Telephone network subscriber identification card and method of controlling an electronic device adapted to interact with such a card

• US 9,176,750 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Issued: 11/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IDEMIA France (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oberthur Technologies SA
• Inventors: Denis, Sylvestre
• Primary Examiner(s): FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A
• Application Number:
  US12/609,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20100113094A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,195 Days
• Field of Search: 455/444
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A method of controlling an electronic device adapted to interact with a telephone network subscriber identification card includes the following steps:

• • detecting the start of interaction between the card and the device;
  • transferring from the card to the device a program that can be executed by a microprocessor of the device subject to the condition at least of the detection;
  • execution of the transferred program by the microprocessor.

Claims

1. A telephone network subscriber identification card, comprising:

a processing device;

a memory device;

an interface that, upon connection with an electronic device enables electronic communication with said electronic device;

a non-volatile data storage device, having stored thereon program code executable by the processing device and a program that is executable by a microprocessor of the electronic device; and

a movement sensor,

wherein said program code, upon execution by the processing device, causes the interface, upon enablement of electronic communication with said electronic device, to transmit to the electronic device a copy of the program executable by the microprocessor of the electronic device, and

wherein the program executable by the microprocessor of the electronic device comprises instructions for causing the microprocessor of the electronic device to process data generated and transmitted by the movement sensor located on the card.

2. The identification card according to claim 1, wherein the transmission of the copy of the program executable by the microprocessor of the electronic device is subject to an additional condition of an indication of the absence of a prior transmission of the copy of the program executable by the microprocessor of the electronic device.

3. The identification card according to claim 1, wherein the program executable by the microprocessor of the electronic device is adapted to execute a step of installing a data processing program in the electronic device.

4. The identification card according to claim 2, wherein the program executable by the microprocessor of the electronic device is adapted to execute a step of installing a data processing program in the electronic device.

5. The identification card according to claim 1, wherein the movement sensor is an accelerometer.

6. The identification card according to claim 1, wherein the movement sensor is an gyroscope.

7. A telephone network subscriber identification card comprising:

a processing device;

a memory device;

an interface that, upon connection with an electronic device enables electronic communication with said electronic device;

a non-volatile data storage device, having stored thereon program code executable by the processing device and a program that is executable by a microprocessor of the electronic device; and

a position sensor,

wherein said program code, upon execution by the processing device, causes the interface, upon enablement of electronic communication with said electronic device, to transmit to the electronic device a copy of the program executable by the microprocessor of the electronic device, and

wherein the program executable by the microprocessor of the electronic device comprises instructions for causing the microprocessor of the electronic device to process data generated and transmitted by the position sensor located on the card.