Electronic entity with contact and remote communication means

• US 20100060415A1
• Filed: 07/24/2006
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oberthur Technologies SA (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oberthur Card Systems, S.A. (Advent International Corporation)
• Inventors: Goyet, Christophe
• Granted Patent: US 9,111,188 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.740
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07716 the record carrier comprising means for customization, e.g. being arranged for personalization in batch
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07769 the further communication means being a galvanic interface, e.g. hybrid or mixed smart cards having a contact and a non-contact interface
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10198 setting parameters for the interrogator, e.g. programming parameters and operating modes

Abstract

An electronic entity includes contact communication elements (4) and remote communication elements (6). Members (2, K) are also provided to authorize an exchange of certain data at least via the remote communication elements based on the prior reception of an instruction via the contact communication elements. A terminal for communication with such an electronic entity as well as methods for controlling and for customizing the electronic entity are disclosed.

Claims

1. Electronic entity comprising:

contact communication means (4;

14);

contactless communication means (6;

16);

characterized by

means (2, K;

12) for authorizing an exchange of certain data at least via the contactless communication means as a function of the reception before an instruction via the contact communication means.

2. Electronic entity according to claim 1, characterized by:

means (18) for storing activation information controlled by said instruction;

means (12) for authorizing the exchange of said data via the contactless communication means in the presence of said activation information.

3. Electronic entity according to claim 2, characterized by means for inhibiting the exchange of said data via the contactless communication means in the absence of said activation information.

4. Electronic entity according to claim 1, characterized in that the contactless communication means comprise an antenna (6) and said means for authorizing an exchange comprise means (2, CMD) for commanding connection (K) of the antenna to a microcircuit (2) on the basis of said instruction.

5. Electronic entity according to

claim 1, characterized in that it is a microcircuit card.

6. Terminal comprising

contact means for communication with an electronic entity comprising contactless communication means,

characterized by

means for sending, via the contact communication means, an instruction intended to condition an exchange of certain data at least via the contactless communication means.

7. Portable terminal according to claim 6.

8. Method of controlling an electronic entity comprising contact communication means and contactless communication means, characterized by the following steps:

reception of an activation instruction (E6;

E20) via the contact communication means;

authorization of exchange (E8;

E24) of certain data at least via the contactless communication means on reception of said activation instruction.

9. Method according to claim 8, characterized by a step (E10, E12;

E38, E42) of exchanging said data via the contactless communication means conditioned by said authorization.

10. Method according to claim 9, characterized in that the authorization is effected by setting (E24) activation information to a predetermined value and said conditional exchange step comprises the following steps:

verification (E34) that the value of the activation information is equal to the predetermined value;

exchange of said data (E38, E42) via the contactless communication means only in the case of positive verification.

11. Method according to claim 10, characterized by a step (E40) of setting the activation information to a value that is the complement of the predetermined value at a particular time.

12. Method according to claim 8, characterized by a step (E16) of inhibition of the exchange of said data at a particular time.

13. Method according to claim 11, characterized in that the particular time corresponds to the reception (E14) of an end of communication command by the contactless communication means.

14. Method according to claim 11, characterized in that the particular time is determined by a time-delay.

15. Method according to claim 11, characterized in that the particular time is reached after reception of a predetermined number of commands via the contactless communication means.

16. Method according to claim 11, characterized in that the particular time corresponds to the completion of a communication initialization step (E38).

17. Method of personalizing an electronic entity comprising contactless communication means, characterized by a step of writing activation information intended to condition the exchange of certain data at least via the contactless communication means.

18. Method according to claim 17, characterized in that the electronic entity comprises contact communication means and said activation information can be modified on reception of an instruction via the contact communication means.

19. Method according to claim 17, characterized by a step of writing configuration information representing conditions for modification of the activation information.

20. Method of personalizing an electronic entity comprising contactless communication means, characterized by a step of writing configuration information representing conditions for modification of activation information intended to condition the exchange of certain data at least via the contactless communication means.