KR20120025025A - System and method for furnishing personal information with using rfid name card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A personal information supplying system using a wireless authentication name card and a method thereof are provided to obtain a wireless authentication function through an RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) tag. CONSTITUTION: An RFID tag is attached to a name card(110). The RFID tag maintains the authentication information of a first user. A server(130) stores personal information of the first user which is mapped to authentication information. An RFID reader(151) reads out authentication information of the first user from the RFID tag. A second user terminal is connected to the RFID reader.

Description

System and method for providing personal information using wireless authentication business card {System and Method for Furnishing Personal Information with Using RFID Name Card}

The present invention provides a business card with a wireless authentication function using an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tag so that the person who receives the business card can easily store the personal information of the business card provider in his or her mobile phone or computer using the business card. It relates to a system and method for providing personal information using a wireless authentication business card.

In recent years, it is becoming more and more common to use the address book by inputting the addresses of people related to themselves (new contacts) in not only computers but also mobile phones, smart phones and other portable devices (hereinafter referred to as 'terminals'). . The terminal is equipped with a 'contact management program', also known as 'address book', and the contact management program stores and manages information about a contact and provides a simple search function for the stored information.

The contact management program goes beyond simply writing the name and phone number of a contact. The company's name, company address, company's main phone number, fax number, contact's e-mail address, contact's homepage and other contacts. It allows you to enter all the information about your contacts, such as your face photo, and its use is increasing because it provides a convenient search function based on this information.

However, for ordinary users, entering all the information about a contact into the address book can be cumbersome, and since not all the information about a contact is usually needed, enter the name and phone number of the contact. It is normal to do it.

Therefore, even when special information about a contact, such as an operator's address or e-mail address, is needed, if the necessary information is not registered in advance in the device's contact management program, the user may not be able to use the functions such as easy search provided by the device. You can't expect benefits, and you're looking for a business card you've received.

On the other hand, when you meet a new person in your business, your business card is basically giving and receiving. The business card includes various information, but the information of the business card is not digitalized unless the user directly inputs the contact management program of the terminal as described above.

An object of the present invention is to give a business card a wireless authentication function using an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tag so that the person who receives the business card can easily store the personal information of the business card provider in his or her mobile phone or computer using the business card. In addition, the present invention provides a personal information providing system and method using a wireless authentication business card.

Personal information providing method using a wireless authentication business card to achieve the above object, according to the control of the second user, the contact registration unit of the terminal connected to the RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) reader is initiated operation; As the business card with the RFID tag holding the authentication information of the first user approaches the RFID reader, the RFID reader reading the authentication information of the first user from the tag and providing the contact information to the contact registration unit; Requesting, by the contact registration unit, personal information mapped to authentication information of the first user by providing authentication information of the first user to a server connected through the Internet; Providing, by the server, the contact registration unit with personal information mapped to authentication information of the first user at the request of the contact registration unit; Providing the personal information provided from the server to the contact manager of the terminal; And storing and managing the personal information provided from the contact registration unit as a new contact.

According to an embodiment, the contact registration unit may be connected to each other by connecting to the server through the Internet in the step of starting the operation before reading the authentication information of the first user from the RFID reader.

Here, the RFID tag holding the authentication information of the first user, the first user providing the personal information to the business card provider; Requesting authentication information for the first user while providing the personal information received by the business card provider to the server; The server may provide the authentication information mapped to the personal information at the request of the business card operator: and the authentication information received from the server by the business card operator may be input to the RFID tag.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a system for providing personal information using a wireless authentication business card includes: a business card having an RFID tag having authentication information of a first user; A server for storing and managing personal information of the first user mapped to authentication information of the first user; An RFID reader for reading authentication information of the first user from the RFID tag of the business card existing in its coverage; And a terminal connected with the RFID reader.

Here, the terminal includes a contact manager and a contact register. The contact manager stores and manages contact information input by the terminal user. The contact registration unit receives the authentication information of the first user from the RFID reader, requests the server to receive the personal information mapped to the authentication information of the first user, and provides the contact information to the contact management unit to store as a new contact. .

The personal information providing system using the wireless authentication business card of the present invention does not need to store personal information in the terminal one by one, and can automatically register the personal information only by wirelessly recognizing the business card passed from another person.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a personal information providing system using a wireless authentication business card according to the present invention, and
2 is a flowchart provided to explain the operation of the personal information providing system using a wireless authentication business card according to the present invention.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, the personal information providing system 100 using the wireless authentication business card of the present invention includes a wireless authentication business card 110, a server 130, an RFID reader (Radio Frequency IDentification Reader) 151, and a terminal 153. The terminal 153 and the server 130 are connected through a network 131.

