Patent ID: 7849993
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: B42D,G07D,G07F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for processing documents of value that have at least one electrical circuit, the apparatus comprising: a checking device for at least one of (A) the transfer of at least one of energy and data to the electrical circuit of one of said documents of value and (B) the reception of at least one of energy and data from the electrical circuit of the documents of value, with at least part of at least one of the transferred energy and data being used for processing, wherein the checking device is configured to initially determine individual data of one or more documents, in order to then be able to selectively address individual electrical circuits or a subset of all of the electrical circuits, to transfer an authentication signal to the electrical circuit to obtain authorization from said electrical circuit for carrying out certain processing operations, and, upon obtaining authorization from said electrical circuit, carrying out said processing operations, said processing operations including either reading from or writing to a memory of said electrical circuit.