Method and devices for installing and retrieving linked MIFARE applications

• US 8,799,574 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2009
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NXP B.V. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Original Assignee: NXP B.V. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Inventors: Corda, Alexandre
• Primary Examiner(s): Elmore, Reba I
• Application Number:
  US12/921,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20110072203A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,975 Days
• Field of Search: 711/115, 711/152, 711/173, 711/217
• US Class Current: 711/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/06 Addressing a physical block of locations, e.g. base addressing, module addressing, memory dedication G06F12/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0646 Configuration or reconfiguration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/12 using hardware independent of the central processor, e.g. channel or peripheral processor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0628 making use of a particular technique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0631 by allocating resources to storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/045 using payment protocols involving tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/352 Contactless payments by cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3574 Multiple applications on card
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3576 Multiple memory zones on card
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

A method for installing linked MIFARE applications (TK1-A, TK1-B, TK1-C) in a MIFARE memory (MM) being configured as a MIFARE Classic card or an emulated MIFARE Classic memory comprises storing the first linked MIFARE application (TK1-A) in a first free sector of the MIFARE memory, storing the second linked MIFARE application (TK1-B) in a second free sector of the MIFARE memory and writing link information (LK) indicating this second sector in a link information memory location of the first sector where first linked MIFARE application (TK1-A) has been stored, and repeating the steps of storing linked MIFARE applications and writing link information (LK) until the last linked MIFARE application (TK1-C) has been stored.

Claims

1. A method for installing linked MIFARE applications in a MIFARE memory being configured as a MIFARE Classic card or an emulated MIFARE Classic memory, the method comprising storing the first linked MIFARE application in a first free sector of the MIFARE memory, storing the second linked MIFARE application in a second free sector of the MIFARE memory and writing link information indicating this second sector in a link information memory location of the first sector where first linked MIFARE application has been stored, and repeating the steps of storing linked MIFARE applications and writing link information until the last linked MIFARE application has been stored.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in a link information memory location of the sector of the MIFARE memory where the last linked MIFARE application has been stored link information is written indicating the sector where the first linked MIFARE application has been stored.

3. A computer program product being directly loadable into the memory of a mobile communication device that comprises a MIFARE memory being configured as a MIFARE Classic card or an emulated MIFARE Classic memory, wherein the computer program product comprises software code portions for performing—

when running on the mobile communication device—

the steps of the method as claimed in claim 1.

4. A computer program product as claimed in claim 3, wherein the computer program product is stored on a computer readable medium or is downloadable from a remote server via a communication network.

5. A mobile communication device with an arithmetic-logic unit and a memory, wherein the mobile communication device is adapted to process the computer program product as claimed in claim 3.

6. The mobile communication device as claimed in claim 5, being configured as a mobile phone, having NFC capabilities.

7. A MIFARE memory device being configured as a MIFARE Classic card or an emulated MIFARE Classic memory, comprising in each of its sectors link information memory locations dedicated to being written with link information that indicates another sector where a linked MIFARE application is installed.

8. A trusted service manager being configured to transmit linked MIFARE applications and link information values via an Over-The-Air interface to a mobile communication device that is equipped with a MIFARE memory being configured as a MIFARE Classic card or an emulated MIFARE Classic memory, wherein the trusted service manager is adapted to instruct the mobile communication device on basis of the transmitted linked MIFARE applications and link information values to store the first linked MIFARE application in a first free sector of the MIFARE memory, to store the second linked MIFARE application in a second free sector of the MIFARE memory and to write link information indicating this second sector in a link information memory location of the sector where first linked MIFARE application has been stored, and to repeat the steps of storing linked MIFARE applications and writing link information until the last linked MIFARE application has been stored.

9. A reader device for retrieving MIFARE applications from a MIFARE memory that is configured as a MIFARE Classic card or an emulated MIFARE Classic memory, wherein the reader is configured to read a first MIFARE application from a first sector of the MIFARE memory, which first sector is optionally a predefined sector, reading link information from the same sector, if the link information points to another sector of the MIFARE memory reading the MIFARE application being stored in this another sector, and repeating the steps of reading MIFARE applications and link information until the link information points to an empty or invalid sector or contains a stop instruction or points to a sector that has already been read.