EP0564064A2 - Moyens et procédé pour un système de signalisation de temps et de présence ou d'accès contrôlé - Google Patents

Moyens et procédé pour un système de signalisation de temps et de présence ou d'accès contrôlé Download PDF

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EP0564064A2
EP0564064A2 EP93300044A EP93300044A EP0564064A2 EP 0564064 A2 EP0564064 A2 EP 0564064A2 EP 93300044 A EP93300044 A EP 93300044A EP 93300044 A EP93300044 A EP 93300044A EP 0564064 A2 EP0564064 A2 EP 0564064A2
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C1/00—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people
    • G07C1/10—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity
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    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/20—Individual registration on entry or exit involving the use of a pass
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  • the present invention relates to time and attendance or controlled access reporting generally and, more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to a novel reporting system with a greatly increased capacity which is particularly useful in time and attendance reporting.
  • Time and attendance systems are widely used in a number of workplace situations and, in the past, almost universally employed one or more time clocks into which employees inserted their time cards when arriving at and leaving work and when taking lunch and coffee breaks, etc.
  • the clocks imprinted the time cards with the current time, the cards were periodically collected, and the information thereon was manually taken off and used for purposes of paying the employees and for accumulating statistical data.
  • time clocks have been connected to a mainframe, or host, computer, the time cards have been eliminated, and the employees insert their identification cards having bar code or magnetic identifying stripes thereon into or through a slot in a time clock terminal with the time of insertion.
  • the information is read by the time clock terminal and transmitted to the host computer.
  • the host computer checks to see that each employee is authorized to be clocking in or out at that time, that the identification card is valid, stores the time information, and may transmit a message to the employee on a display at the time clock terminal that it is the wrong time, or the wrong place, or etc. This consumes a large amount of time of the host computer if any significant numbers of employees are involved, since each employee will likely have six to ten transactions per day.
  • a further disadvantage of conventional time clock terminals is that they usually require the insertion therein of a card having thereon a magnetic stripe or bar code. Both such types of identifying indicia are subject to damage, often during the reading process, which damage can interfere with the proper reading of the indicia.
  • a system for time and attendance or other controlled access comprising: a portable electronic memory device; and a time clock terminal to which said portable electronic memory device may be temporarily operatively attached by a user thereof, said portable electronic memory device having stored therein use restrictions as to the use of said portable electronic memory device; and said time clock terminal including means to determine whether or not said use restrictions are satisfied.
  • Said time clock terminal may record in said portable memory device the times of use.
  • the holder of the portable memory device may temporarily attach said portable memory device to said time clock terminal and use said time clock terminal to display information stored in said portable memory device.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the memory of a conventional time clock terminal.
  • Figure 2 is a side elevational view of a time clock terminal according to the present invention.
  • Figure 3 is a perspective view of an employee identification card according to the present invention.
  • Figure 4 is a perspective view of an alternative embodiment of employee identification means.
  • Figure 5 is a schematic/block diagram of the system of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates schematically the memory, generally indicated by the reference numeral 10, of a conventional time clock terminal, or "smart clock" (not shown).
  • Memory 10 includes a first section 12 which contains the basic operating system for a microprocessor in the time clock terminal.
  • a second section 14 contains the applications programs which determine how stored data and data read from an employee's identification card are processed. Sections 12 and 14 are required for the operation of the time clock terminal.
  • a third section 16 includes data as to scheduling restrictions imposed on each employee. This section will be periodically updated as such restrictions change.
  • a fourth section 18 contains the time data taken as employees clock in and out. This section is periodically read by a host computer and erased. While there is a practical limit to the amount of data that can be stored in any memory, the expansion of the data required to be stored in section 16, as noted above, reduces the number of employees that can be accommodated by a single time clock terminal and, thus, such terminals are severely limited in the number of employees that any one such terminal can service.
  • Time clock terminal 30 includes conventional elements such as a housing 32 containing a slot reader 34 through which an employee identification card (not shown) may be passed for the reading thereof. Housing 32 further contains a conventional display 36 on which employees can receive messages, a keypad 38 for manually inputting information, and a real time clock 40 (normally disposed within the housing). Time clock terminal 30 is connected to a host computer 42 which includes a memory 43.
  • the nonconventional element of time clock terminal 30 is a "touch sensor" 44 element, the function of which touch sensor will be described in detail below.
  • FIG 3 illustrates an employee identification card, generally indicated by the reference numeral 50, which may include a conventional magnetic stripe 52 thereon in which is encoded identification information and the identification card may include a photograph 54 of the employee.
  • the nonconventional element of identification card 50 is a raised "touch memory" 56 disposed thereon, the function of which touch memory will be described in detail below.
  • Figure 4 illustrates an alternative embodiment of employee identification means, generally indicated by the reference numeral 60, which includes a touch memory button 56' attached by means of a chain 62 to a key ring 64.
  • Time clock terminal 30 ( Figure 5) includes a microprocessor 70 to which is connected a source of power 72.
  • Memory 10' in time clock terminal 30 includes recorded therein basic operating systems in section 12 and applications programs in section 14 as described above with reference to Figure 1.
