WO2002071372A1 - Appareil de codage permettant d'enregistrer manuellement des codes aplhanumeriques personnels sensibles - Google Patents

Appareil de codage permettant d'enregistrer manuellement des codes aplhanumeriques personnels sensibles Download PDF

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WO2002071372A1
WO2002071372A1 PCT/IT2001/000110 IT0100110W WO02071372A1 WO 2002071372 A1 WO2002071372 A1 WO 2002071372A1 IT 0100110 W IT0100110 W IT 0100110W WO 02071372 A1 WO02071372 A1 WO 02071372A1
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Enzo Francesco Ranieri
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Complex S.R.L.
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means
    • G07F7/10—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means together with a coded signal, e.g. in the form of personal identification information, like personal identification number [PIN] or biometric data

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  • the present invention relates to a pocketable, manually operated, combinative card on which several sensible personal codes may be manually recorded and read solely by knowing a certain reading key code.
  • the document FR-A-2590698 discloses a recording support for access code in the form of a first element implementing a mask and a second element carrying an array of characters.
  • the two portions or elements are normally kept apart.
  • the second element or sheet containing the array of characters may be kept in a certain control station while the mask element may be carried by the person entrusted to use it.
  • EP-A-0275578 discloses a decoding device in the form of a slide rule card having a plurality of sliders. It allows the displaying of an arbitrary string of characters in two equivalent representations, e.g., a bar code may be decoded in a readable string of characters.
  • CH-A-372180 discloses a slide rule card for encoding/decoding numbers in a hole disposition code and viceversa.
  • EP-A-0557359-B1 discloses a combinative slide rule card having two or more slidable inserts inside a card whose front piece has openings or windows for aligning the two sliding inserts in a certain position identified by a self-attributed access code, such that recorded personal codes, each written on a column of boxes spanning across the two inserts may be read.
  • the encoding instrument of the invention may be realized by printing onto a single face or on both faces of a card.
  • the encoding instrument of the invention may be printed on a sheet or on a single face of a commonly pocketable card, such as a credit card, a bancomat card, a smart-card, an identification badge, a calendar card and the like that are normally carried along in a wallet.
  • a commonly pocketable card such as a credit card, a bancomat card, a smart-card, an identification badge, a calendar card and the like that are normally carried along in a wallet.
  • the surface of the card is necessarily made writable onto certain pre-defined areas, according to the present invention, such to allow a manual writing "in clear" of alphanumeric personal codes thereon. These codes can be decoded or read only by knowing a read key that the user attributes to himself when recording his personal codes.
  • the encoding instrument of the invention has a printed layout that includes at least a first field subdivided in a certain number of boxes disposed side by side along a direction of extension of the field.
  • Each box contains an alphanumeric character, and at least two rectangular matrices of writable boxes, a dimension of which is identical and has the same number of boxes of that of the first field.
  • Each character of a personal alphanumeric code may be written in a box of the two or more distinct rectangular matrices of boxes, splitting the string of characters of the alphanumeric code in a first segment of characters written in boxes aligned along a direction orthogonal to the direction of extension of the matrices and of the first field and in one or more segments of orthogonally aligned cells of the other matrices generally misaligned with each other.
  • the distinct portions of the code may be retraced only knowing a read key that is self- attributed when the codes are written in the misaligned segments of orthogonally aligned boxes of the distinct matrices. Such a key identifies the position, along said dimension of extension of the matrices and of the first field, of the distinct segments of the string of characters of the code written in the transversally aligned cells of the respective matrices.
  • the encoding instrument may be provided with auxiliary writable fields for recording "in clear” the kind of the different personal alphanumeric codes written in segments of different matrix of boxes, in the sequential order in which they are recorded in respect to a first position determined by the secret read key self- attributed by the user when recording (writing) his data over misaligned segments of boxes.
  • the encoding instrument of the invention comprises a second field, substantially identical to the first field, that is subdivided in the same number of boxes aligned along the same direction of extension.
  • the first field may be printed at the top of the distinct matrices of writable boxes and the second field may be printed at the bottom of the matrices of writable boxes.
  • a first character of the self-attributed read key may be chosen among those printed in the boxes of the first field while a second character of the read key may be chosen among those printed in the boxes of the second field.
  • characters in the first field and in the second field are univocally introduced in the respective boxes and may be of any kind (letters, numbers, symbols etc.), printed or permanently written in the boxes of the fields with or without any logic order.
  • the two fields may both contain the letters of the alphabet sequentially written one near the other. This is only a possible choice but it does not have any influence on the functionality of the encoding instrument of the invention.
  • the number of such fields on which the characters of the self-attributed code are written as well as the number of rectangular matrices of writable boxes may be greater than two.
  • the character of the read key that is read on the first field identifies the position of the first segment of the first sensible personal code written on the first matrix
  • the second character of the read key that is read on the second field identifies the position of the second segment of the first sensible personal code
  • a third character read on a third field identifies the position of the third segment of the personal code on a third matrix of writable boxes, and so forth.
  • Figure 1 shows an embodiment of the encoding instrument of the invention.
  • Figure 2 illustrated a way of using the instrument of Fig. 1.
  • the first 1 is a rectangular matrix of boxes 3x20
  • the second 2 is a rectangular matrix of boxes 4x20.
  • the two matrices having the same extension, i.e. 20 boxes, are defined and confined in a space between a first field 3 and a second field 4.
  • These fields 3 and 4 are subdivided in 20 different boxes, each containing an alphanumeric character different from the other of the same field that, in the depicted example, is a letter of the alphabet from A to N.
  • the characters written permanently in the two fields 3 and 4 may be of different kind and in any order, even in a totally random manner.
  • the only condition that is surely preferable even if not strictly necessary is that a certain character appears only once in the respective field.
  • the instrument of the invention comprises also a number of auxiliary fields, that in the depicted example are defined by Roman numbers, in which it is possible to write the kind of the different sensible personal alphanumeric codes recorded in an undecipherable manner by persons other than the user.
  • Such codes may be entered in the same sequential order in the matrices of boxes 1 and 2 and may be singularly retraced, knowing the coordinates i.e. the respective positions of the two distinct segments of the personal code to be read.
  • Fig. 2 The way of using the encoding instrument of the invention for manually recording personal codes is illustrated in Fig. 2 by considering the registration of three distinct personal codes relative to different services, specified in the auxiliary fields I, II and III.
  • the user of the encoding instrument of the invention shall attribute to himself a secret read key by choosing and memorizing a character from the first field 3 and a character from the second field 4, for example self- attributing to himself the secret read key DL.
  • a first segment of three characters of the first one of the three personal codes to be recorded may be written, on three boxes of the first matrix 1 , starting from the column corresponding to the first character of the secret read key D, and the first segments of three characters of the other personal codes may be written on adjacent three boxes of the first matrix in the same order in which they are recalled in the auxiliary fields I, II, III, in a desired shift direction.
  • the remaining segments of the three personal codes may be written using the necessary boxes in the column of boxes of the second matrix 2, the first column of which is aligned with the second character of the secret read key, writing then in the same sequence.
  • the shift direction may be the same or opposite to that used to sequentially write the first segments of the different codes on the first matrix 1.
  • all the remaining boxes of the two matrices may be filled with characters of the same kind of the characters of the personal codes, in a totally random manner.
  • the encoding instrument so filled will have the undecipherable aspect of Fig. 2.
  • the user can read a code of interest because, knowing the secret read key (DL) and the shift direction in which the segments belonging to different personal codes were sequentially written, he knows for each code the position of the two segments of characters that constitute it.
  • DL secret read key
  • the self-attributed read key is DL and if the segments belonging to different personal codes have been written sequentially one next to the other in a shift direction from left to right, the bancomat code, commonly constituted by five digits will be read as 56142; the PIN code of the cellular phone, commonly constituted by four digits, will be read as 6121 and the access code to the services of remote banking constituted by six digits will be read as 418794.
  • the user may decide to write the segments of its personal codes sequentially in opposite directions in the two matrices, for example sequentially from left to right, on the matrix 1, and sequentially from right to left (in the opposite direction) on matrix 2, and may even decide to write the segments of the different personal codes not one immediately adjacent to the other in the pre- ordered sequence, but at a regular distance of one or more columns from one to the next.
  • Another encoding that may be implemented by the user consists in self-attributing a secret read key not constituted only by two characters, one for each matrix, but by as many pairs of characters as the personal codes to be recorded. Numerous alternative ways of using the encoding instrument of the invention may be implemented.
  • the rectangular matrices of writable boxes are at least two but they may be even more, for example three: the first 2x20, the second 3x20, the third 3x20, such to subdivide each personal code in two or even more segments of characters that may be mutually recombined upon reading the codes.
  • a secret read key to be self-attributed may be constituted by a tern of characters, each character identifying the position of the relative segment of a first recorded code on a respective matrix of writable cells.
  • a great advantage of the encoding instrument of the invention over the known instruments is to be realizable on any printable and writable flat support.
  • the encoding instrument of the invention may be printed for example on a cover, back cover or on any page of an agenda, as well as on a face of a personal card of common use having another specific functionality, such as for example on one face of a bancomat card, of a credit card, of a smart card, of a personal identification badge, of a calendar card.
  • the encoding instrument of the invention is outstandingly suitable as a valuable carrier of publicity for promoting organizations, companies, trademarks, because a face of a common plastic card may be destined to the realization of the encoding instrument of the invention while the opposite face may be exploited for publicity.
  • the encoding instrument of the invention is realized in the form of a plastic card, that may normally incorporate magnetic bands for recording personal data, and/or of a smart card
  • the writable boxes of the matrix as well as the auxiliary writable fields, if present, must have a superficial texture or finishing suitable to be written in an indelible manner using, for example, a common ball point pen.

