Patent ID: 9135478
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An identification system comprising: a smartcard unit comprising at least a smartcard, a holder receiving the smartcard, and an attachment on the holder operative to secure the smartcard unit to a user's person to enable enabling the smartcard unit to be worn by the user, wherein the smartcard is accessible for reading by an external reader; and a reader unit operative to interface communicatively with the smartcard in the smartcard unit and with a computer to enable the computer to communicate with the smartcard; wherein at least one of the smartcard unit and the reader unit has structure to align the reader unit relative to the smartcard in an alignment for communicative interfacing while the smartcard unit is being worn by the user; and wherein at least one of the smartcard unit and the reader unit has a retainer operative to secure the reader unit relative to the smartcard unit in said alignment so that the smartcard unit is reversibly separable from the reader unit without damage so as to leave the smartcard unit attached to the user and the reader unit attached to the computer, in response to a separation force less than the minimum force necessary to separate the smartcard from the holder, wherein the separation force has a direction other than along a longitudinal axis of the smartcard, and wherein, the retainer comprises a magnetically attractive member on said one of the smartcard unit and the reader unit that in said alignment attracts a magnetically attractable member on the other of the smartcard unit and the reader unit.