Security Device, Terminal Device, Gate Device, and Device

• US 20080289018A1
• Filed: 01/28/2005
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawaguchi, Kyoko
• Granted Patent: US 7,810,146 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/70 Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a component leads to protection of the entire computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/88 Detecting or preventing theft or loss
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/20 involving the use of a pass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

There are provided a secure device, a gate device, and a device providing a secure device such as an IC card capable of limiting an area where the card application function and the device function are realized. The secure device (20) includes: an authentication application (24) for performing authentication of a gate device (40); a terminal application/setting instruction (26) and a terminal application (27) installed in a mobile telephone (10) as a terminal; and a CPU (23) as control means for installing the terminal application specified by the gate device (40) in the mobile telephone (10) when authentication application (24) has successfully authenticated the gate device (40). The secure device (20) is held over the gate device (40) and only in the area where normally passed, the terminal application/setting instruction (26) and the terminal application (27) are installed in the mobile telephone (10). Since the gate application (43) of the gate device (40) specifies an application which functions in a particular area, a user need not perform registration operation. Moreover, there is no need of mounting a GPS receiver or the like onto the terminal.

Claims

1. A secure device comprising:

an authentication section that performs authentication processing for a gate equipment;

a terminal application installed at a terminal; and

a control section that installs the terminal application designated by the gate equipment on the terminal in the event that authentication between the authentication section and the gate equipment is successful.

2. The secure device according to claim 1, wherein the secure device holds correspondence information defining a correspondence relationship of the gate equipment and the terminal application, and the control section installs the terminal application at the terminal only in the event that the relationship of the terminal application designated by the gate equipment and the gate equipment matches with the correspondence information.

3. The secure device according to claim 1, wherein the control section provides the terminal application installed at or deleted from the terminal according to the communication scheme with the gate equipment.

4. The secure device of claim 1, further comprising a terminal setting management section that determines whether or not a setting to valid for the previous time with the terminal has been correctly invalidated while the authentication section is carrying out authentication with the gate equipment, and permitting authentication with the gate equipment only in the event of correct invalidation.

5. A secure device comprising:

an authentication section that performs authentication processing for gate equipment;

a card application; and

a control section that permits the card application designated by the gate equipment to access a terminal application of a terminal in the event of successful authentication of the authentication section with the gate equipment.

6. The secure device according to claim 5, wherein the authentication section holds a database recording a relationship between successfully authenticated gate equipment and the card application designated by the gate equipment, and the card application decides whether to permit or deny access based on information of the database when there is an access request from the terminal application.

7. The secure device according to claim 5, wherein the control section sets the card application to valid or invalid according to the communication scheme with the gate equipment.

8. A secure device comprising:

an authentication section that carries out authentication processing with respect to a gate equipment and registers identification information for the successfully authenticated gate equipment; and

a card application sending the identification information for the gate equipment to an equipment carrying out a predetermined operation under the condition that the authentication section successfully performs authentication with the gate equipment in order to provide verification of the equipment, or verifying the identification information in place of the equipment.

9. The secure device according to claim 8, wherein the card application sends input user identification information to the equipment in order to provide verification of the equipment, or verifies the user identification information in place of the equipment.

10. A gate equipment comprising:

a communication section that communicates with a secure device or a terminal holding the secure device; and

a gate application carrying out authentication processing with the secure device via the communication section, and designating a terminal application to be installed at the terminal for the successfully authenticated secure device.

11. A gate equipment comprising:

a communication section that communicates with a secure device and a terminal holding the secure device; and

a gate application carrying out authentication processing with the secure device via the communication section, and designating a card application capable of being accessed by the terminal application of the terminal for the successfully authenticated secure device.

12. A terminal apparatus holding a secure device, and installing a terminal application designated by a gate equipment from the secure device successfully authenticated with the gate equipment.

13. The terminal apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising a terminal application suspension management section for, in the event that a new terminal application cannot be installed due to there being too little memory capacity at the time of receiving an installation request for the new terminal application from the security device, installing the new terminal application after suspending the held terminal application in the secure device, then deleting the installed new terminal application, and restoring the saved terminal application.

15. The terminal apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the secure device is installed in a detachable state.

16. The terminal apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the secure device is embedded in an integral manner.

14. A terminal apparatus holding a secure device, comprising a terminal application accessing a card application designated by a gate equipment in the card application held by the secure device successfully authenticated with the gate equipment.

17. An equipment acquiring identification information for a gate equipment from a secure device successfully authenticated with the gate equipment and carrying out a predetermined operation in the event that verification of the identification information is successful.

18. An equipment carrying out a predetermined operation in the event that information indicating successful verification of identification information of a gate equipment from a secure device successfully authenticated with the gate equipment.