Method and device for managing application data in an NFC system

• US 8,401,474 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2010
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verimatrix Incorporated (Verimatrix SA)
• Original Assignee: Inside Secure SA
• Inventors: Charrat, Bruno
• Primary Examiner(s): WEST, LEWIS G
• Application Number:
  US12/732,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20100178868A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,089 Days
• Field of Search: 455/39, 455/41.1, 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 235/487, 235/492, 235/493, 235/435, 235/449, 235/451, 235/375, 340/10.1
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A method for managing application data in an NFC system embedded or to be embedded in a portable object and including a contactless data sending/receiving interface, one or more host processors, and a data routing or transferring processor is described. The method includes generating internal application data in response to the occurrence of an internal event within the NFC system, and supplying the internal application data to a host processor of the NFC system.

Claims

1. A method for managing application data in an NFC system embedded or to be embedded in a portable object and including a contactless data sending/receiving interface, one or more host processors, and a data routing or transferring processor to perform actions of routing or transferring of application data between the contactless data sending/receiving interface and the one or more host processors, the method comprising:

generating internal application data in response to an occurrence of an internal event within the NFC system, wherein the internal application data is generated in a predetermined format to simulate data read in or supplied by an external component via a contactless communication channel; and

supplying the internal application data to one of the one or more host processors of the NFC system.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the internal application data is generated to form a command executable by the host processor to which the internal application data is supplied.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a clock signal;

generating an internal event from the clock signal; and

in response to the occurrence of the internal event, supplying the internal application data to one of the one or more host processors of the NFC system.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

configuring a first host processor of the NFC system to emit an internal request serving as an internal event; and

in response to the emission of the request, supplying the internal application data to a second host processor of the NFC system.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising sending the internal application data to an external server, by the host processor to which the internal application data was supplied.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the internal application data includes or forms a security key.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the internal application data simulates an RFID command.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising generating the internal application data using an encryption function.

9. A device for managing application data integrated or to be integrated in a portable object, and provided to form with one or more host processors a communication system of Near Field Communication (NFC) type embedded in the portable object, the device comprising:

a contactless data sending/receiving interface of NFC type; and

a data routing or transferring processor to perform routing or transferring of application data between the contactless data sending/receiving interface and the one or more host processors, the data routing or transferring processor being configured to;

(a) generate, within the NFC system, internal application data in response to an occurrence of an internal event within the NFC system, and

(b) supply the internal application data to one of the one or more host processors of the NFC system,

wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to generate the internal application data in a predetermined format to simulate data read in or supplied by an external component via a contactless communication channel.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to generate internal application data forming a command executable by the host processor to which the internal application data is supplied.

11. The device according to claim 9, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to:

(c) receive a clock signal,

(d) generate an internal event from the clock signal, and

(e) in response to the occurrence of the internal event, supply the internal application data to one of the one or more host processors of the NFC system.

12. The device according to claim 9, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to:

(c) receive an internal request serving as an internal event from a first host processor of the NFC system, and

(d) in response to the reception of the request, supply the internal application data to a second host processor of the NFC system.

13. The device according to claim 9, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to generate internal application data including or forming a security key.

14. The device according to claim 9, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to generate internal application data that simulates an RFID command.

15. The device according to claim 9, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to generate internal application data using an encryption function.

16. An NFC system comprising a device for managing application data according to claim 9 and at least one host processor connected to the device.

17. An electronic portable object comprising an NFC system according to claim 16.

18. A method for managing application data in an NFC system embedded or to be embedded in a portable object and including a contactless data sending/receiving interface, one or more host processors, and a data routing or transferring processor to perform actions of routing or transferring of application data between the contactless data sending/receiving interface and the one or more host processors, the method comprising:

generating internal application data in response to an occurrence of an internal event within the NFC system; and

supplying the internal application data to one of the one or more host processors of the NFC system,

wherein the internal application data is generated to form a command executable by the host processor to which the internal application data is supplied.