Communication device, information processing device, program, and reader/writer providing system

• US 8,423,601 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2010
• Issued: 04/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tobita, Naoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Whipple, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US12/729,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20100257224A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,120 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/217
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A communication device includes an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip. Also, the communication device downloads an agent from an information processing device connected to the network. Here, the agent is provided as application software operating the IC chip as a reader/writer. Furthermore, the communication device downloads a role from the information device connected to the network using the agent downloaded therefrom, where the role is provided as script data in which part of the contents of processing of the reader/writer performed by the agent.

Claims

1. A communication device, comprising:

an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip;

means for downloading an agent from an information processing device via a network, where said agent is provided as an application software operating said IC chip as a reader/writer; and

means for downloading a role from said information processing device via the network using said agent downloaded therefrom, where said role is provided as script data in which at least part of a processing of said reader/writer is performed by said agent.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for acquiring URL provided for accessing said information processing device to download said role, wherein

said URL includes parameters described therein and used in processing of determining whether said information processing device allows said communication device to download said role.

3. The communication device according to claim 2, further comprising:

means for transmitting a request for acquiring a role-download activation page to said information processing device based on said URL, wherein

on the basis of information included in said request for acquiring said role-download activation page, a GUI screen is displaced based on display data of said role-download activation page transmitted from said information processing device when said information processing device allows said communication device to download said role, and

said agent is activated to allow said means for downloading said role to download said role when a link in said GUI screen is operated.

4. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

said means for downloading said role downloads a plurality of roles, a role selected by a user from said plurality of roles is activated together with the activation of said agent to allow said IC chip to perform processing of said reader/writer.

5. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for activating said agent, when said agent is activated to allow said IC chip to perform said processing of said reader/writer, transmitting predetermined check information to said information processing device connected to said network and activating said agent based on a check result transmitted from said information processing device; and

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means for activating said agent, when said role is activated to allow said IC chip to perform said processing of said reader/writer, transmitting predetermined check information to said information processing device connected to said network and activating said role based on a check result transmitted from said information processing device.

6. The communication device according to claim 5, wherein

said predetermined check information to be transmitted to said information processing device by said means for activating said agent includes an identification number particular to said IC chip.

7. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

said IC chip is functioned as a reader/writer that performs reading or writing of information stored in another IC chip placed in another communication device.

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for allowing an apparatus connected to a network to function as a communication device, the computer program causing the apparatus to:

store information in a predetermined area of an IC chip and cause the IC chip to function as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip;

download an agent from an information processing device via the network, where said agent is provided as an application software operating said IC chip as a reader/writer; and

download a role from said information processing device via the network by activating said agent downloaded therefrom, where said role is provided as script data in which at least part of a processing of said reader/writer is performed by said agent.

9. An information processing device, comprising:

means for transmitting a role-download activation page, which transmits, via a network, display data of said role-download activation page to a communication device on the basis of a request for acquiring said role-download activation page transmitted through the network from said communication device, where said communication device has an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip and operates said IC chip as said reader/writer based on a role provided as script data in which at least part of a processing of said reader/writer is described; and

means for transmitting said role to said communication device via the network when receiving an access from said communication device based on a link in said role-download activation page.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

said request for acquiring said role-download activation page is transmitted based on URL previously acquired by said communication device to download said role, and

said means for transmitting said role-download activation page generates a download key and transmits said display data of said role-download activation page including said download key when said communication device is allowed to download said role based on the description of a parameter in said URL.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

said means for transmitting said role, when receiving an access from said communication device based on a link in said role-download activation page, transmits said role to said communication device on condition that it is determined that said communication device is allowed to download said role based on predetermined check information transmitted from said communication device.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

said predetermined check information transmitted from said communication device includes:

agent identification information provided as an application software that allows said IC chip to be functioned as a reader/writer in said communication device; and

said download key.

13. The communication device according to claim 9, further comprising:

means for transmitting an agent check result, when activating said agent to allow said IC chip to perform processing of said reader/writer by said IC chip, generating a check result that represents whether said communication device is allowed to activate said agent and transmits said check result to said communication device based on predetermined check information transmitted from said communication device; and

means for transmitting a role check result, when activating said role to allow said IC chip to perform processing of said reader/writer by said IC chip, generating a check result that represents whether said communication device is allowed to activate said role and transmits said check result to said communication device based on predetermined check information transmitted from said communication device.

14. The communication device according to claim 13, further comprising:

said means for transmitting said agent check result determines whether said communication device is allowed to activate said agent based on said identification number peculiar to said IC chip in said predetermined check information.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for allowing an apparatus connected to a network to function as an information processing device, the computer program causing the apparatus to:

transmit, via the network, display data of a role-download activation page to a communication device on the basis of a request for acquiring said role-download activation page transmitted through the network from said communication device, where said communication device has an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip and operates said IC chip as said reader/writer based on a role provided as script data in which at least part of a processing of said reader/writer is described; and

transmit, via the network, said role to said communication device when receiving an access from said communication device based on a link in said role-download activation page.

16. A reader/writer providing system, comprising:

a communication device including

an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip,

means for downloading an agent from an information processing device via a network, where said agent is provided as an application software operating said IC chip as a reader/writer, and

means for downloading a role from said information processing device via the network using said agent downloaded therefrom, where said role is provided as script data in which at least part of a processing of said reader/writer is performed by said agent; and

said information processing device including

means for transmitting a role-download activation page, which transmits, via the network, display data of said role-download activation page to a communication device on the basis of a request for acquiring said role-download activation page transmitted through the network from said communication device, and

means for transmitting said role to said communication device via the network when receiving an access from said communication device based on a link in said role-download activation page.

17. A communication device, comprising:

an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip;

a unit for downloading an agent from an information processing device via a network, where said agent is provided as an application software operating said IC chip as a reader/writer; and

a unit for downloading a role from said information processing device via the network using said agent downloaded therefrom, where said role is provided as script data in which at least part of a processing of said reader/writer is performed by said agent.

18. An information processing device, comprising:

a unit for transmitting a role-download activation page, which transmits, via a network, display data of said role-download activation page to a communication device on the basis of a request for acquiring said role-download activation page transmitted through the network from said communication device, where said communication device has an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip and operates said IC chip as said reader/writer based on a role provided as script data in which at least part of a processing of said reader/writer is described; and

a unit for transmitting said role to said communication device via the network when receiving an access from said communication device based on a link in said role-download activation page.

19. A reader/writer providing system, comprising:

a communication device including

an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip,

a unit for downloading an agent from an information processing device via a network, where said agent is provided as an application software operating said IC chip as a reader/writer, and

a unit for downloading a role from said information processing device via the network using said agent downloaded therefrom, where said role is provided as script data in which at least part of a processing of said reader/writer is performed by said agent; and

said information processing device including

a unit for transmitting a role-download activation page, which transmits, via the network, display data of said role-download activation page to a communication device on the basis of a request for acquiring said role-download activation page transmitted through the network from said communication device, and

a unit for transmitting said role to said communication device via the network when receiving an access from said communication device based on a link in said role-download activation page.