Storing apparatus and telecommunications apparatus

• US 7,894,808 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2004
• Issued: 02/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakayama, Takehiro, Takeshita, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wendell; Andrew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran; Paul P
• Application Number:
  US10/989,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20050136968A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,288 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/61, 379/63, 379/93, 379/96, 379/98, 340/825.22, 340/825.44, 340/825.54, 455/66, 455/68, 455/69, 455/70, 455/88, 455/89, 455/90.3, 455/127, 455/186, 455/411, 455/414.1, 455/418, 455/419, 455/420, 455/423, 455/67.11, 455/550.1, 455/757.1, 455/410, 455/412.1, 455/415, 455/416, 455/417, 455/422.1, 455/426.1, 455/435.2, 455/456.1, 455/466, 455/557, 455/575.1, 455/2.01, 455/41.2, 455/404.1, 455/414.2, 455/509, 455/519, 455/524, 455/550, 455/558, 455/566, 455/574, 455/12.1, 455/41.1, 370/311, 370/315, 370/328, 370/331, 370/338, 370/349, 370/373, 370/401, 370/469, 370/329, 370/260, 370/312, 370/352, 370/354, 370/392, 370/466, 713/166, 713/189, 713/2, 713/151, 713/170, 713/171, 713/175, 713/176, 713/186, 713/187, 717168-178, 705/64, 709/206, 709/216, 709/220, 709/225, 714/758
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1433 during software upgrading
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/563 Software download or update
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading

Abstract

A secret information storing unit stores a common key which is authenticated between the data storing apparatus and a telecommunications apparatus. A data communication unit receives data from the telecommunications apparatus. The data includes an update of a first data item which is downloaded by the telecommunications apparatus from an information provider via a wireless network and encrypted using the common key. A data storage stores the encrypted update of the first data item received at the data communication unit, and further detaches from the data storing apparatus and independently connects directly to the telecommunications apparatus. The data communication unit sends the encrypted update of the first data item stored in the data storage to the telecommunications apparatus in response to a request from the telecommunications apparatus.

Claims

1. A data storing apparatus connectable to a telecommunication apparatus for supplying direct current power to the telecommunication apparatus, comprising:

a power source unit that converts an alternating current into a direct current;

a powering unit configured to supply the direct current power to the telecommunications apparatus connected to the data storing apparatus;

a secret information storing unit configured to store a common key used for authenticating data communicating between the data storing apparatus and the telecommunications apparatus via a data communication unit of the data storing apparatus;

the said data communication unit configured to receive the data from the telecommunications apparatus, which receives the data from an information provider via a wireless network in response to a request from the telecommunications apparatus;

wherein the data including an update of a first data item which is downloaded and encrypted using the common key by the telecommunications apparatus;

wherein the download starts only when an authentication by valid pair sharing of the common key becomes successful; and

a data storage configured to store the encrypted update of the first data item received at the data storing apparatus, the data storage further configured to detach from the data storing apparatus and independently connect directly to the telecommunications apparatus, wherein

the data storing apparatus sends the encrypted update of the first data item stored in the data storage to the telecommunications apparatus in response to a request from the telecommunications apparatus.

2. The data storing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the secret information storing unit is tamper-resistant.

3. The data storing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a display configured to display information about the data, which is stored in the data storage.

4. The data storing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a capacitor configured to supply the direct current power to the powering unit, the data communication unit, and the data storage.

5. The data storing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data communication unit receives a copy of the first data item having been stored in the telecommunications apparatus when the first data item is updated in the telecommunications apparatus, and the data storage stores the copy of the first data item until the updating is completed in the telecommunications apparatus.

6. The data storing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the data communication unit transmits the copy of the first data item to the telecommunications apparatus when a second data item is required to boot the telecommunications apparatus.

7. The data storing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a recess to hold the telecommunications apparatus during a reception of the update of the first data item from the telecommunications apparatus.

8. The data storing apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when the telecommunications apparatus downloads the update of the first data item from the information provider via the wireless network, the data communication unit of the data storing apparatus is connected to the telecommunications apparatus via a physical connector and the power source unit of the data storing apparatus is connected to a plug outlet of a power supply.

9. The data storing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data storage is a memory card.

10. A telecommunications apparatus, comprising:

a memory configured to store a common key used for authenticating data communicating between an external data storing apparatus and the telecommunications apparatus;

a wireless communication unit configured to transmit a request for downloading an update of a data item from an information provider via a wireless network;

the download starts via a data communication unit of the telecommunications apparatus only when an authentication by valid pair sharing of the common key between the telecommunications apparatus and the data storing apparatus becomes successful;

a data communication unit of the external data storing apparatus receives the downloaded update from the said data communication unit of the telecommunications apparatus, which encrypts the downloaded update of the data item using the common key, and transmit the encrypted downloaded update of the data item to a data storage connected to the external data storing apparatus;

the data storage being configured to detach from the external data storing apparatus and independently connect directly to the telecommunications apparatus; and

a battery cell configured to be charged by the external data storing apparatus, wherein

the telecommunications apparatus requests the external data storing apparatus to send the encrypted downloaded update of the data item, decrypts the encrypted downloaded update of the data item using the common key, and stores the downloaded update of the data item in the memory.

11. The telecommunications apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

an integrity measuring unit configured to measure an integrity of the telecommunications apparatus, wherein the wireless communication unit transmits a measuring result of the integrity to the information provider via the wireless network.

12. A data transmission method, comprising:

charging a battery cell of a telecommunications apparatus by a power source from an external data storing apparatus;

storing a common key used for authenticating data communicating between the external data storing apparatus and the telecommunications apparatus;

downloading an update of a data item to the telecommunications apparatus from an information provider via a wireless network in response to a request from the telecommunications apparatus;

the downloading starts only when an authentication by valid pair sharing of the common key between the telecommunications apparatus and the data storing apparatus becomes successful;

encrypting the update of the data item using the common key;

storing the encrypted update of the data item in a data storage connected to the external data storing apparatus, connected to the telecommunications apparatus;

the data storage being configured to detach from the external data storing apparatus and independently connect directly to the telecommunications apparatus;

requesting the external data storing apparatus to send the stored encrypted update of the data item to the telecommunications apparatus when the storing of the update of the data item in the data storage of the data storing apparatus is finished; and

decrypting the encrypted update of the data item and storing the update of the data item in the telecommunications apparatus.