Patent ID: 8912880

Claim:
A method for verifying personal electronic authorization data stored in mobile devices, said method comprising: receiving via close range contactless communication at an authorization-checking device photographic identification data from one or more mobile devices, where said one or more mobile devices store authorization data and said photographic identification data associated with one or more users of said one or more mobile devices on a removable identification chipcard in said one or more mobile devices; displaying said photographic identification data visually on said authorization-checking device, wherein said visually reproduced photographic identification data provides a user of said authorization-checking device with a comparison of the appearance of said one or more users of said one or more mobile devices for verifying said stored authorization data is associated with said one or more users of said one or more mobile devices; and controlling the displaying of the photographic identification data based on input by a user of the authorization-checking device, wherein the controlling comprises modifying at least a portion of a displayed image corresponding to the photographic identification data.