Method and device for managing application data in an NFC system in response to contactless data sending or receiving

• US 8,412,099 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2010
• Issued: 04/02/2013
• 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:
  US12/732,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20100178867A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 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 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 complementary application data in response to the routing or transferring of external application data, and supplying the complementary 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 routing or transferring of application data between the contactless data sending/receiving interface and the one or more host processors, the method comprising:

generating complementary application data in response to the routing or transferring, within the NFC system, of external application data received or sent via the contactless data sending/receiving interface; and

supplying the complementary application data to one of the one or more processors of the NFC system, wherein the complementary application data is generated in a predetermined format to simulate data read in or supplied by an external component via a contactless communication channel.

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

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising concatenating or mixing the complementary application data and the external application data before supplying the complementary application data and the external application data to a host processor of the NFC system.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the complementary application data is concatenated or mixed with external application data to form a command executable by the host processor to which the complementary application data and the external application data are supplied.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising formatting, in a predetermined format, the result of the concatenation or mix of the complementary application data and the external application data, to simulate data read in or supplied by an external component via a contactless communication channel.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein the executable command is provided to cause the host processor to which the command is supplied to at least one of:

(a) display the external application data in a predetermined manner that improves or embellishes the display or the presentation of the external application data, or

(b) connect to an external server to download data to improve or embellish the display or the presentation of external application data.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the external application data is supplied to a first host processor and the complementary application data is supplied to a second host processor, the method further comprising including, in the complementary application data, spy data relating to the external application data or to a transaction in the frame of which the external application data is exchanged.

8. 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 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 configured 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 complementary application data in response to the routing or transferring, within the NFC system, of external application data received or emitted via the contactless data sending/receiving interface, and

(b) supply the complementary 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 complementary application data in a predetermined format to simulate data read in or supplied by an external component via a contactless communication channel.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to:

(c) generate complementary application data forming a command executable by the host processor to which the complementary application data is supplied.

10. The device according to claim 8, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to concatenate or mix the complementary application data and the external application data before supplying the complementary application data and the external application data to the one of the one or more host processors of the NFC system.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to concatenate or mix the complementary application data with external application data to form a command executable by the host processor to which the complementary application data and the external application data are supplied.

12. The device according to claim 10, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is configured to put into a predetermined format the result of the concatenation or the mix of the complementary application data and external application data, to simulate data read in or supplied to an external component via a contactless communication channel.

13. The device according to claim 9, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to form an executable command causing the host processor to which the command is supplied to at least one of

(i) display the external application data in a predetermined manner that improves or embellishes the display or the presentation of the external application data, or

(ii) connect to an external server to download data to improve or to embellish the display or the presentation of the external application data.

14. The device according to claim 8, wherein the data routing or transferring processor is further configured to include, in the complementary application data, spy data relating to the external application data or a transaction in the frame of which the external application data is exchanged.

15. An NFC system comprising a device for managing application data according to claim 8 and one or more host processors connected to the device.

16. An electronic portable object comprising an NFC system according to claim 15.

17. 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 routing or transferring of application data between the contactless data sending/receiving interface and the one or more host processors, the method comprising:

generating complementary application data in response to the routing or transferring, within the NFC system, of external application data received or sent via the contactless data sending/receiving interface; and

supplying the complementary application data to one of the one or more processors of the NFC system, wherein the complementary application data is generated to form a command executable by the host processor to which the complementary application data is supplied.