transaction with the separate transportation card based on the data received from the traffic card.

The contact card interface 130 controls the contact card reader 700 according to a command of the controller 110 to perform data transmission and reception using the separate communication card and a first communication scheme. In this case, the preset first communication method is preferably an ISO 7816 method.

However, the preset first communication method is not limited to the above-mentioned method and includes all types of contact communication methods.

The contactless card interface 150 controls the antenna 500 according to a command of the controller 110 to perform data transmission / reception using the second communication scheme with the separate traffic card. The established second communication scheme is preferably any one of an ISO 14443 A-type scheme, an ISO 14443 B-type scheme, and a Mifare scheme.

However, the preset second communication method is not limited to the above-mentioned method, and includes all types of contactless communication methods.

Next, under the control of the control module 100, the PSAM module 300 inquires and stores the operator identification information based on the vector address assigned to the separate traffic card, and then the operator identification information. Search and store transaction-related information corresponding to the service information, and generate and store payment transaction information after performing a payment transaction with the separate transportation card based on the transaction-related information. The PSAM module 300 includes a transaction execution unit 310, an information inquiry unit 330, and a payment information storage unit 350.

The transaction execution unit 310 controls the information inquiry unit 330 to search and store the operator identification information based on the vector address given in the separate traffic card, and then relates to the transaction corresponding to the operator identification information. After the information is retrieved and stored, and based on the transaction-related information corresponding to the operator identification information, after performing the payment transaction with the separate traffic card, the payment information storage unit 350 is controlled to generate and store payment transaction information. Perform the function to make it work.

The information inquiry unit 330, under the control of the transaction execution unit 310, inquires the vector address given in the separate traffic card, and inquires and stores the operator identification information corresponding to the vector address. After that, it performs a function to query and store transaction-related information corresponding to the operator recognition information.

In this case, when the information inquiry unit 330 is described in more detail, in order to search for operator identification information from the separate traffic card, parallel priorities (parrellel priority) to the operator identification information individually assigned to each transport provider. It is assumed that a vector address is given by the scheme.

Accordingly, after the traffic card terminal confirms the vector address assigned to the operator identification information from the separate transportation card, it is preferable to inquire the operator identification information according to the corresponding vector address.

The traffic card terminal inquires and stores transaction related information corresponding to the operator identification information, and the transaction related information includes user information and additional information. In this case, the user information includes information indicating whether the separate traffic card user is a general, child, adolescent, a route, a disabled person, the transportation time information of the separate traffic card user, and the traffic of the separate traffic card user. Sudan ride point information, etc. It is preferable to include, and the additional information is the card validity period information when the separate transportation card is a postpaid transportation card and the current balance information, if the separate transportation card is a prepaid transportation card, It is preferable to include information on whether or not the transfer means of a separate transportation card user.

Therefore, after determining whether a traffic card terminal which processes a plurality of carriers has been issued by a traffic provider for a traffic card by a daisy-chain method, it cannot be seen as a traffic card issued by the traffic provider. In this case, the processing speed of the payment transaction with the traffic card is improved as compared to the method of determining whether the traffic card is recognized by a traffic card issued by another transport company.

For example, when the separate transportation card corresponds to the above-mentioned compatible transportation card, a case in which the information retrieval unit 330 inquires the operator identification information and transaction related information will be described in detail.

The ID _CENTER information included in the CONFIG DF in the compatible traffic card corresponds to unique identification information of the transport company that issued the compatible traffic card, and each of the transport companies has a parallel priority for the ID _CENTER information. The vector address by the method is given.

Therefore, after the transportation card terminal views a vector address assigned based on the ID _CENTER information stored in the My CONFIG DF information, the separate transport card, so as to display the ID _CENTER information of transport operator that corresponds to the query vector address Preferably, the traffic card terminal inquires and stores the identification information, which is the identification information individually assigned to the traffic provider that issued the separate traffic card.

Then, the traffic card terminal inquires the holder information included in the CONFIG DF in the compatible transportation card as user information, and inquires the expiration date information and the balance inquiry command information included in the above-described CONFIG DF as additional information. Preferably, the user information and additional information are stored as transaction related information.

The payment information storage unit 350 performs a function of generating and storing payment transaction information with the separate traffic card under the control of the transaction execution unit 310.

In this case, the payment transaction information, the transaction time information which is information on the occurrence time of the payment transaction between the separate traffic card and the traffic card terminal, the fee for the payment transaction between the separate traffic card and the traffic card Information on transaction rates, information on boarding and disembarkation information on the point at which the vehicle was boarded or disembarked using the separate transportation card, and information on time of getting on or off the transportation means using the separate transportation card It is preferable to include etc.

