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Method and system for identifying and communicating with a plurality of contactless IC cards
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp
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Filing: 1995-10-06
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Granted: 1997-12-16
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Expires: 2015-10-06
Abstract
Abstract Even when a plurality of cards have entered an communication area, the cards within the communication area may be accessible, and, if a data collision occurs, the order of accessing to the cards is expeditiously determined to perform an efficient communication. Each card determines a timing for returning a response block containing an ID code based on conditions directed by a read/write device and the ID code of its own. The read/write device is caused to receive the response block returned by the contactless IC card and to detect a data collision. Based on this result, the conditions are changed so that a respective response block containing an ID code is returned again, thereby concurrently processing the plurality of contactless IC cards.
Inventors
- 👤 Shigeru Furuta
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-05 18:41
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06K; G06K17/00; G06K7/00; G06K7/10; G06K7/10009; G06K7/10019; G06K7/10029; G06K7/10059; G06K7/0008; G07; G07B; G07B15/00; G07B15/02; G07C; G07C9/00; G07C9/20; G07C9/28
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
174 words
A contactless IC card communication system including: contactless IC cards; and a read/write device communicating with the IC cards by means of electromagnetic waves, the read/write device comprising: ID code acquisition means for requesting a response block from each of the contactless IC cards and for determining a time at which each of the contactless IC cards returns a response block containing an ID code, based on timing conditions directed to the contactless IC cards from the read/write device and an ID code of each of the contactless IC cards; data communication means for identifying contactless IC cards for communication based on the ID codes and causing respective commands to be executed in the contactless IC cards identified; means for receiving a response block containing an ID code from each of the contactless IC cards and detecting a data collision between response blocks; means for changing the timing conditions in response to a data collision; and means for re-requesting a response block from each of the contactless IC cards using the changed timing conditions.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
174 words
A contactless IC card communication system including: contactless IC cards; and a read/write device communicating with the IC cards by means of electromagnetic waves, the read/write device comprising: ID code acquisition means for requesting a response block from each of the contactless IC cards and for determining a time at which each of the contactless IC cards returns a response block containing an ID code, based on timing conditions directed to the contactless IC cards from the read/write device and an ID code of each of the contactless IC cards; data communication means for identifying contactless IC cards for communication based on the ID codes and causing respective commands to be executed in the contactless IC cards identified; means for receiving a response block containing an ID code from each of the contactless IC cards and detecting a data collision between response blocks; means for changing the timing conditions in response to a data collision; and means for re-requesting a response block from each of the contactless IC cards using the changed timing conditions.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
43 words
The contactless IC card communication system according to claim 1, wherein the ID code acquisition means concurrently requests response blocks from the contactless IC cards and sends data commands to contactless IC cards using a single command block transmitted by the read/write device.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
58 words
The contactless IC card communication system according to claim 1, comprising counting means for counting contactless IC cards entering a communication area within a time period, and whereby the ID code acquisition means establishes a number of different timings for response blocks returned by the contactless ID cards based on based on a count of the counting means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
169 words
A communication method for a contactless IC card system, the system including contactless IC cards and a read/write device, for communicating by means of electromagnetic waves, the communication method comprising: acquiring an ID code from each of the contactless IC cards by requesting a response block from each of the contactless IC cards utilizing a read/write device and determining a time for each of the contactless IC cards to send a response block based on timing conditions directed to the contactless IC cards from the read/write device and the ID code of each of the contactless IC cards; receiving a response block from each of the contactless IC cards and detecting whether a data collision of response blocks has occurred; changing the timing conditions in response to a data collision; re-requesting a response block from each of the contactless IC cards using the changed timing conditions; and communicating data to identified contactless IC cards based on the ID codes thereby causing the identified contactless IC cards to execute commands.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
169 words
A communication method for a contactless IC card system, the system including contactless IC cards and a read/write device, for communicating by means of electromagnetic waves, the communication method comprising: acquiring an ID code from each of the contactless IC cards by requesting a response block from each of the contactless IC cards utilizing a read/write device and determining a time for each of the contactless IC cards to send a response block based on timing conditions directed to the contactless IC cards from the read/write device and the ID code of each of the contactless IC cards; receiving a response block from each of the contactless IC cards and detecting whether a data collision of response blocks has occurred; changing the timing conditions in response to a data collision; re-requesting a response block from each of the contactless IC cards using the changed timing conditions; and communicating data to identified contactless IC cards based on the ID codes thereby causing the identified contactless IC cards to execute commands.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
41 words
The communication method for a contactless IC card system according to claim 4, including concurrently acquiring ID codes from the contactless IC cards and communicating data to the identified IC cards with a single command block transmitted by the read/write device.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
48 words
The communication method for a contactless IC card system according to claim 4, comprising counting contactless IC cards entering a communication area within a time period to produce a count result, and establishing a number of different timings for return of response blocks based on the count result.
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