Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
  • H04M1/66—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling
  • H04M1/663—Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
  • G06F21/00—Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
  • G06F21/30—Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
  • G06F21/31—User authentication
  • G06F21/34—User authentication involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
  • G06F21/35—User authentication involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards communicating wirelessly
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
  • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
  • H04M1/725—Cordless telephones
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
  • H04M1/66—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling
  • H04M1/677—Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers
  • H04M1/6775—Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers by providing access to preprogrammed keys
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M2250/00—Details of telephonic subscriber devices
  • H04M2250/06—Details of telephonic subscriber devices including a wireless LAN interface

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a telecommunication system and a method of transmitting information which, in particular, are intended to be used by persons presenting a significant psychological vulnerability and incapable of judging for themselves the possible danger of content of messages that may be reach them from an external environment to which these people are incapable of distrust.
• the invention is particularly intended to allow young children to communicate remotely with friends or family, without these children are exposed to dangers inherent in any connection with a network of communication, in particular unwanted and unwanted solicitations from potentially malicious third parties.
• Such terminals are often completely devoid of incoming communication filtering means.
• these, to be truly effective, require to be configured in a relatively complex manner, so that an implementation of these filtering means is in fact out of reach of most parents wanting to keep their kids from incoming communications that could harm them.
• the present invention offers a solution that does not have these drawbacks by proposing a method and a telecommunications system whereby a terminal owner can expressly designate persons who will be able to come into contact with him, without these persons. have to undergo long authentication procedures later when they wish to communicate with the owner of said terminal.
• an information transmission method includes a step of detecting a mobile object carrying an identifier associated with a terminal and a step of transmitting a message to a destination represented by said identifier.
• the mobile object carries an identifier associated with the terminal allows the owner of said terminal to signify in a simple and intuitive manner to each of the persons authorized to enter into communication with him that such a possibility is offered to him. I will suffice effect for this auditing owner to hand over a mobile object to the authorized person.
• the mobile object may for example be in the form of a key or a figurine carrying a photograph of the owner of the terminal.
• the identifier may have been stored in a RFI D type contactless tag (abbreviation of the English expression "Radio Frequency Identification” well known to those skilled in the art) provided with an antenna capable of communicating with a transmitter radio frequency receiver included in the detection means.
• the identifier of the terminal is not transmitted to the person authorized as such, but on the contrary hidden in the mobile object, this identifier will remain difficult to access to malicious people so that in principle only recognized persons as authorized by their possession of a mobile object can actually contact the owner of the terminal.
• a method according to the description above will advantageously include a step of storing an identifier of the mobile object within the terminal, the message sent after detection of the object. mobile being intended to include the identifier of said object.
• Such a storage step will make it possible to identify and authenticate the sender of an incoming message by the terminal, by allowing a comparison between an identifier of the object used to transmit an incoming message and conveyed by said message with the message.
• a given terminal may be associated with a plurality of mobile objects each of which will carry a specific identifier and intended for a particular person.
• the arrival of a message sent by means of a key of blue color may be signaled by the receiving terminal by means of the emission of a blue color radiation, the owner of said terminal can then deduce the identity of the person who issued this message by remembering who the blue key was entrusted.
• the terminal may be delivered with a set of mobile objects in each of which an identifier of the terminal, for example its MAC address (abbreviation of the English expression “Medium Access Control”). known to those skilled in the art), will have been stored in the factory, that is to say prior to the marketing of the terminal.
• an identifier of the terminal for example its MAC address (abbreviation of the English expression "Medium Access Control”). known to those skilled in the art), will have been stored in the factory, that is to say prior to the marketing of the terminal.
• a method according to the preceding description also includes a step of reception by the mobile object of an identifier from the terminal.
• This mode of implementation will allow the owner of the terminal to configure itself mobile objects for example to distribute them to a larger population than that defined by the number of mobile objects originally provided with the terminal.
• the invention relates to a telecommunication system including means for detecting a mobile object carrying an identifier associated with a terminal and means for sending a message to a destination represented by said identifier.