When divided by the user, the wireless authentication business card 110, the server 130, the RFID reader 151 and the terminal 153 is divided into three areas. The first is the service provider for providing the personal information providing service of the present invention as the server 130, the second is the first user having a wireless authentication business card 110, the third is the RFID reader 151 is connected Become a second user with a terminal 153. The whole process begins by the first user providing the second user with the wireless authentication business card 110-the business card with his personal information printed thereon.

The server 130 stores and manages personal information of the first user, and extracts and provides the requested personal information of the first user to the terminal 153 when the terminal 153 requests it.

The criteria for the server 130 to store, manage, and retrieve the personal information of the first user is 'authentication information' to be described below, and the wireless authentication business card 110 holds the authentication information of the first user.

Therefore, the service provider grants new authentication information to the first user who has newly registered and applied for service. At the same time, the service provider stores and manages personal information of the first user in the server 130 based on the authentication information.

Naturally, the server 130 or the service provider provides a home page accessible to the Internet 131 to the first user in a conventionally known manner for a series of procedures such as user registration, logon, personal information input, authentication information grant, and the like. The first user may access a home page provided by the server 130 using his computer and perform user registration and personal information input.

In some cases, the wireless authentication business card 110 may be manufactured and supplied to a first user by a third-party business card provider rather than a service provider. According to this, when the first user requests the wireless authentication business card 110 while providing his or her personal information to the business card company (or the computer of the business card company), the server 130 sends the personal information received from the first user to the first user. Or requesting authentication information while providing the service provider. Accordingly, the server 130 stores the corresponding personal information at the request of the business card provider and provides the business card provider with authentication information mapped to the personal information.

The business card provider produces the wireless authentication business card 110 based on the authentication information received from the server 130 and provides it to the first user.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the server 130 may provide a home page and provide a connection with a series of terminals 153, a storage server storing various kinds of information including personal information of registered users, and the like. It may be a system.

The wireless authentication business card 110 in the present invention has the same appearance as a normal business card and is therefore made of a material such as paper and the personal information of the first user is printed on at least one surface of both sides thereof.

In addition, the wireless authentication business card 110 is attached to one side of the RFID tag (Tag) 111 is supplied with power from the RFID reader 151 can communicate with the RFID reader 151, the RFID reader 151 to be connected In this case, it provides authentication information in a computer readable form for identification of the user. In general, the authentication information is preferably in the form of a single string, a string, or a serial number (ID No: Identification Number) in which numbers and letters are mixed.

Referring to FIG. 1, a wireless authentication business card 110 having an RFID tag 111 attached to a conventional business card is shown.

The RFID reader 151 may be provided as an external type and may be connected to the terminal 153 through a USB interface or a separate communication cable, or may be installed in the terminal 153. The RFID reader 151 supplies power to the tag 111 of the wireless authentication business card 110 existing in its wireless coverage C by the electromagnetic wave induction method, and receives authentication information from the tag 111. Provide to (153).

The terminal 153 may be any type of device capable of connecting to the server 130 through the network 131 such as a personal computer, a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, a smart phone, and the like. The function of the present invention may be provided as an auxiliary function rather than its main function.

The terminal 153 is connected to the server 130 through the network 131. Here, the network 131 basically includes an internet network, and also includes all heterogeneous networks for accessing the internet network. For example, if the terminal 153 is a mobile phone and the server 130 is connected to the Internet network, the network 131 includes a mobile communication network to which the mobile phone can connect, and the mobile communication network provides access to the Internet network. do.

The terminal 153 is connected with the RFID reader 151 to read authentication information of the wireless authentication business card 110, and receives and stores personal information of the wireless authentication business card 110 provider from the server 130 based on the authentication information. And manage.

To this end, the terminal 153 includes a contact manager 155 and a contact register 157. Since the terminal 153 basically has a structure for performing various functions by application programs installed on the basis of an operating system (OS) program, the contact management unit 155 and the contact registration unit 157 also have a designated series. It may be an application program installed in the terminal 153 that is configured as a program language capable of processing the commands of the user. In this case, the contact manager 155 and the contact register 157 may not operate at all times and may start an operation at the request of the second user (such as driving an application).

The contact manager 155 stores and manages information about a new contact input by a second user through an input device such as a keyboard in the memory 159, and provides a simple search function for the stored information. Here, the contact information may be related to the contact's name, phone number, email address, home address, home phone number, fax number, company phone number, company fax number, company address, homepage address, face photo of the contact, and other contact information. All of the information may be applicable.

In addition, the contact manager 155 stores and manages contact information provided by the contact register 157 in addition to the contact information provided through the input device.

