Patent ID: 7404517

Claim:
A system including an access control apparatus for controlling access of a person to an area, said access control apparatus having a non-contact-type access authorization reading device for reading an access authorization stored in a portable access authorization data carrier which is received by an object carried by the user near a ground area, the reading device having an antenna disposed in the ground area, and being connected to an evaluation unit which releases the access for a person upon reading of a valid access authorization, the system further including a portable copy-over data carrier on which a coding authorization and an access authorization are stored upon acquisition, a copy-over reading device for reading the coding authorization from the portable copy-over data carrier, and a coding device for coding the access authorization read from the copy-over data carrier onto the portable access authorization data carrier in response to the reading device reading the coding authorization from said portable copy-over data carrier, wherein the coding authorization on the portable copy-over data carrier is deleted after coding so that the copy-over data carrier is not capable of providing the access authorization to additional access authorization data carriers.