Management of Dematerialized Safes

• US 20100198721A1
• Filed: 07/28/2008
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Almerys
• Original Assignee: Almerys
• Inventors: Caredda, Laurent
• Application Number:
  US12/670,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20100198721A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6272 by registering files or documents with a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems

Abstract

The invention pertains to the management and sharing of dematerialised safes, and relates to a method for managing a secured storage space (C1) or dematerialised safe associated with a first user (U1), that comprises allocating for a predetermined portion (C1i) of said space access rights to a second user (AUi) so that said predetermined portion defines a secured exchange space between said first user and said second user. This exchange space is dedicated to exchanges between the first and second users and is accessible through a secured link upon the implementation of at least one transaction between the first and second users that implies the execution of at least a first action on the content of the first portion.

Claims

1. A management method for dematerialised safes, comprising a step for attributing, for at least one first portion of a secured storage space associated to a first user, access rights to an identified second user, wherein the first portion forms an exchange space, associated to first and second users and accessible via a secured link when at least one transaction is carried out between the first and second users involving the execution of at least one first action on the contents of the first portion.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising a step to authenticate a user requesting access to the first portion.

3. The method according to claim 1, comprising a step to carry out, on request from a user, a transaction between the first and second users involving the execution of at least one first action on the contents of the first portion, on the condition that the user making the request is authenticated and has access rights for the first portion which authorise said first action.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said transaction involves the execution of at least one second action on the contents of another portion of said storage space or another storage space associated to another user.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said transaction comprises an action to transfer contents from the first portion to another portion of a secured storage space or vice versa.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storage space further comprises a second portion, called the private portion, for which the first user has all of the access rights and management rights to share elements of the private portion with at least one third user.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storage space further comprises a third portion, called the public portion, for which the first user has attributed to a plurality of users access rights comprising at least reading rights.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said rights are attributed for a predetermined period of time or for a given date.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said rights are attributed for the execution of a predetermined maximum number of times of said action.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein said rights are attributed to execute a predetermined process.

11. A computer program comprising program code instructions for execution when said computer program is executed on a computer of a step for attributing, for at least one first portion of a secured storage space associated to a first user, access rights to an identified second user, wherein the first portion forms an exchange space, associated to first and second users and accessible via a secured link when at least one transaction is carried out between the first and second users involving the execution of at least one first action on the contents of the first portion.

12. A management server of at least one dematerialised safe, comprising means of attributing access rights to attribute, for at least one first portion of a secured storage space associated to a first user, access rights to a second identified user, wherein the first portion forms an exchange space, associated to first and second users and accessible via a secured link when at least one transaction is carried out between the first and second users involving the execution of at least one first action on the contents of the first portion.

13. A date storage support comprising a secured storage space associated to a first user, for a first portion for which access rights are attributed to a second identified user, wherein the first portion forms an exchange space, associated to first and second users and accessible via a secured link when at least one transaction is carried out between the first and second users involving the execution of at least one first action on the contents of the first portion.

14. A security module associated to a first user to which a secured storage space is associated, characterised in that it comprises means of storing access data in a predetermined portion of said storage space for which access rights are attributed to a second identified user, wherein the first portion forms an exchange space, associated to first and second users and accessible via a secured link when at least one transaction is carried out between the first and second users involving the execution of at least one first action on the contents of the first portion.

15. The security module according to claim 14, characterised in that it comprises data for access to the entire secured storage space.

16. A use of a security module for the carrying out of a transaction between the first and second users requesting access to said exchange space wherein the security module is associated to a first user to which a secured storage space is associated, characterized in that it comprises means for storing access data in a predetermined portion of the storage space for which access rights are attributed to a second identified user, wherein the first portion forms an exchange space, associated to first and second users and accessible via a secured link when at least one transaction is carried out between the first and second users involving the execution of at least one first action on the contents of the first portion.

17. The use according to claim 16 wherein said transaction is a payment transaction.