Controlling an analysis system of biological samples

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8996878-B2
Application number	US-201313899732-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 22, 2013
Priority date	Jun 13, 2012
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

A method for controlling an analysis system is presented. The method comprises receiving, by an encryption unit, authentication data of a user. In the case of a successful authentication, a user-specific security code is generated by the encryption unit. The security code is outputted by the encryption unit to the authenticated user. The security code and the user-ID are received by an authentication unit coupled to the analysis system via a user-interface coupled to the authentication unit. The security code is decrypted by the authentication unit. If the decrypted security code matches with the user-ID, the user is authenticated at the authentication unit and an authentication signal is generated by the authentication unit for permitting the user to initialize at least one function of the analysis system.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for controlling an analysis system, the analysis system comprising an analyzer for analyzing biological samples, the method comprising:
receiving, by an encryption unit, a user-ID of a user and authentication data of the user for authenticating the user at the encryption unit;
in the case of a successful authentication at the encryption unit, generating, by the encryption unit using an encryption algorithm, a user-specific security code taking the user-ID a…

Assignees

• Roche Diagnostics Operations

Inventors

• Gramelspacher Lothar
• Knafel Andrzej

Classifications

• G06F21/602 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G16H10/60

  Physics · mapped topic

• A61B5/7285

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G06F21/36

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/31 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic