KR102118680B1 - System and method for managing the record of duty-free product purchasement - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is a duty-free purchase history management system using an e-passport, an IC chip, an electronic passport storing duty-free purchase history in a memory of the IC chip, and a duty-free shop terminal recording duty-free purchase history in the memory of the electronic passport. And a smartphone that reads the purchase history of duty-free goods recorded in the electronic passport through short-range wireless communication (hereinafter referred to as NFC).

Description

System and method for purchasing duty-free goods using ePassport {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE RECORD OF DUTY-FREE PRODUCT PURCHASEMENT}

The present invention relates to a duty-free purchase history management, and more particularly, to a duty-free purchase history management system and method using an e-passport.

When a foreigner purchases an item at a domestic duty-free shop, foreigners are required to reimburse domestic taxes such as VAT when leaving the country, and Koreans also provide tax-free benefits for items within the duty-free limit ($400 when entering or leaving the country). However, in order to receive such a tax refund, in the past, purchase receipts at a post duty-free store were collected, and upon departure, a refund statement must be prepared based on the receipts to receive the refund.

However, such a conventional VAT refund method has a problem in that, if the receipt is lost, it may not be possible to receive VAT refund, and it is cumbersome to collect and keep receipts for each purchase of duty-free goods.

Meanwhile, when a Korean travels abroad, the limit for purchasing duty-free goods is $3000, the duty-free limit is $400, and tax is levied on duty-free items above the duty-free limit. Therefore, in order to manage this, it is necessary to prepare a tax return related to the purchase of duty-free goods when entering Korea after travel abroad. However, in order to confirm the purchase of duty-free goods, there is the inconvenience of conducting a personal goods survey. Moreover, in order to verify the identities of immigrants, an electronic passport must be verified. Conventional ePassport readers are equipped with a contactless terminal conforming to ISO standards. However, since such a non-contact terminal must be connected to a PC, it is inconvenient to use. In addition, the ePassport reader must be equipped with a separate scanner device in addition to the RF terminal, or manually input MRZ data. Accordingly, when reading an e-passport, it may cause inconvenience to a user, an error may occur, and since it must be connected to a PC, there is a spatial limitation that should be used only within a limited space. Recently, a portable reader is under development or development, but there is inconvenience due to problems such as reader size, usability, and price.

The present invention provides a system and method for managing a purchase history of a duty-free product using an e-passport that can check a purchase history of a duty-free product without a receipt for a duty-free product.

The present invention provides a duty-free purchase history management system and method using an e-passport capable of checking the purchase history of duty-free products through a smart phone in possession, without having to provide a separate scanner device or manually inputting MRZ data. do.

The present invention is a duty-free purchase history management system using an e-passport, an IC chip, an electronic passport storing duty-free purchase history in the memory of the IC chip, and a duty-free shop terminal recording duty-free purchase history in the memory of the electronic passport. And a smartphone that reads the purchase history of duty-free goods recorded in the electronic passport through near field communication (hereinafter referred to as NFC).

In the present invention, in a method of managing a purchase history of a duty-free product using an electronic passport at a duty-free shop terminal, as a record of the purchase history of a duty-free product is requested from an immigrant, reading the purchase history of a duty-free product from the electronic passport, and And adding duty-free goods purchase information of the immigration and recording the duty-free goods purchase history to which the duty-free goods purchase information is added to the electronic passport.

The present invention is a method for managing the purchase history of a duty-free product using an electronic passport in a smartphone, and as a record of a purchase history of duty-free goods is requested from an immigrant who has the electronic passport, short-range wireless communication from the electronic passport (Near Field communicaton: NFC) It includes the step of reading the purchase history of duty-free goods, and outputting the read duty-free purchase history.

According to the present invention, it is possible to easily and conveniently check ePassport information anytime, anywhere by reading the ePassport using the NFC function of the smartphone. In addition, by storing the history of purchasing duty-free goods in the e-passport, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of VAT refund due to problems such as the loss of the duty-free purchase receipt. In addition, there is an advantage that it is possible to easily check the duty-free limit by storing the purchase history of the duty-free product in the electronic passport.

1 is a configuration diagram of a duty-free purchase history management system using an e-passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2A and 2B are configuration diagrams of an IC chip provided in an electronic passport according to the present invention.
3 is a block diagram of a smartphone capable of reading an electronic passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a signal flow diagram illustrating a method of recording a purchase history of duty-free goods in an electronic passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a signal flow diagram illustrating a method of reading a purchase history of duty-free goods recorded in an electronic passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the description of the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of related known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted. In addition, terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary according to a user's or operator's intention or practice. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout this specification.

1 is a configuration diagram of a duty-free purchase history management system using an e-passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an IC chip in which information on the immigration 10a is stored is attached to the electronic passport 10. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the IC chip may record the purchase history of duty-free goods of the immigrant 10a as well as the identification information of the immigrant 10a. The IC chip attached to the electronic passport 10 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2A and 2B below.

As the employee 12a of the duty-free shop presents the electronic passport 10 possessed by the immigrant 10a who purchased the duty-free product, the immigrant 10a is entered into the IC chip of the electronic passport 10 using the duty-free terminal 12 ) Records the purchase history of duty-free products purchased at the duty-free shop, and the purchase history of duty-free products can be encrypted and recorded. In addition, the purchase history of duty-free goods recorded on the IC chip may be transmitted to the customs office server 14 and stored. The process for recording the duty free purchase history in the duty free terminal 12 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4 below.

The smartphone 16 reads security-related data of the ePassport 10 using short-range wireless communication (hereinafter referred to as NFC). NFC is a short-range wireless communication method that transmits data at a low power within a distance of 10 cm using a frequency of 13.56 MHz band. NFC is different from Bluetooth or infrared communication, but it can complement each other. Since the communication distance is short, there is an advantage that the user's willingness, that is, the user's choice of whether to use NFC communication can be accurately determined. Meanwhile, the ePassport security function promoted as a standard by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) can distinguish the authentication method of the ePassport 10 according to the importance of information stored in the ePassport.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the smartphone 16 may be a terminal possessed by the immigration officer 10a as well as the customs officer 16a, and may read and output the duty-free purchase history from the e-passport 10. . The detailed configuration of the smartphone 16 and the reading process using the smartphone 16 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 5.

Then, the internal configuration of the IC chip attached to the electronic passport will be described with reference to FIGS. 2A and 2B. According to the present invention, the internal configuration of the IC chip attached to the electronic passport can be implemented in two embodiments depending on whether the electronic passport information management function and duty free purchase history management function are configured as one chip.

2A is an internal configuration diagram of an IC chip provided in an electronic passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2A, the electronic passport may include a chip 110a functioning as an electronic passport information management function and a chip 110b functioning as a duty-free purchase history management function.

The RF antenna 111a may communicate with the duty-free terminal 12 and the smartphone 16. The passport information control unit 112a transmits electronic passport information including personal information, images and bio information of immigrants stored in the memory 113a at the request of the duty-free terminal 12 and the smartphone 16 to the RF antenna 111a. It is transmitted through. At this time, the electronic passport information is encrypted information.

The duty-free purchase history control unit 112b records the duty-free purchase history in the memory 113b according to a request from the duty-free shop terminal 12 through the RF antenna 111a, and an example of the duty-free purchase history is shown in Table 1 below. Same as >.

date Pull-out code price Place code 2012.10.20 12035056 50000 KOR_L1(Lotte) 2012.10.21 10258943 100000 KOR_L2(Shin-ra) 2012.10.30 43567753 120000 KOR_L3 ... ... ... ...

In addition, the duty free purchase history control unit 112b reads the duty free purchase history from the memory 113b at the request of the smartphone 16 and transmits it through the RF antenna 111b. At this time, the purchase history of duty-free goods is encrypted information, and may be a symmetric key-based method or a public key-based method, which are basic encryption algorithms.

2B is an internal configuration diagram of an electronic passport according to another embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2B, when compared with FIG. 2A, the passport information control unit 212a and the duty free purchase history control unit 212b are configured on one chip 200 to share one RF antenna 211 and a memory 213. There is a difference. The function of each component is the same as that of the component in FIG. 2A, and thus detailed description thereof will be omitted.

3 is a block diagram of a smartphone capable of reading an electronic passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the smartphone 16 includes a control unit 300, a camera 310, an NFC unit 320, and a display unit 330. Additionally, the communication unit 340 is further included.

First, in the description of FIG. 3, when it is determined that a description of a known function or configuration of the smartphone 16 may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The camera 310 acquires personal identification information by photographing an e-passport. At this time, the camera 310 may recognize characters in the machine-readable region (MRZ) information of the e-passport. The NFC unit 320 generates an authentication key based on personal identification information obtained through the camera 310. Then, the e-passport is read through NFC using the generated authentication key.

