Information processing device and information processing terminal

• US 7,600,228 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2004
• Issued: 10/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakata, Tsuyoshi, Nishikawa, Hiroshi, Takayama, Hisashi, Takekawa, Hiroshi, Ito, Hayashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dam; Tuan Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee; Marina
• Application Number:
  US10/890,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20050015275A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,910 Days
• Field of Search: 717/172, 717/178
• US Class Current: 717/178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/123 by using dedicated hardware, e.g. dongles, smart cards, cryptographic processors, global positioning systems [GPS] 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 20/3574 Multiple applications 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

With respect to a secure device 10 for executing a data storing operation and a data calculating operation under secrecy condition, a first application program 15 and a second application program 11 are retained. The program 15 causes an information processing terminal 30 mounted thereon this secure device 10 to execute a process operation by utilizing a resource of this information processing terminal 30. The program 11 causes the secure device 10 to execute such a process operation under secrecy condition in conjunction with the process operation of this information processing terminal 30. When this secure device 10 is mounted on the information processing terminal 30, this secure device 10 loads the program 15 to the information processing terminal 30 so as to install this loaded first application program therein. Then, a terminal application program required to execute a service is automatically installed to the information processing terminal 30.

Claims

1. An information processing device for responding to a request for a service issued from an information processing terminal selected be a user of said information processing terminal from a list of usable services, said information processing device comprising:

a processor;

a usable service judging unit for determining services that are usable with services issued from the information processing terminal for providing the list of usable services to the user;

a retaining unit for retaining both a first application program and a second application program; and

a transmission unit for transmitting said first application program to said information processing terminal in response to said request, wherein

said information processing terminal executing said first application program for use by said terminal for providing one of said usable services and for interacting with said second application program executing concurrently on said processor or said information processing device, said interacting in support of providing said one at said usable services to the user at said information processing terminal, wherein

said information processing device to be used by other information processing terminals for providing a different list of usable services.

2. The information processing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when said information processing device is mounted on said information processing terminal, said transmission unit transmits said first application program.

3. The information processing device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said transmission unit selects the first application program to be transmitted in response to a condition.

4. The information processing device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said transmission unit selects the first application program to be transmitted in response to said information processing terminal.

5. The information processing device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said transmission unit selects the first application program to be transmitted in response to a terminal profile acquired from said information processing terminal.

6. The information processing device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said transmission unit selects the first application program to be transmitted in response to machine sort information which is contained in said terminal profile.

7. The information processing device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said transmission unit selects the first application program to be transmitted in response to an empty storage capacity which is contained in said terminal profile.

8. The information processing device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said transmission unit selects the first application program to be transmitted in response to presence/absence of a license related to said first application program.

9. The information processing device as claimed in claim 8, wherein said transmission unit selects the first application program to be transmitted in response to an input of a license code related to said first application program.

10. The information processing device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said information processing device further includes providing means for selecting from a list of process operations provided on said information processing terminal, wherein said list indicates process operations which can be executed by using a resource or said information processing terminal, and wherein, when said information processing device is mounted on said information processing terminal, said transmission unit selects such a first application program used to execute a process operation selected from said list.

11. The information processing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said transmission unit transmits information as to an acquisition destination for acquiring a latest version of said first application program to said information processing terminal in combination with said first application program.

12. The information processing device as claimed in claim 8 or 9, further comprising:

conversion means for converting a protection format of the selected contents data based upon said terminal profile, wherein said transmission unit transmits the converted contents data.

13. The information processing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said retaining unit retains data which is used by said first application program, and wherein said transmission unit transmits the data which is used by the first application program in combination with said first application program.

14. The information processing device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

reception means for receiving contents data and a terminal profile from the information processing terminal;

conversion means for detecting a protection format of the received contents data based upon the terminal profile and converting the protection format into a predetermined protection format; and

storing means for storing thereinto the converted contents data.

15. An information processing system comprising:

A plurality of different information processing terminals each providing a different set usable services no a user; and

an information processing device which is adapted for interacting with said information processing terminals when said device is mounted on any one of said terminals, wherein

said information processing device includes;

a processor,

a usable service judging unit for determining a list of services that are usable with services issued from any one at said terminals mounted by said information processing device for providing the list of services to the user;

a retaining unit for retaining a plurality of first application programs, each one of which is for causing a respective one or said information processing terminals to execute a first process operation, and for retaining at least one second application program for causing said processor to execute a second process operation interacting with said first process operation executed on the terminal in mounted by said information processing device; and

a transmission unit for transmitting one of said first application program to said one of said terminals in response to a request for a service selected by the user from the list of services, said one of said first application programs for use by the terminal for providing the selected one of said services;

and wherein each one of said information processing terminals includes;

an interface for receiving requested service requests from a user;

a requesting unit for providing said service requests to said information processing device to acquire said one of said first application programs from said information processing device mounted by said terminal;

an acquisition unit for acquiring said one of said first application programs which is transmitted from said transmission unit in response to said request;

a storage unit for storing thereinto the acquired one of said first application programs;

a processor for executing said one of said first application programs for performing said first process operation;

wherein said selected one of said services is provided by said first process operation interacting concurrently with said second process operation.

16. The information processing system of claim 15, wherein said information processing device is adapted for inserting into/pulling out of said information processing terminal and wherein said information processing terminal interacts with said information processing device when said device is inserted into said terminal.

17. A secure processing device for responding to a request for a service selected from a list of usable services that can be issued from an information processing terminal, said secure processing device comprising:

a usable service judging unit for determining services that are usable with services issued from the information processing terminal for providing the list of usable services;

a retaining unit for retaining a plurality of application programs for causing said information processing terminal to execute a corresponding process operation interacting with said secure processing device, and an authentication data used in the interaction with said process operation executed on the information processing terminal;

a judgment unit for selecting at least one application program from said plurality of application programs based on a user request for a service of said information processing terminal;

a transmission unit for transmitting the selected at least one of said application programs to said information processing terminal in response to said request; and

an interaction unit for interacting with said process operation executing on the information processing terminal, wherein

said at least one application program executed by said information processing terminal while concurrently interacting with said interaction unit to perform the requested service for the user, and wherein

said secure processing device to be used by other information processing terminals for providing a different list of usable services.

18. An information processing system comprising:

an information processing terminal;

an IC card including a processor, a usable service judging unit, a retaining unit, and an interface for interfacing with said information processing terminal, said retaining unit for storing a plurality of terminal application programs, wherein

said information processing terminal provides said IC card with a terminal profile identifying said information processing terminal in response to said information processing terminal directly interfacing with said IC card,

said usable service judging unit uses said terminal profile in combination with functions issued from one or more of said terminal application programs for determining services that are usable with services issued from the information processing terminal for providing a list of usable services, and wherein

said system presents a user with the list of usable services in response to said interfacing, and further wherein

in response to the user selecting one of said usable services, said IC card transmits one of said terminal application programs to said information processing terminal based on the selected one of said services, and still further wherein

said information processing terminal executes said transmitted one of said terminal application programs for use by said terminal for providing the selected one of said usable services and while concurrently interacting with a program running on said IC card processor for providing said selected one of said usable services to the user, wherein

said IC card is adapted for use by other information processing terminals providing a different list of usable services.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein said list of services are based on the terminal application programs stored on said IC card, and wherein said list is provided by said IC card and displayed to the user by said information processing terminal.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein said terminal profile includes data about a type of said information processing terminal and wherein said transmitted one of said terminal application programs is chosen based on said type and wherein said one of said terminal application programs is adapted for execution on said type of said information processing terminal.