  • Section 18 for data capture is also included in memory 10' as described above with reference to Figure 1. It should be noted that only a small section 16' is provided for scheduling restrictions and this only for changes in such restrictions, in contrast to memory 10 ( Figure 1) in conventional time clock terminals which must allow substantial memory capacity for scheduling restrictions.
  • Touch sensor 44 ( Figure 5) includes a grounded housing portion 46 and a data communication portion 48.
  • Microprocessor 70 is connected to contact surface 48 through input/output circuitry 72 and to host computer 40 through input/output circuitry 74.
  • Touch memory 56 ( Figure 5) includes a microchip 80 to which is connected a source of power 82 which may be a long life lithium battery.
  • Microchip 80 is connected to a memory 10'' containing employee identification in a section 84, use restrictions in a section 86, and data capture in a section 18''.
  • Microchip 80 is connected through input/output circuitry 90 to a contact surface 92.
  • contact surfaces 48 and 92 are electrically engaged to permit communication between microprocessor 70 in time clock terminal 30 and microchip 80 in touch memory 56.
  • Touch sensor 44 and touch memory 56 may be similar to those furnished by Dallas Semiconductor, of Dallas, Texas, and are conventionally used, for example, in a variety of hospital systems, for example.
  • contact surfaces 48 and 92, respectively of touch sensor 44 and touch memory 56 are metal contact surfaces which, when contacted with each other, provide "one-wire" bidirectional communication therebetween.
  • Touch memory 56 typically has a 4K capacity, which capacity is more than adequate for the above purposes.
  • Microprocessor 70 Figure 5 reads the employee identification information and the restrictions in memory 10'' of touch memory 56 and, if the restrictions are satisfied for that employee, the microprocessor will cause microchip 80 to enter the time in memory 10''.
  • Each employee will have a similar identification card with restrictions recorded therein applicable to that employee and will have clocking times recorded in memory 10'' in each employee's identification card.
  • the employees identification cards will contain the restriction information that formerly consumed substantial space in the memories of conventional time clock terminals.
  • the only restriction information recorded in memory 10' is a limited amount of changed restriction information that is temporarily stored until transferred to memory 10''.
  • the storage of scheduling restrictions and data capture is distributed among the various identification cards held by the employees.
  • time clock terminal 30 may handle a very large number of employees as easily as very few, limited only by how fast the employees can touch their touch memories 56 to touch sensor 44. Rate of communication between microchip 80 and computer 70 ( Figure 5) is extremely rapid. Data captured in memory 10' is periodically transferred to host computer 42.
  • Another advantage of the present invention is that redundant data is recorded and, if the data transferred to the host computer is lost, the data can be read from the employees' identification cards and transferred to the host computer the next time the employees clock in or out.
  • time clock terminal 30 can complete the employee transaction locally.
  • the only time that time clock terminal 30 has to refer to host computer 42 is when the employee is attempting to clock in or out outside of his validation period. If the validation period has expired, host computer 42 is alerted and display 36 ( Figure 2) displays "PROCESSING" and the employee is instructed to again touch touch sensor 44 and new data is transferred into memory 10'' ( Figure 5) from memory 43 of host computer 42.
  • time clock terminal 30 can display a message for the employee to see the employee's supervisor, for example. If the supervisor approves the recording of the time, the supervisor's identification is entered by touching the supervisor's touch memory 56 to touch sensor 44 and pressing appropriate commands on keypad 38. The employee then clocks in and the supervisor's approval is recorded as part of the transaction in memories 10' and 10''.
  • Time clock terminal 30 includes a "journal display mode.”
  • An employee touches touch sensor 44 ( Figure 2) with touch memory 56 ( Figure 3) and presses DISPLAY JOURNAL on keypad 38. With appropriate commands, the employee can display total hours worked in a selected period, overtime worked, times in and out, vacation or sick time remaining, work schedule, use restrictions etc. This can be done on any time clock terminal. There is no longer a need to have host computer 42 connected on line to retrieve this information.
  • Another advantage of the invention is that bar codes and magnetic stripes that can become damaged can be eliminated. This means that slot 34 on time clock terminal 30 can also be eliminated; although is may be desirable to retain that feature as an alternative means of inputting data.
  • a further advantage of the present invention is that touch memory 56 can be re-used by another employee if the original holder of the memory is no longer employed. It is only necessary that the new employee's information be recorded in memory 10''. If touch memory 56 is lost, a replacement is easily provided with information from memory 43 of host computer 42.
  • time clock terminals at one location be used by an employee, but terminals at any geographical location of the organization can be used.
  • Time clock terminal 30 is small and inexpensive, but can process very large numbers of employees.
  • touch memories 56 and 56' are not subject to damage by marring or scratching and, furthermore, are not subject to damage by proximity to external magnetic devices as are conventional magnetic stripes on identification cards.
  • touch memories 56 and 56' have, or can easily have, a laser etched serial number therein which is read along with the other identifying information. If a employee's identification has been lost or stolen, it is simple matter to instruct the time clock terminals to reject the identification and to alert supervisory personnel when use of that identification is attempted.
  • Touch memory 56 may also be furnished with a real time clock therein for access by microprocessor 70, instead of providing real time memory 40 in time clock terminal, and such is within the intent of the present invention.
  • memories 56 can be replaced with a conventional "smart card" having a memory embedded therein.
  • the time clock terminals would has provision for a slot for insertion therein of the smart card for reading thereof.

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WO1996030875A1 (fr) * 1995-03-31 1996-10-03 Cheuk Fai Ho Commande ou controle ameliores d'un equipement electrique
GB2302755B (en) * 1995-03-31 1999-02-10 Cheuk Fai Ho Improvements in or relating to controlling or monitoring access to a restricted area
WO2002007105A1 (fr) * 2000-07-14 2002-01-24 Nexus Machines Ltd. Procede et appareil destines a l'enregistrement electronique des donnees temporelles
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