DE4201197C2 - Arrangement for access to information or services - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to an arrangement for access to Information or services according to the generic term of claim 1.

It is known to identify information carriers Service users and Use telecommunications equipment. So are for example public telephones in part nowadays set up as card phones, using the Telephone and thus the transmission of information Information carrier card is used, the corresponding Contains data to identify the user and the user corresponding invoice for the use of the To send telecommunications equipment.

DE 37 36 854 A1 includes a value card implanted integrated circuits (type card) known, with at least two on the prepaid card Integrated circuits are available with the help of which optionally at least two different applications or Devices can be activated. Depending on the arrangement of the Scanning devices for the integrated circuits or depending on Position of the introduced value card becomes one of the addressed two integrated circuits.

If the user of the telecommunications device is now a Want to use the service for the purpose automatic and secure verification of the authorization of the  Users the use of information carriers, e.g. B. The user would have to provide chip cards or chip modules firstly, an information carrier for access to the Use telecommunications network and secondly one another information carrier, that of the service assigned. This is according to the state of the art Possibility not known. It would be conceivable to have one single information carrier for both authorizations use, because of the then necessary interaction of the Provider of telecommunication service and service however, this solution is disadvantageous.

The invention is therefore based on the object Arrangement for telecommunications terminals to specify it allows, simultaneously during the duration of the means authorized by an information carrier Transfer of information for the purpose of further information Access to information or services through of the telecommunications network are offered to use.

The object is achieved in that in the Telecommunications terminal at least a second Read / write device for another Information carrier is included, and that, during the first information carrier in the first Read / write device is introduced regardless by means of the second read / write device data between the other information carrier and one with the Telecommunications network connected Service facility data are exchanged.  

An advantage of the invention results over the prior art in that the authorization to access a second or further Information source or service independent of a first access can be done.

Another advantage of the invention is the increased security over unauthorized use of the by means of a telecommunications network offered information or service.

An embodiment of the invention is explained in more detail below.

A public card telephone is according to the invention with two Access options for information carriers, such as chip cards equipped. Then it is possible for a user to use this card phone processes a service of his bank in the following way.

It is assumed that this user mentioned above from his bank, whose services he wants to use using the card phone, was equipped with a personal bank chip card, with the help of which he his identity and his right to use the agreed Can prove services beyond any doubt.

In a first step, the user inserts a telephone chip card into the Card phone to set up and hold a phone connection. In the second step, he carries the bank chip card before or during the Telephone connection into the second card reader of the card telephone. It then a connection is established over the telephone network Data processing system of the bank and the bank chip card manufactured. Now the bank customer's authorization to use this end-to-end connection Use of services of the bank checked and the type of for service available to customers be communicated to the customer. Thereupon the customer is able to get the desired service to select and use. The corresponding at this Processing data arising with the bank can optionally be in the chip card and in the bank's data processing system or in one of the two to be recorded.

The invention is by no means limited to any particular type of Information carriers or limited to telecommunications systems. It can  rather different versions and technical access types different plants.

So telecommunication terminals are conceivable, on the one hand Create a telephone connection using the telephone chip card and on the other hand allow access to optical memory cards so that mass data (e.g. the data representing an X-ray image) via a telephone connection can be passed in a practical manner.

But it is also an application in devices that, for example, as Reading and output devices for data and information serve or the Application in data processing systems conceivable.

So is a special application for better protection of computer programs conceivable by adding software for example from a floppy disk, a hard disk or another storage medium can only be used if a chip card or a chip module simultaneously or in combination is used.

In addition, the combined application is one Information carrier capable of information processing, for example one Chip card or a chip module with a carrier of mass data (e.g. magnetic or magneto-optical storage media) possible.

In addition, all known signal transmission types d. H. galvanic contact, capacitive or inductive signal exchange as well Transmission by infrared or radio frequency radiation or sound or Ultrasound for coupling the information carrier to the device is conceivable.

Claims (5)

1. Arrangement for access to information or services to which access is provided by means of a public or private telecommunication system, a telecommunication terminal being equipped with a first read / write device for an information carrier for the purpose of access to the telecommunication network, and in order to prove the usage authorization of the network are exchanged between the network and the information carrier by means of the said read / write device, characterized in that at least one second read / write device for a further information carrier is contained in the telecommunication terminal, and that while the first information carrier is inserted into the first read / Write device is introduced, regardless of which data is exchanged between the further information carrier and a service device connected to the telecommunication network by means of the second read / write device the. 2. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one of the read / write devices chip cards can read and / or describe. 3. Arrangement according to claim 1 or 2, characterized characterized in that at least one of the used Information carrier Information for use and / or to control the telecommunications terminal or in Used service facility contains.   4. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the telecommunications terminal via output options which the user of the information carrier has Information about their use and / or about the use of the device itself and / or via telecommunications receives available information or service. 5. Arrangement according to claim 4, characterized in that the output option is a voice output.