Logistic PKI service system, mobile terminal, logistic PKI service method used for the same, and recording medium in which corresponding program is recorded

• US 20030144968A1
• Filed: 01/23/2003
• Published: 07/31/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Yoshida, Yoshinori, Katayama, Toru
• Application Number:
  US10/348,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20030144968A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/76
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/00 Payment architectures, schemes or protocols apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/02 involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3227 using secure elements embedded in M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3821 Electronic credentials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3829 involving key management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G09C 1/00 Apparatus or methods whereby a given sequence of signs, e.g. an intelligible text, is transformed into an unintelligible sequence of signs by transposing the signs or groups of signs or by replacing them by others according to a predetermined system cryptographic typewriters G09C3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/006 involving public key infrastructure [PKI] trust models network architecture or network communication protocol for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/10 Integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/47 using near field communication [NFC] or radio frequency identification [RFID] modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/77 Graphical identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention provides a logistic PKI service system that improves reliability and security of its distribution portion. An article displayed on a shop terminal is purchased from a user'"'"'s mobile terminal via a network. Then, a shop terminal receives distribution label data from a PKI. The user'"'"'s mobile terminal receives authentication information transmitted by the PKI. The shop terminal generates a distribution label on the basis of the distribution label data from the PKI. Then, the shop terminal attaches the distribution label to the article and then requests a distributor to deliver the article. After the distributor delivers the article to a user, the user'"'"'s mobile terminal reads information from the distribution label attached to the article. The user'"'"'s mobile terminal then carries out information on the basis of the information from the distribution label and the authentication information from the PKI.

Claims

1. A logistic PKI service system comprising:

a terminal apparatus which requests an authentication bureau to provide label data indicative of information on a delivered article before delivery and generates a label to be attached to said delivered article on the basis of said transmitted label data;

the authentication bureau which responds to the request from said terminal apparatus to issue said label data and authentication information on said delivered article; and

a mobile terminal which carries out authentication on the basis of information read from said label attached to said delivered article that has been delivered and said authentication information from said authentication bureau.

2. The logistic PKI service system according to claim 1, wherein said label contains at least information indicative of a source of said delivered article, a requester of said delivered article, and contents of said delivered article.

3. The logistic PKI service system according to claim 2, wherein said label is encrypted using a public key of a receiver of said delivered article and decrypted using a secret key of the receiver of said delivered article upon reception of said delivered article.

4. The logistic PKI service system according to claim 2, wherein said label is printed as a two-dimensional bar code.

5. The logistic PKI service system according to claim 2, wherein said label is a tag comprising an integrated circuit.

6. The logistic PKI service system according to claim 1, wherein said authentication bureau includes means for issuing an electronic signature which certifies the source of said delivered article and means for issuing an electronic signature which certifies the requester of said delivered article.

7. The logistic PKI service system according to claim 2, wherein said mobile terminal decrypts and displays at least the source of said delivered article, the requester of said delivered article, and the contents of said delivered article from said label, as results of authentication of said delivered article.

8. The logistic PKI service system according to claim 1, wherein the requester of said delivered article and the receiver of said delivered article are the same.

9. The logistic PKI service system according to claim 1, wherein the requester of said delivered article and the receiver of said delivered article are different.

10. A mobile terminal comprising means for carrying out authentication on the basis of information read from a label attached to a delivered article and indicating information on the delivered article as well as authentication information on the delivered article which is transmitted by an authentication bureau.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein said label contains at least information indicative of a source of said delivered article, a requester of said delivered article, and contents of said delivered article.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 11, wherein said label is encrypted using a public key of a receiver of said delivered article and decrypted using a secret key of the receiver of said delivered article upon reception of said delivered article.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 11, wherein said label is printed as a two-dimensional bar code.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 11, wherein said label is a tag comprising an integrated circuit.

15. The mobile terminal according to claim 11, wherein said mobile terminal decrypts and displays at least the source of said delivered article, the requester of said delivered article, and the contents of said delivered article from said label, as results of authentication of said delivered article.

16. A logistic PKI service method comprising the steps of:

in a terminal apparatus, requesting an authentication bureau to provide label data indicative of information on a delivered article before delivery and generates a label to be attached to said delivered article on the basis of said label data transmitted in response to the request;

in said authentication bureau, responding to the request from said terminal apparatus to issue said label data and authentication information on said delivered article; and

in a mobile terminal, carrying out authentication on the basis of information read from said label attached to said delivered article that has been delivered and said authentication information from said authentication bureau.

17. The logistic PKI service method according to claim 16, wherein said label contains at least information indicative of a source of said delivered article, a requester of said delivered article, and contents of said delivered article.

18. The logistic PKI service method according to claim 17, wherein said label is encrypted using a public key of a receiver of said delivered article and decrypted using a secret key of the receiver of said delivered article upon reception of said delivered article.

19. The logistic PKI service method according to claim 17, wherein said label is printed as a two-dimensional bar code.

20. The logistic PKI service method according to claim 17, wherein said label is a tag comprising an integrated circuit.

21. The logistic PKI service method according to claim 16, wherein said authentication bureau issues an electronic signature which certifies the source of said delivered article and issues an electronic signature which certifies the requester of said delivered article.

22. The logistic PKI service method according to claim 17, wherein said mobile terminal decrypts and displays at least the source of said delivered article, the requester of said delivered article, and the contents of said delivered article from said label, as results of authentication of said delivered article.

23. The logistic PKI service method according to claim 16, wherein the requester of said delivered article and the receiver of said delivered article are the same.

24. The logistic PKI service method according to claim 16, wherein the requester of said delivered article and the receiver of said delivered article are different.

25. A recording medium in which a program is recorded to execute the steps of:

in a terminal apparatus, requesting an authentication bureau to provide label data indicative of information on a delivered article before delivery and generates a label to be attached to said delivered article on the basis of said label data transmitted in response to the request;

in said authentication bureau, responding to the request from said terminal apparatus to issue said label data and authentication information on said delivered article; and

in a mobile terminal, carrying out authentication on the basis of information read from said label attached to said delivered article that has been delivered and said authentication information from said authentication bureau.

26. The recording medium according to claim 25, wherein said label contains at least information indicative of a source of said delivered article, a requester of said delivered article, and contents of said delivered article.

27. The recording medium according to claim 26, wherein said label is encrypted using a public key of a receiver of said delivered article and decrypted using a secret key of the receiver of said delivered article upon reception of said delivered article.

28. The recording medium according to claim 26, wherein said label is printed as a two-dimensional bar code.

29. The recording medium according to claim 26, wherein said label is a tag comprising an integrated circuit.

30. The recording medium according to claim 25, wherein said authentication bureau issues an electronic signature which certifies the source of said delivered article and issues an electronic signature which certifies the requester of said delivered article.

31. The recording medium according to claim 26, wherein said mobile terminal decrypts and displays at least the source of said delivered article, the requester of said delivered article, and the contents of said delivered article from said label, as results of authentication of said delivered article.

32. The recording medium according to claim 25, wherein the requester of said delivered article and the receiver of said delivered article are the same.

33. The recording medium according to claim 25, wherein the requester of said delivered article and the receiver of said delivered article are different.