The display unit 330 displays the e-passport reading result through the NFC unit 320 on the screen. The control unit 300 is responsible for the overall control of the smartphone 16.

The NFC unit 320 is not shown, but includes an NFC chip and an antenna.

In addition, the smart phone includes a security memory 322 in the USIM, a secure element in the internal memory (hereinafter referred to as SE) or an SE in the NFC chip. According to an embodiment, the information required for the ePassport readout is a certificate for ePassport authentication, and may be at least one of a CVCA certificate, a DV certificate, and an IS certificate, and these certificates are stored in the secure memory 322.

In addition, the NFC chip includes a central processing unit (CPU) and memory, ROM, EEPROM, RAM, and SRAM. The central processing unit (CPU) performs encryption and calculation for ePassport readout, generates a secret key for ePassport authentication using the data transmitted from the camera, and reads the ePassport (BAC, PA, AA, EAC) )do. The NFC chip converts the NFC protocol to the ISO 14443 protocol when data of the ISO 14443 standard is transmitted from the ePassport. In addition, in order to transmit data of the ISO 14443 standard to the ePassport, the ISO 14443 protocol is converted and transmitted to the electronic passport. This conversion program is stored in the memory of the NFC chip. For example, the conversion program is stored in EEPROM or ROM. The NFC chip processes data transmitted from the ePassport and transmits it to the ePassport using the ISO 14443 protocol.

The electronic passport reading program is stored in the form of an application for the NFC unit 320 of the smartphone. The smart phone reads the e-passport by executing a security-related control command of the e-passport through the electronic passport reading program. Accordingly, the user can increase the user's convenience by downloading the corresponding electronic passport reading program from the corresponding country using a smartphone. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the NFC unit 320 may read a duty free purchase history stored in the electronic passport 10 by driving an electronic passport reading program. The process of reading the duty free purchase history will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 5 below.

4 is a signal flow diagram illustrating a method of recording a purchase history of duty-free goods in an electronic passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the immigrant 10a requests the duty free purchase history record by presenting the e-passport 10 to which the IC chip is attached to the duty free shop employee 12a when the duty free product is purchased (S400 ). Then, the duty free shop employee 12a executes the ePassport reading program of the duty free terminal 12 (S405). Then, the duty-free terminal 12 in which the electronic passport reading program is executed photographs the e-passport 10 or obtains electronic passport information from the memory stored in the IC chip of the electronic passport 10 (S410), and performs identity verification. (S415).

The duty-free shop terminal 12 reads the purchase history of duty-free goods from the electronic passport 10 (S420), and the read-out duty-free purchase history is data in an encrypted state. Therefore, the duty-free shop terminal 12 performs decryption on the purchase history of the duty-free goods (S425). Although not shown in the figure, for this purpose, the duty-free terminal 12 may access the KCS server 14 to obtain a decryption key and perform decryption.

As the duty-free terminal 12 is decrypted, the purchase history of the duty-free product may be displayed on the screen (S430). <Table 1> shows an example of a purchase history of duty-free products displayed on a screen.

Then, the duty-free store employee 12a may add information on the duty-free product purchased by the immigration 10a to the duty-free product purchase history (S435). For example, by adding information on the duty-free product to the purchase history of the duty-free product of <Table 1>, the purchase history of the duty-free product may be updated as shown in <Table 2> below.

date Pull-out code price Place code 2012.10.20 12035056 50000 KOR_L1(Lotte) 2012.10.21 10258943 100000 KOR_L2(Shin-ra) 2012.10.30 43567753 120000 KOR_L3 2012.10.31 10349556 60000 KOR _L1( Lotte )

Referring to <Table 2>, it can be seen that the purchase information for the duty-free goods purchased at Lotte Duty Free Store on October 31, 2012 is added to the purchase history of <Table 1>.

As shown in <Table 2>, the duty-free shop terminal 12 encrypts the purchase history of the duty-free product to which information is added (S440). It may be applied through a symmetric encryption method, which is a basic encryption algorithm, or may be a public key based encryption method.

And, the encrypted purchase history of duty-free goods is recorded in the electronic passport (S445) and is transmitted to the customs office server (14).

