Patent ID: 7922081

Claim:
An identification information managing system comprising a reissue terminal unit for accepting reissue of a ticket or card embedded with an IC chip, a local server for managing utilization of said ticket or card, and a center server for managing a ticket/card ID of the ticket or card corresponding to an IC chip ID of said IC chip, wherein said reissue terminal unit reads a new IC chip ID of a new ticket or card after reissue from said new ticket or card and besides receives an input of an old ticket/card ID of an old ticket or card before the reissue so as to transmit to said center server said new IC chip ID and said old ticket/card ID together with a reissue request message; said center server retrieves whether said old ticket/card ID exists and when determining that said old ticket/card ID exists, transmits to said reissue terminal unit a reissue permission message and transmits to said local server at least one of an old IC chip ID corresponding to said old ticket/card ID and said old ticket/card ID, said new ticket/card ID and said new IC chip ID, together with reissue notification message; and said local server makes said new ticket/card ID and said new IC chip ID valid in place of said old ticket/card ID and said old IC chip ID.