Mobile communication terminal including non-contact IC card and method of transferring transaction information

• US 20040195325A1
• Filed: 04/02/2004
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kogawa, Ryutaro
• Granted Patent: US 7,195,174 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/451
• 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 20/403 Solvency checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4037 Remote solvency checks
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/08 by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means without personal verification means G07F7/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal in accordance with the present invention includes a non-contact IC card into which an external IC-card reader/writer can write transaction information. The mobile communication terminal, when transaction information is written into the non-contact IC card, transforms the transaction information into an electric mail, and transmits the electric mail to a predetermined address.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal including a non-contact IC card into which an external IC-card reader/writer can write transaction information, wherein said mobile communication terminal, when transaction information is written into said non-contact IC card, transforms said transaction information into an electric mail, and transmits said electric mail to a predetermined address.

2. The mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein said predetermined address is varied by a user by inputting a new address into said mobile communication terminal.

3. The mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 2, wherein said predetermined address is allowed to be varied after said user is authenticated.

4. The mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 3, wherein authentication is carried out when a password which said user inputs to said mobile communication terminal is identical with a predetermined password.

5. The mobile communication terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein said mobile communication terminal is comprised of a cellular phone.

6. A method of transferring transaction information in a mobile communication terminal including a non-contact IC card into which an external IC-card reader/writer can write transaction information, including:

(a) when transaction information is written into said non-contact IC card, transforming said transaction information into an electric mail; and

(b) transmitting said electric mail to a predetermined address.

7. The method as set forth in claim 6, further comprising varying said predetermined address by inputting a new address into said mobile communication terminal.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7, further comprising making authentication as to whether a person who input said new address is really a user of said mobile communication terminal, before said predetermined address is varied.

9. A program for causing a computer to carry out a method of transferring transaction information in a mobile communication terminal including a non-contact IC card into which an external IC-card reader/writer can write transaction information, steps executed by said computer in accordance with said program including:

(a) when transaction information is written into said non-contact IC card, transforming said transaction information into an electric mail; and

(b) transmitting said electric mail to a predetermined address.

10. The program as set forth in claim 9, wherein said steps further include varying said predetermined address when a user of said mobile communication terminal inputs a new address into said mobile communication terminal.

11. The program as set forth in claim 10, wherein said steps further include making authentication as to whether a person who input said new address is really a user of said mobile communication terminal, before said predetermined address is varied.