Card type storage medium and card type storage medium issuing apparatus

• US 5,506,397 A
• Filed: 10/28/1994
• Issued: 04/09/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hoshino, Masao
• Primary Examiner(s): Hajec, Donald T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Thien Minh
• Application Number:
  US08/330,741
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/382, 235/492, 235/494, 235/375, 902/4, 902/5
• US Class Current: 235/492
• 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 20/3576 Multiple memory zones on card
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/082 Features insuring the integrity of the data on or in the card
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

Herein disclosed a card type storage medium which can solve inconvenience to owners of the card type storage medium upon PIN verification or data restoration, and a card type storage medium issuing apparatus which issues such card type storage medium. The card type storage medium comprises a storage unit holding a file area including a dedicated file served to hold PINs and file names of data files stored in a directory area in the storage unit such that the PIN and file name of each data file correspond to each other. The card type storage medium holds control information including a master PIN for the dedicated file in the directory area in the storage unit. A recovery information unit is additionally provided in a data file in the file area in the storage unit, which holds recovery information obtained every time the data file is updated. This card type storage medium is applicable to, for example, an IC card.

Claims

1. A card type storage medium comprising a storage unit having a file area holding data in each file as a unit and a directory area holding therein control information units each including a PIN of a data file in said file area and a control unit managing data files in said file area in said storage unit on the basis of said control information units in said directory area in said storage unit, said control unit allowing an access process on a data file by said control unit only when a PIN held in said control information unit in said directory area in said storage unit is in agreement with a PIN inputted from outside, the improvement comprising:

a dedicated file being set in said file area in said storage unit, said dedicated file holding PINs of the data files held in said control information units in said directory area in said storage unit and file names of the data file such that the PIN and the file name of each data file correspond to each other;

another control information unit being set in said directory area in said storage unit, said another control information unit holding a master PIN of said dedicated file.

2. A card type storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the PINs of the respective data files are enciphered to be held in said dedicated file.

3. A card type storage medium comprising:

a storage unit having a file area holding data in each file as a unit and a directory area holding therein control information units each including a PIN of each data file in said file area;

a control unit managing data files in said file area in said storage unit on the basis of said control information units in said directory area in said storage unit, said control unit comprising;

a data file creating means, in response to a data file creating command from outside, setting a control information unit for a data file including a PIN of said data file to create said data file in said file area in said storage unit according to said data file creating command;

a PIN matching mean, in response to a data file access command to gain an access to the data file created by said data file creating means from the outside, making a judgement as to whether the PIN of said data file to be accessed according to said data file access command held in said control information unit in said directory area in said storage unit is in agreement with a PIN included in said data file access command supplied from the outside;

a data file accessing means executing an access process on the data file to be accessed when said PIN matching means judges that said two PINs are in agreement;

a dedicated file creating means, in response to a dedicated file creating command from the outside, setting a control information unit for said dedicated file including a master PIN for said dedicated file to create said dedicated file in said file area in said storage unit according to said dedicated file creating command;

a master PIN matching means, in response to a dedicated file access command to gain an access to said dedicated file created by said dedicated file creating means from the outside, making a judgement as to whether the master PIN of said dedicated file held in said control information unit in said directory area in said storage unit is in agreement with a master PIN included in said dedicated file access command supplied from the outside; and

a dedicated file access means executing an access process on said dedicated file when said master PIN matching means makes a judgement that the above two master PINs are in agreement;

upon issuing said IC card, said dedicated file accessing means writing the PINs of the data files held in said respective control information units in said directory area in said storage unit into said dedicated file such that the PIN and file name of each data file correspond to each other according to a dedicated file accessing command supplied from outside after said dedicated file creating means created said dedicated file.

4. A card type storage medium according to claim 3, wherein PINs for the respective data files are enciphered and held in said dedicated file.

5. A card type storage medium issuing apparatus issuing a card type storage medium, said card type storage medium comprising a storage unit having a file area holding data in each file as a unit therein and a directory area holding therein control information units each including a PIN of a data file in said file area and a control unit managing data files in said file area in said storage unit, which comprising:

a data file creation instructing means setting a control information unit for a data file including a PIN of the data file in said directory area in said storage unit, generating a data file creating command including the PIN of the data file, and transferring it to said card type storage medium in order to create the data file in said file area in said storage unit;

a data file access instructing means generating a data file accessing command including a PIN of a data file to be accessed, and transferring it to said card type storage medium in order to gain an access to the data file created in the file area in said storage unit;

a dedicated file creation instructing means setting a control information unit for a dedicated file including a master PIN of the dedicated file in said directory area in said storage unit, generating a dedicated file creating command including the master PIN, and transferring it to said card type storage medium in order to create the dedicated file in said file area in said storage unit;

a dedicated file access instructing means generating a dedicated file accessing command including the master PIN of the dedicated file, and transferring it to said card type storage medium in order to gain an access to the dedicated file created in said file area in said storage unit;

upon issuing said card type storage medium, after said dedicated file creation instructing means transferred a dedicated file creating command to said card type storage medium, said dedicated file access instructing means generating a dedicated file accessing command including data of PINs and file names of the data files, and transfers it to said card type storage medium, in order to write the PINs and file names of the data files held in said respective control information units in said directory area in said storage unit such that the PIN and file name of each data file correspond to each other.

6. A card type storage medium issuing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when a PIN of said card type storage medium is verified, said dedicated file access instructing means generates a dedicated file access command including the master PIN, and transfers it to said card type storage medium in order to read out data held in said dedicated file in said file area in said storage unit of said card type storage medium whose PIN is to be verified.

7. A card type storage medium issuing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein when data including a PIN and file name of a data file held in said card type storage medium is read out from said dedicated file of said card type storage medium in response to a dedicated file accessing command send out from said dedicated file access instructing means, said data file access instructing means generates a data file accessing command including the PIN read out, and transfers it to said card type storage medium so as to give an instruction to said card type storage medium to verify correctness of the data file corresponding to said PIN read out.

8. A card type storage medium issuing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said card type storage medium issuing apparatus further comprises an enciphering means enciphering the PINs of the data files to be written in said dedicated file in said card type storage medium by said dedicated file access instructing means, and a deciphering means deciphering an enciphered PIN of a data file read out from said dedicated file in said card type storage medium by said dedicated file access instructing means.

9. A card type storage medium issuing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said card type storage medium issuing apparatus further comprises a enciphering means enciphering the PINs of the data files to be written in said dedicated file in said card type storage medium by said dedicated file access instructing means, and a deciphering means deciphering an enciphered PIN of a data file read out from said dedicated file in said card type storage medium by said dedicated file access instructing means.

10. A card type storage medium issuing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said card type storage medium issuing apparatus further comprises a enciphering means enciphering the PINs of the data files to be written in said dedicated file in said card type storage medium by said dedicated file access instructing means, and a deciphering means deciphering an enciphered PIN of a data file red out from said dedicated file in said card type storage medium by said dedicated file access instructing means.