Data writing apparatus, method, and program for portable terminal memory

• US 7,828,203 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2005
• Issued: 11/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Sonetaka, Noriyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): WALSH, DANIEL I
• Application Number:
  US10/587,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20070158402A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,086 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/487, 235/435, 235/382, 705/26, 705/41, 455/414.1, 455/558, 715/742, 715/744, 715/765
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/2026 Wireless network, e.g. GSM, PCS, TACS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/32 Involving wireless systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/068 using credential vaults, e.g. password manager applications or one time password [OTP] applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

An object is to easily store a data required for actuating a portable terminal, which is used in association with an identification data of a user, while maintaining the security.

The present invention comprises a data reading/writing device having a function of reading out data stored in a memory medium of a portable terminal and a function of writing, to the memory medium, an applicable data which is required for the portable terminal; and a data collation device for collating an identification data which is peculiar to a user of the portable terminal, which is read out from the memory medium by the data reading/writing device, with a user registration data which is registered in advance, and for outputting a writing command to the data reading/writing device only when the data are consistent. The data reading/writing device writes the applicable data to the memory medium on condition that there is an input of the writing command.

Claims

1. A data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory medium comprising:

a portal site data providing device for directly writing portal site data, including a portal site Universal Resource Locator (URL), to the portable terminal memory medium, wherein a portal site comprises a webpage displaying personalized user content, wherein the content comprises links for websites or information that is fetched from the websites;

a portal managing server connected through a network for managing the portal site data, user information provided from the portal site data providing device, identification data of the user stored in the portable terminal memory medium, and identification data of the user registered in a portal managing database of the portal managing server; and

a contents server for distributing contents selected by the user by building the portal website corresponding to the URL, wherein the contents selected by the user and added to the portal website can include both contents requiring a charge to be paid to the data writing apparatus in order to be added to the portal website and contents that are free to add, and wherein by associated operation of the portal site data providing device and the portable managing server, the data writing apparatus writes the URL of the portal site to the portable terminal memory medium when the identification data of the user stored in the portable terminal memory medium of the portable terminal is registered in the portal managing server as a user registration data, wherein the data writing apparatus removably receives the portable terminal memory for writing, and permits a customized portal site to be accessed on the user'"'"'s portable terminal when the portable terminal reads the portable terminal memory medium.

2. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory medium according to claim 1, the portal site data providing device comprising:

a data reading/writing device having a function of reading out data stored in a memory medium of a portable terminal and a function of writing, to the memory medium, an applicable data which is required for the portable terminal; and

a data collation device for collating an identification data peculiar to a user of the portable terminal, which is read out from the memory medium by the data reading/writing device, with a user registration data which is registered in advance, and for outputting a writing command to the data reading/writing device only when the data are consistent, wherein

the data reading/writing device writes the applicable data to the memory medium on condition that there is an input of the writing command.

3. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 2, further comprising:

an input device for inputting writing data specifying information for specifying contents of the applicable data; and

a writing data specifying information receiving device for receiving the writing data specifying information requested by a user, which is inputted from the input device, wherein

the data reading/writing device writes the applicable data which corresponds to the writing data specifying information onto the memory medium according to the writing command.

4. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 3, wherein the writing data specifying information is a communication fee data charged for connecting a portable terminal to a network.

5. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 3, wherein the writing data specifying information is portal specifying information for specifying contents of a portal site which is displayed when connecting to a network through a portable terminal.

6. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 2, wherein:

the portable terminal is a portable telephone;

the identification data peculiar to the user is an identification data which is allotted to a user-registered portable telephone by each user; and

the data collation device collates the identification data read out from the memory medium with a user registration data held by a communication carrier of the portable telephone.

7. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 6, wherein the portable terminal is a GSM-type portable telephone and the memory medium is an SIM card.

8. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 2, wherein:

the memory medium is a contact medium, which is removably mounted to the portable terminal and is removed from the portable terminal to be inserted to the data reading/writing device; and

the data reading/writing device performs data reading/writing processing to the memory medium by being in contact with the memory medium.

9. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 2, wherein:

the memory medium is a noncontact medium, which is mounted to the portable terminal and reading/writing of data is performed without a contact; and

the data reading/writing device performs data reading/writing processing to the memory medium in a noncontact state.

10. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 9, wherein the noncontact memory medium is an RFID tag.

11. The data writing apparatus for a portable terminal memory according to claim 2, wherein:

the memory medium uses both a contact medium which is removed form the portable terminal to be inserted to the data reading/writing device and a noncontact medium which is mounted to the portable terminal for performing reading/writing of data without a contact; and

the data reading/writing device has a function of performing reading/writing of a data to the memory medium by being in contact with the memory medium and a function of copying the data which is to be read/written from/to the noncontact memory medium.

12. The data writing system of claim 1, wherein the portal site data providing device comprises:

a display functioning as a touch panel from which a user can select contents; and

a reader/writer for reading/writing data, including selected contents, from/to a storage region of the portable terminal memory medium.