5 is a signal flow diagram illustrating a method of reading a purchase history of duty-free goods recorded in an electronic passport according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the immigrant 10a holds the electronic passport 10 to which the IC chip of the immigrant 10a is attached, and then presents the e-passport 10 to the customs officer 16a to request reading. (S500). Then, the customs officer 16a executes the ePassport reading program of the smartphone 16 (S505). Then, using the camera 310, the ePassport 10 is photographed (S510), and the MRZ information of the ePassport 10 is recognized (S515). Thereafter, the NFC unit 320 of the smartphone 16 requests authentication information from the secure memory 322 (S520) and receives it (S525). Then, the authentication key is generated from the MRZ information recognized through the camera 310 (S530).

Subsequently, the NFC unit 320 can read the ePassport 10 through NFC (S535) with the ePassport 10 using the authentication key.

NFC unit 320 reads the purchase history of duty-free goods (S540), the read duty-free purchase history is encrypted data. Therefore, it is necessary to decrypt the history of purchasing duty-free goods. To this end, the NFC unit 320 of the smartphone 16 requests the decryption key from the secure memory 322 (S545) and receives it (S550). Then, the decryption of the read-out duty-free purchase history is performed using the provided decryption key (S555). At this time, the smartphone 16 may display the purchase history of duty-free goods received from the e-passport 10 on the screen (S560).

The NFC unit 320 accesses the customs clearance server 14 through the communication unit 340 and obtains a history of purchasing duty-free goods of the immigrants corresponding to personal information from the electronic passport 12 (S565). That is, it is to obtain the purchase history of duty-free goods delivered to the customs office server 14 by the duty-free terminal 12. Then, the NFC unit 320 compares the purchase history of the duty-free goods read from the e-passport 10 with the purchase history of the duty-free goods obtained from the customs office server 14, and compares the purchase history of the duty-free goods recorded in the electronic passport 10. Operation can be prevented.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the NFC unit 320 of the smartphone 16 determines whether the total purchase amount recorded in the purchase history of the duty-free product exceeds the duty-free limit (S575).

As a result of the determination of S575, when the total purchase amount exceeds the duty-free limit, the NFC unit 320 of the smartphone 16 outputs an alarm on the duty-free limit on the screen (S580).

Here, the duty-free limit is a value that can be set by the user, and may be set to a predetermined amount as well as the duty-free limit. For example, even when the immigration holder 10a with the electronic passport 10 has the smartphone 16, the purchase history of the duty-free goods recorded in the electronic passport 10 can be checked through the smartphone 160. When the immigration holder 10a sets the limit amount according to his/her budget, an alarm is output when the limit amount is reached, which may help with the shopping plan.

Claims (12)

An electronic passport having an IC chip and storing a purchase history of duty-free goods in a memory of the IC chip,
A duty-free shop terminal that records the purchase history of duty-free goods in the memory of the electronic passport;
The history of purchasing duty-free goods recorded in the electronic passport is read through short-range wireless communication (hereinafter referred to as NFC), and a history of purchasing duty-free goods is accessed by accessing a customs office server, and the history of purchasing duty-free goods and customs duties read from the electronic passport. A smartphone that compares the purchase history of duty-free goods obtained from the server and prevents manipulation of the duty-free goods purchase history recorded in the electronic passport; It includes,
The electronic passport is a system for managing the purchase history of duty-free goods using an e-passport in which a chip that functions as an electronic passport information management function and a chip that functions as a duty-free purchase history management function are configured in a separate form.
The method of claim 1, wherein the chip for managing the electronic passport information
A first RF antenna,
A first memory for storing the e-passport information of immigrants,
And a passport information control unit transmitting electronic passport information of an immigration agent stored in the first memory through the first RF antenna at the request of the duty-free shop terminal or the smartphone,
The chip that manages the purchase history of the duty-free goods
A second RF antenna,
A second memory that stores the history of immigration and duty free purchases;
Passport information that stores the purchase history of duty-free goods received from the duty-free shop terminal through the second RF antenna in the second memory and transmits the purchase history of duty-free goods stored in the second memory to the smartphone through the second RF antenna. Duty free purchase history management system, characterized in that it comprises a control unit.
delete The method of claim 1, wherein the duty-free terminal
Duty-free purchase history management system, characterized in that the record of the duty-free purchase history is encrypted and recorded in the electronic passport.
The method of claim 4, wherein the duty-free terminal
Duty-free purchase history management system, characterized in that the encryption of the duty-free purchase history based on a symmetric key or a public key.
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