• system described above furthermore includes means for storing an identifier of the mobile object within the terminal, the message sent after detection of the mobile object being intended to include the identifier of said object.
• At least one mobile object further includes means for receiving an identifier from the terminal.
• the identifier may be transmitted to these reception means by transmission means included in the terminal or by means external thereto and adapted for communication with at least one mobile object according to the foregoing description.
• the invention also relates, as an essential means for its implementation, a communication device including at least one terminal and at least one mobile object carrying an identifier associated with said terminal.
• the invention also relates, as a product obtained directly by the implementation of a method according to the foregoing description, a signal carrying a message sent to a destination represented by an identifier extracted from a mobile object after detection of said object.
• Fig. 1 shows a SYST communication system including a first TO terminal comprising a SPK loudspeaker, an SCR screen and a microphone MI C.
• the terminal TO is provided with ADMGI management means that may be internal or external to said terminal according to the embodiments of the latter.
• the management means can send the identifier IdTO of the first terminal TO to each of the moving objects Kj, for example by means of a radio antenna not shown here, and in this mode of particular implementation of the invention, receive from each of these objects Kj its identifier I kj, for storage on order of the CPU in a memory MEMO included in the terminal TO.
• the IdTO identifier of the terminal TO not being transmitted as such to an authorized person, but on the contrary hidden in a mobile object Kj, this IdTO identifier will remain difficult to access to malicious people.
• the authorized persons are supposed to have subscribed to a connection to an NTW communication network, while the ADMGI management means have previously been implemented to request the registration of the TO terminal in a server.
• resolution SRV which associates in an associative memory MEMs the IdTO identifier of the terminal TO to an electronic address AO exploitable by the communication network NTW. Thanks to the implementation of such a resolution process, the IdTO identifier of the terminal TO may therefore not necessarily be a fixed physical address of the MAC type, but take on an arbitrary form, such as for example a URI or URL (abbreviations well known to those skilled in the art of the English expressions "Uniform Resource Identifier" and "Uniform Resource Locator”).
• a device Ti having detected a mobile object carrying an IdTO identifier will emit a message Ms (IdTO, I ki) including in this example, besides the identifier IdTO , an identifier I ki of the mobile object Ki considered.
• the transmission of the message Ms (IdTO, I ki) is therefore very intuitive by simply presenting the mobile object Ki in front of the detection means Di adapted, and is therefore particularly placed thanks to the invention within reach young children or uninitiated people at common communication interfaces.
• the message Ms (IdTO, I ki) may be an audiovisual-type message and convey a predetermined content, such as a video-musical clip, but this message Ms (IdTO, I ki) may also carry a request for establishment a bidirectional communication in real time between the device Ti and the terminal TO.
• the message Ms (IdTO, I ki) is sent to the communication network NTW, for example via wired links of the RTC type (abbreviation of "Switched Telephone Network") or wireless type " Wi-Fi ", defined by a standard I EEE 802.1 1.
• a control infrastructure of this NTW network will query the resolution server SRV by means of the identifier IdTO of the terminal TO designated as the recipient of the message Ms (IdTO, I ki) and extract from said resolution server SRV the current electronic address AO to which the message re-addressed Ms (AO, I ki) must be routed.
• This message will finally reach IO input / output means included in the TO terminal, which means will then signify to the CPU the arrival of a message Ms (l ki) from a transmitter identified in this particular mode of implementation of the invention by the identifier I ki included in said message.
• the terminal TO is associated with a plurality of mobile objects each of which carries a specific identifier and for a particular person.
• this fact can be signaled by the terminal TO by means of the emission by the screen SCR of a radiation of blue color, the owner of said terminal TO can then deduce the identity of the person who sent this message remembering who the blue key was entrusted.
• This particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention will make it possible to deploy a secure telecommunication system in which communication with a given interlocutor can be established, however very intuitive, on presentation of a key previously issued by said interlocutor.

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