DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRANSACTION REQUEST IN PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT OF TRUST ZONE

• US 20150302201A1
• Filed: 08/16/2013
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: RYU, Jae-min
• Application Number:
  US14/421,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20150302201A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/57 Certifying or maintaining trusted computer platforms, e.g. secure boots or power-downs, version controls, system software checks, secure updates or assessing vulnerabilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/034 Test or assess a computer or a system
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction

Abstract

Provided is a device and method for operating a transaction application in a trust zone. The method includes confirming, by a processor, whether a transaction request from the application is performed in a processing environment of a secure world, and requesting an output unit, by the processor, for an output of notification information that corresponds to a result of the confirming, wherein the output of the notification information indicates that the transaction request is safe in response to the transaction request being performed in the processing environment of the secure world.

Claims

1. A method for operating a transaction application in a trust zone, the method comprising:

confirming, by a processor, whether a transaction request from the application is performed in a processing environment of a secure world; and

requesting an output unit, by the processor, for an output of notification information that corresponds to a result of the confirming,

wherein the output of the notification information indicates that the transaction request is safe in response to the transaction request being performed in the processing environment of the secure world.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the confirming and the requesting are performed by the processor corresponding to the processing environment of the secure world.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a first processor corresponding to the processing environment of the secure world and a second processor corresponding to the processing environment of the normal world are included in the processor and logically distinguished from each other.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining security information from a subscriber identification module (SIM) card that is controlled in the processing environment of the secure world in response to the transaction request being performed in the processing environment of the secure world.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a security key from the application; and

providing the received security key to a SIM card controlled in the processing environment of the secure world,

wherein the received security key is provided to the SIM card in response to the application being authenticated in the processing environment of the secure world.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the output unit is a light-emitting diode (LED) lamp, the method further comprising lighting the LED lamp in response to the request for the output of the notification information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the output unit is a display, the method further comprising displaying the notification information on the display in response to the request for the output of the notification information.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that is executable by a computer to perform the method of claim 1.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising operating the transaction application, by the processor, selectively in the processing environment of the secure world or a processing environment of a normal world.

8. A device for operating a transaction application in a trust zone, the device comprising:

a processor configured to confirm whether a transaction request from the transaction application is performed in a processing environment of a secure world and request for an output of notification information that corresponds to a result of the confirmation; and

an output unit configured to output the notification information that indicates the transaction request is safe in response to the transaction request is performed in the processing environment of the secure world.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the processor comprises a first processor corresponding to the processing environment of the secure world and a second processor corresponding to a processing environment of a normal world, and the first processor provides the output of the notification information to the output unit.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the first processor and the second processor are included in one processor and are logically distinguished from each other.

11. The device of claim 8, wherein operations of the application are divided into an operation performed in the processing environment of the secure world and an operation performed in a processing environment of a normal world.

12. The device of claim 8, further comprising a subscriber identification module (SIM) card controlled in the processing environment of the secure world, and wherein the processor is further configured to obtain security information from the SIM card in response to the transaction request being performed in the processing environment of the secure world.

13. The device of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to receives a security key from the application, and the received security key being provided to a SIM card controlled in the processing environment of the secure world in response the application being authenticated in the processing environment of the secure world.

14. The device of claim 8, wherein the output unit comprises at least one of a light-emitting diode (LED) and a screen included in the device.

17. A method of a processor operating a transaction application, the method comprising:

generating a transaction request from the application;

determining whether the transaction request is performed in the processing environment of the secure world; and

obtaining security information, from a subscriber identification module (SIM) card in response to the transaction request being performed in the processing environment of the secure world.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

obtaining a security key from the application;

authenticating the transaction application in the processing environment of the secure world; and

storing the security key in the SIM card in response the transaction application being authenticated.