Next, the antenna 500, the separate traffic card and the traffic supporting any one of the ISO 14443 A-type, ISO 14443 B-type and the Mifare method according to the control of the control module 100 Performs data transmission and reception by a contactless communication method between card terminals.

Lastly, the contact card reader 700 performs data transmission and reception by a contact communication card supporting the ISO 7816 method and the contact card communication method under the control of the control module 100. .

Hereinafter, the operating procedure of the traffic card terminal according to the present invention will be described in detail based on the accompanying drawings. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation procedure of a traffic card terminal according to the present invention.

First, the traffic card terminal recognizes a separate traffic card, and then inquires a vector address based on a parallel priority scheme assigned in the separate traffic card (S100).

Then, the traffic card terminal inquires and stores the operator identification information corresponding to the vector address inquired from the separate traffic card (S200). In this case, the method for inquiring the operator recognition information is as described above.

Next, the traffic card terminal searches and stores card user information and additional information in a separate traffic card corresponding to the searched operator identification information based on the searched operator identification information (S300). In this case, the method of inquiring the user information and the additional information is as described above.

In this case, when the separate traffic card is a compatible traffic card, the traffic card terminal inquires and stores the holder information included in the above-described CONFIG DF as card user information, and the validity period information included in the above-described CONFIG DF and It is preferable to query and store the balance inquiry command information as additional information.

Next, the traffic card terminal, based on the user information and the additional information inquired from the separate traffic card, performs a payment transaction with the separate traffic card (S500). In this case, the user information and the additional information are as described above.

Finally, the traffic card terminal generates payment transaction information which is information on payment transaction with the separate traffic card, stores it, and ends (S700). In this case, the payment transaction information is as described above.

As described above, the present invention has been described and illustrated with reference to a preferred embodiment for illustrating the spirit of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described configuration and operation as shown. In addition, those skilled in the art will appreciate that many changes and modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, inventions which have been subjected to all appropriate changes and modifications and inventions belonging to the equivalents of the present invention should also be regarded as belonging to the present invention.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a traffic card terminal according to the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation procedure of a traffic card terminal according to the present invention.

<Description of Major Symbols in Drawing>

100: control module

110 control unit 130 contact card interface

150: contactless card interface

300: PSAM module

310: transaction execution unit 330: information inquiry unit

350: payment information storage unit

500: antenna 700: contact card reader

Claims (6)

In the traffic card terminal, including a control module 100, a charge secure application module (PSAM) module 300, an antenna 500 and a contact card reader 700, The control module 100 controls the antenna 500 and the contact card reader 700 to perform data transmission and reception with a traffic card, each of which is assigned a vector address to a plurality of operator identification information, and the PSAM. Control the module 300 to perform a payment transaction with the traffic card based on the data received from the traffic card, generate and store payment transaction information, The PSAM module 300, in response to the control of the control module 100, inquires the operator identification information based on the vector address given to the traffic card, and then displays transaction related information corresponding to the operator identification information. Inquiry and storage, and after performing the payment transaction with the traffic card based on the transaction related information, characterized in that for generating and storing payment transaction information, The PSAM module 300, The information retrieval unit 330 is controlled to search and store the operator recognition information based on the vector address given in the traffic card, and to search and store transaction related information corresponding to the operator recognition information. A transaction performing unit 310 for generating and storing payment transaction information by controlling a payment information storage unit 350 after performing a payment transaction with the traffic card based on the transaction related information corresponding to the transaction information; Under the control of the transaction execution unit 310, inquiring and storing the operator identification information corresponding to the vector address by inquiring the vector address given in the traffic card, and then the transaction related information corresponding to the operator identification information An information inquiry unit 330 for inquiring and storing the information; And A payment information storage unit 350 for generating and storing payment transaction information with the traffic card under the control of the transaction execution unit 310; Traffic card terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The control module 100, Sends a command to the contact card interface 130 and the contactless card interface 150 to perform data transmission and reception with the traffic card, and transmits a command to the PSAM module based on the data received from the traffic card. A control unit 110 for transmitting a command to generate and store payment transaction information after performing a payment transaction; A contact card interface 130 controlling the contact card reader 700 to perform data transmission / reception using the first communication scheme with the traffic card according to a command of the controller 110; And A contactless card interface 150 that controls the antenna 500 to perform data transmission / reception using the second communication scheme with the traffic card according to a command of the controller 110; Traffic card terminal comprising a. The method of claim 2, The preset first communication scheme is an ISO 7816 scheme, The preset second communication scheme is any one of an ISO 14443 A-type scheme, an ISO 14443 B-type scheme, and a Mifare scheme. delete 4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The transaction related information, the traffic card terminal, characterized in that it comprises a user information and additional information. 4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The payment transaction information, the traffic card terminal, characterized in that it comprises transaction time information, transaction fee information, getting on and off information and getting on and off time information.

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