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L'invention concerne un appareil de codage/décodage permettant d'enregistrer manuellement et en clair des codes alphanumériques personnels sensibles qui uniquement déchiffrables ou lisibles au moyen d'une clé de lecture auto-attribuée par l'utilisateur. Cet appareil est constitué d'au moins un premier champ (3) divisé en un certain nombre de boîtes alignées dans une première direction, chaque boîte contenant un caractère alphanumérique, et d'au moins deux matrices rectangulaires (1, 2) de boîtes inscriptibles juxtaposées par rapport au premier champ et dont une première dimension, en termes de nombre de boîtes, est la même que celle du premier champ. Pour inscrire les codes alphanumériques personnels caractère par caractère dans autant de boîtes des différentes matrices, il faut diviser les caractères du code alphanumérique en un premier segment de caractères inscrits dans des boîtes alignées sur la direction orthogonale à la première direction d'une première matrice et en un ou plusieurs segments de caractères inscrits dans des boîtes également alignées sur la direction orthogonale des autres matrices.
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GB2419733A (en) * 2004-11-01 2006-05-03 Roy Talbot Device and method of making a device for encoding and remembering pin-codes
WO2009038620A1 (fr) * 2007-09-22 2009-03-26 Passwarden Llc Système et procédé de création et d'enregistrement de mot de passe

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