Patent ID: 8963680
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06K,G07C

Abstract:
1. A contactless communication system operative to communicate with at least one of plural types of noncontact information carriers, the plural types of noncontact information carriers having different access procedures from type to type, the contactless communication system comprising: a single modulator; an information processing unit operative to run an application program to send an access request indicating one of the plural types of noncontact information carriers; a first storage unit configured to store a group of access control programs such that each of the access control programs is associated with a corresponding one type of the different access procedures from type to type; a second storage unit configured to store access reference information including a plurality of sets of data items, each of the sets of data items being required to execute a corresponding one of the group of access control programs and associated with a corresponding one of the different access procedures from type to type; and a program execution unit configured to reference, in response to the access request sent from the information processing unit, the access reference information to select at least one set of data items in the plurality of sets of data items based on a result of the reference, and to select at least one program in the group of access control programs based on the result of the, the selected at least one set of data items and selected at least one program corresponding to at least one of the different access procedures, the at least one of the different access procedures corresponding to the one of the plural types of noncontact information carriers indicated by the access request, the program execution unit being configured to execute the selected at least one program in the group of access control programs based on the selected at least one set of data items, the program execution unit being configured to communicate, through the single modulator, with the one of the plural types of noncontact information carriers in accordance with the executed at least one program based on the selected at least one set of data items.