Patent ID: 7178026
Filing Date: 2007-02-13
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An Identification (ID) management system, comprising: an ID management terminal that receives an order for issue of an ID and manages the issued ID in accordance with the order for issue; a production factory terminal used in an ID tag production factory that produces an ID tag storing the issued ID; and an ID utilization terminal that reads the produced ID tag, wherein the ID tag includes an electronic circuit chip having a ROM area storing the extension ID as data readable from an outside, wherein the ID management terminal comprises: an ID generating unit that issues the ID and determines the attribute information in accordance with the information accepted at the order of issuing the ID, and generates the extension ID includes the issued ID and the attribute information, an ID registration processing unit that registers the generated extension ID on a database, and an ID tag production request processing unit that requests, to the production factory terminal, a production of the ID tag including the electronic circuit chip storing the generated extension ID, and wherein the ID registration request processing unit of the ID management terminal registers, on the database, a state as completion of producing the ID tag storing the generated extension ID or a missing number of the generated extension ID, in accordance with inspection result information of the produced ID tag so as to store the generated extension ID, and includes a control unit that estimates the extension ID failed the reading from other information, when failing a read of the extension ID from the produced ID tag.