KEY MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• US 20100266129A1
• Filed: 11/10/2008
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ICON PLC
• Original Assignee: ICON PLC
• Inventors: Tsuchiya, Toshiko
• Application Number:
  US12/742,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20100266129A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/278
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/80 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/88 Medical equipments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/06 for supporting key management in a packet data network cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key management H04L9/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0894 Escrow, recovery or storing of secret information, e.g. secret key escrow or cryptographic key storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/6009 Personal information, e.g. profiles or personal directories being only provided to authorised persons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/04 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5116 for emergency applications

Abstract

An information transmission system includes a terminal device connected to a server device. Transmission destination information and transmission source information are encrypted and correlated with a user identifier when this information is stored in a storage unit for the server device. By using the user identifier and a decryption key which are reported when a transmission command button of the terminal device is pressed, the transmission destination information and the transmission source information are read out and decrypted by a decryption unit. A transmission unit for the server device transmits the transmission source information to a transmission destination specified by the transmission destination information.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. An information transmission system in which a terminal device and a server device are connected, wherein:

the terminal device comprises;

a key generation unit that generates an encryption key and a decryption key;

a terminal device memory unit that stores an user identification information for identifying the user owning the terminal device and stores the decryption key;

an encryption processing unit that encrypts a transmission destination information containing an information related to the transmission destination and a transmission source information containing an information related to the user of the terminal device using the encryption key;

a first terminal device transmission unit that transmits the encrypted transmission destination information and the encrypted transmission source information;

an operation unit that has information input buttons containing a transmission command button;

a terminal device control unit that generates a transmission command, and reads out the user identification information and the decryption key from the terminal device memory unit, when an occurrence of an emergency is notified from the operation unit;

a second terminal device transmission unit that transmits the transmission command, the user identification information and the decryption key; and

the server device comprises;

a server device memory unit that stores the transmission destination information and the transmission source information received from the terminal device with correlating to the user identification information;

a decryption unit that reads out the transmission destination information and the transmission source information from the server device memory unit, and decrypts the transmission destination information and the transmission source information using the decryption key, when receiving the transmission command, the user identification information and the decryption key from the terminal device; and

a server device transmission unit that transmits the transmission source information to the transmission destination specified by the transmission destination information.

16. The information transmission system according to claim 15, wherein:

the terminal device control unit starts to generate a location information of the terminal device one by one at a predetermined time interval when the state of emergency is notified,

the second terminal device transmission unit transmits the generated location information to the server device one by one at the predetermined time interval, and

the server device transmission unit transmits at least the received location information to the transmission destination one by one at the predetermined time interval.

17. The information transmission system according to claim 16, wherein the terminal device control unit invalidates the operation of shutting-down the power supply with displaying the picture indicating the shutting-down of the power supply on the display unit, and transmits at least the location information to the server device one by one at the predetermined time interval, when the operation for shutting-down the power supply is performed after the notification of the occurrence of the emergency.

18. The information transmission system according to claim 15, wherein:

the server device memory unit correlates the transmission destination information and the transmission source information with various kinds of behavioral patterns executed by the user, and stores them, and

the decryption unit reads out and decrypts the stored transmission destination information and the stored transmission source information correlated to the behavioral pattern selected and stored in advance from among the various kinds of the stored behavioral pattern.

19. The information transmission system according to claim 15, wherein the server device transmission unit stops the transmitting of the transmission source information to the transmission destination when the transmission cancellation command is provided from the transmission destination.

20. An information transmission method, comprising;

a first step that the terminal device generates an encryption key and a decryption key;

a second step that the terminal device stores an user identification information for identifying the user owning the terminal device and stores the decryption key to the internal terminal device memory unit;

a third step that the terminal device encrypts a transmission destination information containing a information related to the transmission destination and a transmission source information containing a information related to the user of the terminal device using the encryption key;

a fourth step that the terminal device transmits the encrypted transmission destination information and the encrypted transmission source information;

a fifth step that the server device stores the transmission destination information and the transmission source information received from the terminal device with correlating to the user identification information;

a sixth step that the terminal device generates a transmission command, and reads out the user identification information and the decryption key from the terminal device memory unit, when a state of emergency is notified from the operation unit;

a seventh step that the terminal device transmits the transmission command, the user identification information and the decryption key to the server unit;

a eighth step that the server device receives the transmission command, the user identification information and the decryption key, reads out the transmission destination information and the transmission source information related to the user identification information from the server device memory unit, and decrypts the transmission destination information and the transmission source information using the decryption key; and

a ninth step that the server device transmits the transmission source information to the transmission destination specified by the transmission destination information.

21. The information transmission method according to claim 20, wherein;

the first step contains a third key generation step of generating the encryption key by the predetermined encryption processing using one or more of the decryption key, the user identification information and random number computation, and

the eighth step contains a first decryption step of decrypting the transmission destination information and the transmission source information using the encryption key generated in the third key generation step.

22. The information transmission method according to claim 20, further comprising a storing step that the server device encrypts an old user identification information and a new user identification information using a predetermined common key, and stores them into the server device memory unit, when a request for changing the user identification information is received.

23. The information transmission method according to claim 22, further comprising a second decryption processing step of acquiring the old user identification information corresponding to the new user identification information from the server device memory unit when the new user identification information is received from the terminal device, and decrypting the old user identification information using the predetermined common key.

24. The information transmission method according to claim 20, further comprising;

a tenth step that the terminal device starts to generate the location information of the terminal device one by one at a predetermined time interval when the occurrence of the emergency is notified from the operation unit,

a eleventh step that the terminal device transmits the generated location information to the server device one by one at the predetermined time interval, and

a twelfth step that the server device transmits at least the received location information to the transmission destination one by one at the predetermined time interval.

25. The information transmission method according to claim 24, wherein the server device invalidates the operation of shutting-down the power supply with displaying the picture indicating the shutting-down of the power supply on the display unit, and executes the eleventh step, when the operation of shutting-down the power supply is performed after the notification of the occurrence of the emergency.

26. The information transmission method according to claim 20, wherein;

the fifth step is the step that the transmission destination information and the transmission source information are correlated with various kinds of behavioral patterns executed by the user, and stored into the server device memory unit, and

the eighth step is the step that the transmission destination information and the transmission source information are read out based on the correlated behavioral pattern selected and stored in advance from among the various kinds of the behavioral patterns, and decrypted.

27. The information transmission method according to claim 20, further comprising a thirteenth step that the server device stops the transmitting of the transmission source information to the transmission destination when the transmission cancellation command is provided from the transmission destination to the sever device.

28. The information transmission method according to claim 20, wherein the first step comprises;

a first key generation step of generating the encryption key when the specified information for generating the encryption key used for encrypting the transmission destination information and the transmission source information is provided,

a second key generation step of generating the decryption key correlated with the encryption key using the specified encryption processing which contain one or more of a user identification information for identifying the user owning the terminal device, the encryption key and random number computation,

a first encryption step of encrypting the user identification information using the predetermined common key, and

a second encryption step of encrypting the transmission destination information and the transmission source information using the encryption key generated at the first key generation step.