Portable terminal apparatus for IC card compatible with a plurality of applications

• US 5,815,658 A
• Filed: 01/29/1997
• Issued: 09/29/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kuriyama, Ryouichi
• Primary Examiner(s): PITTS, HAROLD I
• Application Number:
  US08/791,782
• Time in Patent Office: 608 Days
• Field of Search: 395/186, 235/379, 235/380, 235/492
• US Class Current: 726/20
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0241 of the IC-card-like type
• 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 7/0886 the card reader being portable for interacting with a POS or ECR in realizing a payment transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

A data processing apparatus for an IC card includes an interface section for receiving and accessing an integrated circuit medium, a first application function for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of the first application, a second application function for performing data processing on the basis of the second application, and a control unit for selecting one of the first and second application functions on the basis of an instruction from a keyboard and controlling it so as to perform data processing.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus for an integrated circuit medium, comprising:

means for receiving and accessing the integrated circuit medium storing data;

first processing means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of a first application;

second processing means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of a second application different from the first application;

means for inputting an instruction concerning data processing of the integrated circuit medium;

means for selecting one of the first processing means and the second processing means in accordance with the instruction input from the inputting means; and

means for controlling one of the first processing means and the second processing means which is selected by the selecting means so as to perform data processing.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for storing necessity/nonnecessity data concerning necessity/nonnecessity of key collation in correspondence with one of the first application and the second applications; and

means for determining whether the key collation is necessary by reading the necessity/nonnecessity data corresponding to one of the first and second applications which is selected by the selection means.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the determining means includes:

means for displaying a message which causes an operator to input data for the key collation when the determinating means determines that the key collation is necessary; and

third processing means for performing processing on the basis of the selected one of the first application and the second application when the determining means determines that the key collation is unnecessary.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the third processing means includes:

means for reading and displaying data of the integrated circuit medium.

5. An apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

collation means for executing the key collation by comparing predetermined data with the input data when the determinating means determines that the key collation is necessary, and data for the key collation is input;

means for reading and displaying data corresponding to the selected one of the first application and the second application of the integrated circuit medium when a result of the collation means is determined to be normal; and

means for displaying an error when the result of the collation means is determined to be abnormal.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

third processing means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of at least one third application different from the first and second applications;

means for selecting one of the first, second, and third processing means in accordance with the instruction input from the inputting means; and

means for controlling one of the first, second, and third processing means which is selected by the selecting means so as to perform data processing.

7. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first processing means includes:

means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of an application concerning a credit card,

the second processing means includes;

means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of an application concerning point accumulation, and

the third processing means includes;

means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of an application concerning a prepaid card.

8. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first processing means and the second processing means include respectively:

means for performing a data read operation and a data write operation on the basis of an application selected for the integrated circuit medium; and

means for displaying the read data.

9. A data processing apparatus for an integrated circuit medium, comprising:

means for receiving and accessing the integrated circuit medium storing data;

first processing means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of a first application;

second processing means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of a second application different from the first application;

third processing means for performing data processing for the integrated circuit medium on the basis of at least one third application different from the first and second applications;

means for inputting an instruction concerning data processing of the integrated circuit medium;

means for selecting one of the first, second, and third processing means in accordance with the instruction input from the inputting means;

means for controlling one of the first, second, and third processing means which is selected by the selecting means so as to perform data processing;

means for storing necessity/nonnecessity data concerning necessity/nonnecessity of key collation in correspondence with one of the first, second, and third applications;

means for determining whether the key collation is necessary by reading the necessity/nonnecessity data corresponding to one of the first, second, and third applications which is selected by the selecting means;

means for displaying a message which causes an operator to input data for the key collation when the determining means determines that the key collation is necessary; and

means for reading and displaying data of the integrated circuit medium on the basis of the selected one of the first, second, and third applications when the determining means determines that the key collation is unnecessary.

10. A portable terminal apparatus, receives an IC card storing data every a plurality of applications, reads the data from the received IC card and displays the read data, comprising:

means for selecting one of the plurality of applications;

means for determining whether key collation is necessary or not for data reading of the selected application after the selecting means selected one of the plurality of applications;

means for inputting a password data for the key collation to the IC card when the determining means determines that the key collation is necessary;

means for controlling the IC card so as to perform the key collation on the basis of the input password by the inputting means;

means for reading the data of the selected application from the received IC card, when the key collation of the controlling means judged as being right or the determining means determined that the key collation is unnecessary; and

means for displaying the read data by the reading means.

11. An apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

means for storing necessity/nonnecessity data concerning necessity/nonnecessity of key collation in correspondence with one of a first application and a second applications; and

means for determining whether the key collation is necessary by reading the necessity/nonnecessity data corresponding to one of the first and second applications which is selected.