The contact registration unit 157 reads the authentication information of the wireless authentication business card 110 through the RFID reader 151 while being connected to the server 130, and transmits the wireless authentication business card to the server 130 based on the read authentication information. 110) Requests for personal information (that is, contact information) of the provider (here, the first user) is received and provided to the contact manager 155 for registration.

Hereinafter, a personal information providing method using the wireless authentication business card of the present invention centering on the operation of the contact registration unit 157 will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

In the method of providing personal information described below, the first user and the second user have advanced the user registration related to the service provision to the server 130 or the service provider, and the first user uses the wireless authentication business card 110. As well as being provided, it is assumed that the first user has already progressed to the step of providing the wireless authentication business card 110 to the second user.

First of all, the contact registration unit 157 and the RFID reader 151 are in a form of always-operating configuration, or they are always in operation or have begun to operate at the request of a second user (such as driving an application program). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the RFID reader 151 is not separately controlled for the operation. However, the contact registration unit 157 may control the operation power of the RFID reader 151 to be supplied from the terminal 153 while starting the operation. There is (S201).

When the second user who has received the wireless authentication business card 110 approaches the wireless authentication business card 110 into the coverage C of the RFID reader 151, the RFID reader 151 is located within its coverage C. Power is supplied to the wireless authentication business card 110 according to the electromagnetic induction method, and the authentication information is received from the tag 111 of the wireless authentication business card 110 (S203).

The RFID reader 151 provides the contact information registration unit 157 with the authentication information provided from the tag 111 (S205).

When the contact registration unit 157 receives the authentication information from the RFID reader 151, accesses the server 130 through the network 131, provides the authentication information to the server 130, and provides the personal information mapped to the authentication information. request. In order to access the server 130, the contact registration unit 157 connects to the server 130 on the Internet by a method of automatically accessing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is set by application start (S207).

The server 130 searches for and extracts personal information mapped to authentication information provided from the contact registration unit 157 from the storage medium (S209), and provides the extracted personal information to the contact registration unit 157. The extracted personal information is mapped to the authentication information provided to the server 130 by the contact registration unit 157 and will be the personal information of the first user (S211).

When the contact registration unit 157 receives the personal information from the server 130, the contact registration unit 157 requests the contact management unit 155 to store and manage the new contact information in the memory 159 (S213).

Accordingly, the contact manager 155 stores and manages the personal information provided from the contact register 157 as a new contact and provides the user with a search. In this process, the contact manager 155 may display and confirm the personal information provided from the contact register 157 to the second user (S215).

In the above method, the personal information providing method using the wireless authentication business card of the present invention is performed.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, the contact registration unit 157 which has started the operation in step S201 may first access the server 130 and maintain a connection with the server 130, and then proceed to step S203.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Claims (4)

In accordance with the control of the second user, starting a contact registration unit of a terminal to which a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader is connected;
As the business card with the RFID tag holding the authentication information of the first user approaches the RFID reader, the RFID reader reading the authentication information of the first user from the tag and providing the contact information to the contact registration unit;
Requesting, by the contact registration unit, personal information mapped to authentication information of the first user by providing authentication information of the first user to a server connected through the Internet;
Providing, by the server, the contact registration unit with personal information mapped to authentication information of the first user at the request of the contact registration unit;
Providing the personal information provided from the server to the contact manager of the terminal; And
And storing and managing the personal information received from the contact registration unit as a new contact.
The method of claim 1,
The contact registration unit uses a wireless authentication business card, characterized in that connected to the server via the Internet in the step of starting the operation, before reading the authentication information of the first user from the RFID reader. How to provide personal information.
The method of claim 1,
RFID tag having the authentication information of the first user,
Providing the personal information to a business card operator by the first user;
Requesting authentication information for the first user while providing the personal information received by the business card provider to the server;
Providing, by the server, the authentication information mapped to the personal information at the request of the business card operator: And
Personal information providing method using a wireless authentication business card, characterized in that the business card operator is inputting the authentication information received from the server to the RFID tag.
A business card to which an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tag having authentication information of the first user is attached;
A server for storing and managing personal information of the first user mapped to authentication information of the first user;
An RFID reader for reading authentication information of the first user from the RFID tag of the business card existing in its coverage; And
A terminal of a second user connected with the RFID reader,
The terminal comprises:
A contact manager to store and manage contact information input by the second user through an input device; And
The contact registration unit receives the authentication information of the first user from the RFID reader, requests the server to receive the personal information mapped to the authentication information of the first user, and provides the contact information to the contact manager to store it as a new contact. Personal information providing system using a wireless authentication business card comprising a.

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