Communication set up between wireless devices

• US 8,385,309 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2005
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gemalto SA (Thales SA)
• Original Assignee: Gemalto SA (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Aillaud, Christophe, Ohanian, Henri
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Chirag
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kang, Suk Jin
• Application Number:
  US11/795,500
• Publication Number:
  US 20080212558A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,636 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/345
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10059 transponder driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10297 arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00

Abstract

A slave wireless device includes several applications, a wireless communication interface and a processing module. The processing module interprets a presentation request and time-slotted markers received on the communication interface, selects several applications or application groups corresponding to the presentation request, and transmits the wireless slave device identifier distinctive for each application or application group selected in the distinctive time slot in response to the presentation request. The slave device is thus enabled to indicate several application groups in response to a single presentation request.

Claims

1. A slave wireless device comprising:

a plurality of applications;

a wireless communication interface;

a processing module configured to interpret a presentation request received during a wireless startup and anti-collision phase and time-slotted markers received via the wireless communication interface;

wherein the processing module functions to;

select a plurality of applications or application groups corresponding to the presentation request, wherein the slave wireless device includes an identifier distinctive for each application or application group; and

transmit a plurality of responses, each of said responses comprising a slave wireless device identifier distinctive for each application or application group selected, in a distinctive time slot, in response to the presentation request,

wherein the processing module functions to transmit the identifier of an application or application group in the transmission time slot of the slave device identifier associated with said application or application group.

2. A slave wireless device according to claim 1, wherein the processing module functions to generate said wireless device identifiers and associate them with the respective applications or application groups, before or during startup of the presentation request.

3. A slave wireless device according to claim 1, wherein said slave wireless device is a smart card.

4. A method for setting up a wireless communication, comprising the following steps:

transmitting, during a wireless startup and anti-collision phase, from a master wireless device, a presentation request defining requested applications or application groups, and defining response time slots;

selecting, in at least one slave wireless device arranged in the range of transmission from said master device, applications or application groups, and

transmitting a plurality of responses, each of said responses comprising a slave wireless device identifier distinctive for each application or application group selected, in a distinctive time slot, in response to the presentation request,

wherein an identifier distinctive for each selected application or application group is transmitted in the transmission time slot of the slave device identifier associated with said selected application or application group.

5. A method for setting up a wireless communication according to claim 4, wherein said wireless device identifiers are generated and associated with the respective applications or application groups, before or during the presentation request.

6. A method for setting up a wireless communication according to claim 4, wherein the transmissions between the master and slave wireless devices comply with the specifications of the standard ISO 14443-3 type B.