AGE VERIFICATION SYSTEM FOR SELF-SERVICE CONTENT ACCESS TERMINAL

摘要

A system for controlling access to content requested by a user at a self-service terminal. One embodiment of the invention includes jurisdiction tables, a filter engine, an age verification engine and a content gatekeeper. The jurisdiction tables include decryption and/or decoding information for each of a plurality of drivers license or other document-issuing jurisdictions. The filter engine determines whether the requested content is age dependent. The age verification engine receives encrypted and/or encoded age information representative of a user's age read from a storage medium on a drivers license or other document issued by the jurisdiction, and jurisdiction information representative of the identity of the jurisdiction that issued the document. The age verification engine identifies the jurisdiction table associated with the jurisdiction that issued the document as a function of the jurisdiction information, decrypts and/or decodes the age information as a function of the identified jurisdiction table to determine the user's age, and determines whether the user's age is appropriate for the requested content. The content gatekeeper grants or denies access to the content as a function of the age determination.