Classifications

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  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
  • G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means
  • G07F7/10—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means together with a coded signal, e.g. in the form of personal identification information, like personal identification number [PIN] or biometric data
  • G07F7/1008—Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
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  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
  • G06Q20/08—Payment architectures
  • G06Q20/20—Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
  • G06Q20/202—Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
  • G06Q20/30—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks
  • G06Q20/34—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
  • G06Q20/341—Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
  • G06Q20/30—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks
  • G06Q20/34—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
  • G06Q20/355—Personalisation of cards for use

Definitions

• the invention relates to smart cards and, more particularly, to a system for personalizing microcircuit cards in large series.
• microcircuit card is meant a plastic card in the thickness of which is housed a microcircuit. Depending on the use of the card, it is necessary to save data from a data file and calculations in the memory of a microcircuit, in particular a chip with or without a microprocessor. These operations are called "personalization" of the microcircuit card and are carried out by a personalization machine. The time to perform these operations is between 15 and 30 seconds per card for cards used in the mobile phone for example.
• the personalized data of each card is supplied to the reader / encoder by a peripheral device via a communication bus associated with a control device.
• a peripheral device via a communication bus associated with a control device.
• additional functions such as: the calculation of so-called transport keys to unlock the microcircuit before the personalization operations, the calculation of a session key for the securing of the data to be entered in the card and, the calculation of a certificate which authorizes the creation of a directory or a file.
• An object of the present invention is therefore to provide a smart card personalization system, which does not have the limitations of the systems of the prior art, by improving the data exchange flows between the personalization lines or devices and peripheral encryption devices.
• This object is achieved by implementing a communication architecture between the personalization devices or lines and the peripheral devices in which, on the one hand, the personalization lines receive personalization data by a communication bus and, on the other hand
• a data server provides the encryption data to the personalization lines by computer links, the encryption data being supplied by peripheral encryption devices via computer links.
• This architecture makes it possible to limit the data traffic on the communication bus by allocating it to the personalization data, the encryption data being conveyed by other computer links.
• each personalization station is designed to request a data server in a predetermined manner.
• the drawback lies in the risk of requesting a data server by two or more personalization stations at the same time while another data server is available. This causes a wait in the customization station task.
• the invention therefore also aims to optimize the response time of a data server to a request from a personalization station.
• This goal is achieved by having recourse to a means of management interface, placed between the personalization machines and the servers, which is informed and which takes into account the availability of a server to respond as quickly as possible to the request for a station. customization.
• the invention relates to a smart card personalization system characterized in that it comprises: at least one personalization machine each equipped with at least one personalization station emitting requests for personalization data; at least one personalization data server delivering personalization data;
• At least one management interface connected on the one hand to at least one of said personalization machines and on the other hand to at least one of said data servers by a bidirectional link, said management interface receiving said requests, transmitting them to at least one of said servers, receiving the corresponding response, and transmitting it to the requesting personalization station, characterized in that said management interface is capable of managing the transmission of solicitations / requests or needs for personalization data to the at least one of said servers upon receipt and upon availability of said server.
• the management interface coordinates execution at the same time or periodically and for each customization station at least the following types of tasks:. monitoring the occurrence of a request, monitoring the availability of each server,
• This management interface includes:
• each data server and each personalization station being respectively connected to the computer by a serial link of the multi-channel card, a multi-task real time operating system for exploiting said tasks at the same time and in real time.
• this system allows a production site to determine the necessary and sufficient needs for a data server in relation to a profitability or productivity objective. Indeed, in the prior art, to achieve the same objective, it was inevitable to have excess data servers, which can be very expensive.
• the invention further allows:
• Any other device necessary for electrical personalization (Access control module in particular in the form of a smart card, etc.). optimizing the sharing of these resources as much as possible to one or more personalization machines;
• This data server / management interface is based on a real time PC system which is "cascadable", this which means that several management interfaces can be daisy-chained together by local network. It is thus possible to increase the power of the personalization system, the operating system of a management interface being able to manage the whole directly. This ability is particularly advantageous because it gives the customization system a great deal of flexibility.
• FIG. 2 is a diagram of a device which allows a connector to be transformed into two serial type computer links.
• a smart card personalization system comprises, for example, four personalization machines MPI to MP4 which are each connected to a data server SD by computer links of the LS series type.
• Each personalization machine MPI, MP2, MP3 or MP4 of smart cards CP includes, for example for the MPI machine, for example six lines or personalization stations PP1 to PP6 in parallel to simultaneously personalize six smart cards CP1 to a DC control device containing the personalization data of each card to be personalized,
• a communication bus BC for transmitting to each personalization station PP1 to PP6 the personalization data of each smart card CP1 to CP6 supplied by the control device DC,
• Each personalization station PP1 to PP6 comprises: a reader / encoder referenced LEi for the station PP1 and LE6 for the station PP6, this reader / encoder, more commonly called reader, being for example that marketed by the applicant under the term GCI400DC, - a microprocessor, referenced TBP1 for the PPl station and TBP6 for the PP6 station, each microprocessor comprising two serial type computer links, one LSI to LS6 to the SD data server and the other LL1 to LL6 to the reader / encoder.
• the SD data server includes:
• a computer such as a personal computer PC which is equipped with a multichannel card CM, real-time multi-task system,
• peripheral encryption devices DEPL to DEP6 for example six peripheral encryption devices DEPL to DEP6, the initials DEP being the acronym for the English expression "DATA ENCRYPTION PERIPHERAL", these peripheral devices DEPL to DEP6 are each connected to the computer PC by a serial link LDI to LD6 of the CM multi-channel card.
• the data server SD is designed to manage four personalization machines MPI to MP4 each comprising six personalization stations, each personalization station being connected by a serial link LS to an input of the multichannel card CM .
• the function of the PC computer is to manage the requests for cryptographic data from each personalization station by addressing peripheral devices DEPL to DEP6 via the serial links LDI to LD6 and transmitting the cryptographic data to the personalization device by LSI to LS6 serial links.
• each TBP microprocessor is equipped with two serial links LS, one LS to the computer PC and the other LLE to the reader / encoder LE.
• some of these conductors can be used to make serial links using a DA adaptation device which includes two adapters for serial link SLA1, SLA2 and a switching circuit RS according to the diagram in FIG. 2.
• the eight terminals of an output connector COS are shown, comprising:
• the CLK, I / O, V cc and GND terminals are connected to an adapter which supplies the serial signals on two output terminals Rx and Tx.
• the terminals CLK and I / O are connected to a double switch RS, the position of which is controlled by the signal on the terminal v pp -
• a first switch RS1 is connected to the clock terminal CLK by its terminal input and to the CLK input terminals of two adapters SLA1 and SLA2 by its two output terminals.
• a second RS2 switch is connected to the I / O terminal by its input terminal and to the I / O input terminals of the two adapters SLA1 and SLA2 by its two output terminals.
• the DD terminal is connected to the two switches R ⁇ l and R ⁇ 2 while the Vcc and GND terminals are connected to the adapters SLA1 and SLA2.
• These adapters SLA1 and SLA2 each have two output terminals Rxl, Txl and Rx2 and Tx2 which carry out, for example respectively, the serial link LS with the server SD and the serial link LLE with the reader / encoder LE.
• the terminal Txl or Tx2 is assigned to the transmission of the signal while the terminal Rxl or Rx2 is assigned to the reception of the signal.

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