Management server, data processing method, and program

• US 9,642,010 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2015
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: FeliCa Networks, Inc (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Keitarou, Oki, Junichi, Motodate, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nimesh
• Application Number:
  US14/636,492
• Publication Number:
  US 20150281965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3816 Mechanical arrangements for accommodating identification devices, e.g. cards or chips; with connectors for programming identification devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/45 using multiple identity modules
• 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

Abstract

There is provided a management server including a communication unit configured to communicate with a communication terminal that utilizes a service, and a data processing unit. The data processing unit is configured to receive, from the communication terminal, system configuration information including a memory system configuration of the communication terminal, determine, in accordance with the system configuration information, a memory area in the communication terminal where service data for the communication terminal to utilize the service is recorded or a memory area in the communication terminal from which the service data is read, generate a command to execute a process to access the memory area or service data to be recorded in the memory area, and transmit the command or the service data to the communication terminal via the communication unit.

Claims

1. A management server comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with a communication terminal that utilizes a service; and

a data processing unit,

wherein the data processing unit is configured to

receive, from the communication terminal, system configuration information including a memory system configuration of the communication terminal,

determine, in accordance with the system configuration information, a memory area in the communication terminal where service data for utilizing the service can be recorded or a memory area in the communication terminal from which the service data can be read,

generate a command in accordance with the system configuration information to execute a process to access the memory area where the service data is recorded or service data in accordance with the system configuration information to be recorded in the memory area, and

transmit the command or the service data, in accordance with the system configuration information, to the communication terminal via the communication unit to be executed,

wherein the memory system configuration is a system configuration of a secure element of embedded type and/or a secure element of removable type,

wherein the data processing unit has priority order information indicating a memory area processing on which takes precedence when the communication terminal has a plurality of process target memory areas, and is configured to make the determination based on the system configuration information and the priority order information, and

wherein the communication unit and the data processing unit are each implemented via at least one processor.

2. The management server according to claim 1, wherein

the communication unit further communicates with a service providing server related to the service, and

the data processing unit acquires the priority order information from the service providing server via the communication unit.

3. The management server according to claim 1, wherein

the priority order information indicates a priority order of an access process to the secure element of embedded type and/or the secure element of removable type.

4. The management server according to claim 3, wherein the priority order information indicates that the access process is executed on both secure elements when the communication terminal has both the secure element of embedded type and the secure element of removable type.

5. The management server according to claim 1, wherein

the memory system configuration is a system configuration including presence or absence of a secure element, and

the data processing unit creates service data to be recorded in an insecure memory area when the communication terminal has no secure element, and transmits the service data to the communication terminal via the communication unit.

6. The management server according to claim 5, wherein the service data to be recorded in the insecure memory area is a two-dimensional barcode.

7. The management server according to claim 1, wherein

the communication unit is further configured to communicate with the service providing server related to the service, and

the data processing unit is configured to acquire from the service providing server, via the communication unit, request mode information which indicates content of a process that the communication terminal requests of the service providing server, and generate the command or the service data based on the request mode information and the system configuration information.

8. A data processing method, the method being executed via at least one processor, and comprising:

acquiring system configuration information including a memory system configuration of a communication terminal and transmitting the system configuration information to a management server;

receiving a command to execute a process to access a memory area in the communication terminal based on the system configuration information; and

causing the command, in accordance with the system configuration information, to be executed on the memory area in the communication terminal,

wherein the memory system configuration is a system configuration of a secure element of embedded type and/or a secure element of removable type, and

wherein the system configuration information has priority order information indicating a memory area processing on which takes precedence when the communication terminal has a plurality of process target memory areas, and is configured to make the determination based on the system configuration information and the priority order information.

9. The data processing method according to claim 8, wherein the memory system configuration is a system configuration of a secure element of embedded type and a secure element of removable type.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

a communication terminal,

wherein the communication terminal has

a communication unit,

a storage unit configured to store data received through the communication unit, and

a data processing unit configured to execute a data record process or a data read process on the storage unit,

wherein the program causes the data processing unit to

acquire system configuration information of the communication terminal including a memory system configuration of a secure memory included as the storage unit,

transmit the system configuration information to outside of the communication terminal via the communication unit, and

execute a command, accordance with the system configuration information, received via the communication unit, to execute a process to access the secure memory from the outside of the communication terminal,

wherein the memory system configuration is a system configuration of a secure element of embedded type and/or a secure element of removable type, and

wherein the data processing unit has priority order information indicating a memory area processing on which takes precedence when the communication terminal has a plurality of process target memory areas, and is configured to make the determination based on the system configuration information and the priority order information.

11. The program according to claim 10, wherein the memory system configuration is a system configuration of a secure element of embedded type and a secure element of removable type.