Patent ID: 6695207
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: B60R,G06Q,G07C,G07F

Abstract:
Apparatus for allowing only an authorized person to activate an instrumentality capable of performing action desired by a person who is the user of said apparatus, said apparatus comprising:a Personalized Authenticated Controller means (hereafter â€œPACâ€ ), communicating with said instrumentality, for authenticating identity of said user as said authorized person and for allowing activation of said instrumentality only by said authorized person for performance of said action, said PAC comprising: a user information input means for allowing input of information into said PAC; a data storage means, for storing data received by said PAC; a PAC microprocessor means, communicating internally with all PAC components, for transferring and formatting data, said PAC microprocessor means further comprising an authorized person identification means, communicating with said data storage means, for continually determining whether said user is said authorized person, through analysis of the most recently received data identifying said user and through comparison of same with reference data identifying said authorized person; and for providing for output from said PAC, of an authorized person identity authentication signal, if and only if said user is said authorized person; a communication means, for allowing communication between said PAC and said instrumentality; a wearing means, for allowing said user to wear said PAC in contact with said user's body; wherein said PAC further comprises a removal sensor means, communicating with said wearing means and said data storage means, for sensing removal of said PAC from said body of said authorized person and for communicating a removal signal indicative of said removal into said data storage means; and wherein said authorized person identification means further comprises means for determination of whether any said removal signal has been received into said data storage means after receipt of the most recent data identifying said user as said authorized person; and a portion of said instrumentality, comprising: an authorized person recognition means, communicating with said PAC, for allowing said instrumentality to carry out said action sought by said user only upon receipt by said authorized person recognition means, of said authorized person identity authentication signal.