METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CUSTOMIZING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC ENTITY

• US 20090235037A1
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IDEMIA France (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oberthur Technologies SA
• Inventors: Mounier, Regis, Louis, Jean-Marc
• Granted Patent: US 8,424,770 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/161
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07716 the record carrier comprising means for customization, e.g. being arranged for personalization in batch
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3552 Downloading or loading of personalisation data
• 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: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

A device (200) for customizing a portable electronic entity (100), that includes: elements for storing a plurality of groups of customization data; elements (280) for communication with a non-rewritable memory (130) of the portable electronic entity, for receiving a first identifier (415) stored in the non-rewritable memory; elements for selecting at least one group of customization data according to the first identifier; and elements (240) for customizing the portable electronic entity according to each selected group of customization data. Preferably, the elements for storing a plurality of groups of customization data are designed so that each group of customization data is associated with a second identifier, the device includes elements for associating a second identifier with the first identifier, and the selection elements are designed in order to select at least one group of data according to the second identifier corresponding to the first identifier.

Claims

1-43. -43. (canceled)

44. A device for customizing a portable electronic entity, that includes:

storage elements for storing a plurality of groups of customization data,

communication elements for communicating with a non-rewritable memory of said portable electronic entity, for receiving a first identifier retained in said non-rewritable memory, said first identifier being at least a part of a message supplied by the portable electronic entity when it was powered up,

selection elements for selecting at least one group of customization data according to the first identifier, and

customization elements for customizing said portable electronic entity according to each selected group of customization data.

45. A device according to claim 44, wherein the storage elements are designed so that each group of customization data is associated with a second identifier, the device includes association elements for associating a second identifier with said first identifier, wherein the selection elements are adapted to select at least one group of customization data according to the second identifier corresponding to the first identifier.

46. A device according to claim 44, wherein:

the communication elements are designed so that said electronic entity conforms at least partly to the ISO 7816 standard and so that said message is an ATR (“

answer to reset”

), and

the communication elements are adapted to perform a reset of the portable electronic entity and to receive the first identifier in at least part of a message supplied by the portable electronic entity when it was reset.

47. A device according to claim 44, wherein the communication elements are adapted to receive a first identifier that includes at least one “

history”

byte according to the ISO 7816 standard (bytes T1, T2, . . . T9) of the ATR.

48. A device according to claim 44, wherein:

the storage elements are designed so that said groups of customization data include at least one image of the structure of the non-volatile memory of the portable electronic entity, representative of the content and file size of the portable electronic entity and of the memory areas of the portable electronic entity containing variables, and their value, excluding data specific to the future holder of the portable electronic entity, and

the customization elements are adapted to complete the blank fields of said structure image with customization data.

49. A device according to claim 44, wherein the electronic entity is a secured microcontroller card conforming at least partly to the ISO 7816 standard.

50. A device according to claim 44, that includes:

processing elements adapted to process said customization data and to generate at least one group of instructions for customizing the portable electronic entity, at least one group of customization instructions including at least one customization control instruction enabling a customization station to control the correct execution of at least one customization instruction, at least one customization instruction of a group of customization instructions enabling the portable electronic entity to write data into the memory of the portable electronic entity, and

transmission elements for transmitting each group of customization instructions.

51. A device according to claim 50, wherein the processing elements are also adapted to generate at least one customization report instruction enabling the customization station to confirm to the device that at least a part of a group of customization instructions has been correctly executed, and to insert at least one report instruction in at least one group of customization instructions, the transmission elements being adapted to transmit at least one report instruction addressed to the customization station, the device also including receiving elements for receiving at least one report originating from the customization station.

52. A device according to claim 50, that also includes analyzis elements adapted to analyze at least one received report and initiating an action according to the result of said analysis.

53. A device according to claim 50, wherein the processing elements include defining elements for defining groups of customization instructions such that the processing elements need the execution report of at least one of the preceding instructions to generate the first instruction of the next group of customization instructions.

54. A device according to claim 50, wherein the communication elements are designed also to receive at least one identifier of said customization station.

55. A device according to claim 50, wherein the processing elements are adapted to generate at least one group of customization instructions in parallel with the execution of a group of customization instructions by the customization station.

56. A device according to claim 44, that includes:

receiving elements for receiving at least one group of customization instructions from the portable electronic entity, at least one group of instructions including at least one customization control instruction making it possible to control the correct execution of at least one customization instruction, at least one customization instruction of a group of customization instructions enabling the portable electronic entity to write data into the memory of the portable electronic entity,

transmission elements for transmitting at least one customization instruction to the portable electronic entity, and

processing elements adapted to process each control instruction to control the correct execution of at least one customization instruction by the portable electronic entity.

57. A device according to claim 56, wherein the processing elements are adapted to perform at least one control instruction on at least one customization instruction after the transmission elements have transmitted, to the portable electronic entity, another customization instruction unaffected by said control instruction.

58. A device according to claim 56, wherein the reception elements are also adapted to receive at least one customization report instruction and the processing elements are also adapted to prepare an execution report on at least one group of customization instructions, the device also including transmission elements for transmitting reports to a customization server.

59. A device according to claim 56, wherein the reception elements are adapted to extract at least one report instruction from at least one group of customization instructions.

60. A method for customizing a portable electronic entity, that comprises:

a step for storing, in a customization device, a plurality of groups of customization data,

a step for communicating with a non-rewritable memory of said portable electronic entity, to receive a first identifier retained in said non-rewritable memory, said first identifier being at least a part of a message supplied by the portable electronic entity when it is powered up,

a step for selecting, by said customization device, at least one group of customization data according to the first identifier, and

a step for customizing said portable electronic entity according to each selected group of customization data.