Portable wireless terminal and its security system

• US 8,208,897 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2007
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kaneko, Takashi, Tanaka, Tadaaki, Nagasaka, Masaaki, Kobayashi, Keita
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelin, Jean
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAYLOR, NATHAN SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US11/798,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20070281664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,868 Days
• Field of Search: 713150-158, 455410-411, 455418-420, 379/136
• US Class Current: 455/410
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/88 Detecting or preventing theft or loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 Arrangements for maintaining operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention relates to a portable wireless terminal, and in particular, a portable wireless terminal such as a cellular phone, etc., and its security system that can reliably prevent, by remote control, improper use of the portable wireless terminal by a third party when it is lost or stolen.

The portable wireless terminal that uploads backup data to a center by remote control from the center via a wireless network includes: a data access control section 1-1 that, in response to an instructions from the center, prohibits access to the backup data retained by a portable wireless terminal or deletes the backup data; an encryption section 1-5 that encrypts the backup data by using a public key notified from the center or a public key owned by the portable wireless terminal itself in response to instructions from the center; and a data transmission section 1-2 to 1-4 that transmits the backup data split into a plurality of data fragments on a plurality of communication paths to the center according to transmission priority of the backup data that is notified from the center or owned by the portable wireless terminal itself.

Claims

1. A security system for a portable wireless terminal comprising:

a portable wireless terminal; and

a server apparatus that remotely controls the portable wireless terminal to transmit data from the portable wireless terminal to the server apparatus via a wireless network and stores the transmitted data as backup data,

wherein the server apparatus comprises a table containing identification information of a communication terminal registered by an owner of the portable wireless terminal, authenticates the communication terminal accessing the server apparatus based on detection of a match with the identification information in the table and, in response to a request from the communication terminal authenticated successfully, controls the portable wireless terminal to transmit the data stored in the portable wireless terminal to the server apparatus, and the portable wireless terminal splits the data to be transmitted to the server apparatus into a plurality of data fragments and cyclically transmits the data fragments through a plurality of base transceiver stations to the server apparatus.

2. The security system according to claim 1, wherein the table further contains transmission priority information of the data to be transmitted,

the server apparatus notifies the portable wireless terminal of the transmission priority information and, according to the notified transmission priority information, the portable wireless terminal transmits the data stored in the portable wireless terminal to the server apparatus.

3. The security system according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of communication paths is implemented as a VPN.

4. The security system according to claim 1, wherein the server apparatus notifies the portable wireless terminal of a public key and,

the portable wireless terminal encrypts the data stored in the portable wireless terminal by the notified public key.

5. The security system according to claim 1, wherein, after the portable wireless terminal transmits the data stored in the portable wireless terminal to the server apparatus, the server apparatus instructs the portable wireless terminal to delete the data that has been transmitted.

6. The security system according to claim 1, wherein, before the portable wireless terminal transmits the data stored in the portable wireless terminal to the server apparatus, instructs the portable wireless terminal to perform a dial-lock process.

7. The security system according to claim 1, wherein the portable wireless terminal performs a wake-up process periodically at a predetermined time period to accept an instruction from the server apparatus to transmit the data stored in the portable wireless terminal to the server apparatus.

8. The portable wireless terminal according to claim 1, further including an encryption function section that implements each of the plurality of communication paths as a VPN.

9. A portable wireless terminal that transmits data to a server apparatus by remote control from the server apparatus via a wireless network, the portable wireless terminal comprising:

a data access control section that, in response to an instruction from the server apparatus, prohibits access to the data stored in said portable wireless terminal or deletes the data; and

an encryption function section that encrypts the data by using a public key notified from the server apparatus in response to the instruction from the server apparatus;

a data transmission function section that splits the encrypted data to be transmitted to the server apparatus into a plurality of data fragments and cyclically transmits the data fragments through a plurality of base transceiver stations to the server apparatus.

10. The portable wireless terminal according to claim 9, wherein the data transmission section transmits the data to the server apparatus according to transmission priority of the data that is notified from the server apparatus or stored in the portable wireless terminal itself.

11. The portable wireless terminal according to claim 9, wherein the data access control section performs a wake-up process periodically at a predetermined time period to accept control by the server apparatus.

12. A security method for a portable wireless terminal comprising:

receiving by a server apparatus a request to back up the portable wireless terminal from the other communication terminal;

authenticating by the server apparatus the communication terminal based on detection of a match with the identification information registered by the owner of the portable wireless terminal in a table stored in the server apparatus;

controlling by the server apparatus the portable wireless terminal to transmit the data stored in the portable wireless terminal to the server apparatus if the communication terminal is authenticated successfully;

splitting by the portable wireless terminal the data to be transmitted to the server apparatus into a plurality of data fragments; and

transmitting cyclically by the portable wireless terminal the data fragments through a plurality of base transmitter stations to the server apparatus.