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

• US 9,288,253 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc, Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc
• Inventors: Tobita, Naoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Whipple, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US13/861,960
• Publication Number:
  US 20130226989A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 (integrated circuit) 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 configured to read out information stored in an external device; and

a communication unit configured to download an agent via a network, wherein the agent is provided as software operating the IC chip as a reader, wherein the communication unit is configured to download a role via the network using the agent, and the role is provided as data in which at least part of a processing of the reader is performed by the agent.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the role has an available period.

3. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit is configured to acquire an access information to download the role.

4. The communication device according to claim 3, wherein the access information has an available period.

5. The communication device according to claim 3, wherein the access information includes parameters for determining whether said communication device is allowed to download the role.

6. The communication device according to claim 3, wherein the communication unit is configured to transmit a request for acquiring a role-download activation page based on the access information,

based on information included in the request for acquiring the role-download activation page, a GUI screen is displayed based on display data of the role-download activation page when the communication device is allowed to download the role, and

the agent is activated to allow the communication unit to download the role in response to a link in the GUI screen being operated.

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

a display; and

an input unit,

wherein the communication unit is configured to download a selected role by selecting the input unit among a plurality of roles displayed on the display.

8. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the IC chip is configured to operate as a reader/writer that performs reading and writing of information stored in another IC chip placed in the external communication device.

9. 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:

cause an IC chip to read out information stored in an external device;

download an agent via the network, where the agent is provided as a-software operating the IC chip as a reader; and

download a role via the network using the agent, and the role is provided as data in which at least part of a processing of the reader is performed by the agent.

10. A communication device, comprising:

an IC chip configured to read out information stored in an external device;

an agent being provided as software operating the IC chip as a reader; and

a communication unit configured to download a role via the network using the agent, and the role is provided as data in which at least part of a processing of the reader is performed by the agent.

11. An information processing device, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate, via a network, with a communication device having an IC chip configured to read out information stored in an external device,

wherein the communication unit transmits display data of a role-download activation page to the communication device in response to a request for acquiring the role-download activation page being transmitted through the network from the communication device, and

wherein the communication unit transmits the role to the communication device via the network in response to receiving an access from the communication device based on a link in the role-download activation page, and the role is provided as data in which at least part of a processing of the reader is performed.