JP2007148596A - Information distribution method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten the amount of time since an application is acquired through a network until the application is stored in an IC card. <P>SOLUTION: An AL server 101 compares an application 412 loaded to a card 401 with the load conditions of the application whose load is requested, and the investigation of investigation items which have been investigated by the loaded application is saved. Thus, it is possible to achieve the above processing by storing load conditions for every application, and comparing the load conditions of the loaded application with the load conditions of the application whose load is requested. Also, it may be possible to store information showing whether or not the application has been loaded as well as the load conditions. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method of loading (transmitting or storing) data (information) including an application program into a storage medium from a remote location via a network such as the Internet to a storage medium or an information processing apparatus including an IC card.

  Conventionally, as disclosed in Patent Document 1, there is a service providing method in which a plurality of applications can be mounted on one IC card. However, when loading an application, it is necessary to apply for each application individually. If it takes time to apply for one application, the time until the card holder actually obtains the application also becomes longer. End up.

JP 2002-366912 A

  In the above prior art, when the card holder tries to load a plurality of applications, there is a problem that an application load application must be made and a load permission must be obtained each time.

  Therefore, in the present invention, those having been subjected to the examination of the load conditions are controlled so as to omit the examination process. Compare the load conditions of the application that has been reviewed (including loaded) with the load condition of the application that is requesting the load, and among the requested load conditions, load conditions other than the reviewed load conditions (specific (Condition) is controlled to execute the examination process. Note that the special condition means a condition that requires an examination process, and if there is something that satisfies the examination in the previous examination, it is not a unique condition even in another condition. On the contrary, even if the contents are the same, if a reexamination is necessary, there are special conditions (such as an examination that has an expiration date and this has expired).

  More specifically, the application load server compares the load condition of the application that the card holder wants to load with the load condition of the application that the card holder already owns. If it is included in the load condition of the load application, the application load server permits the application to be loaded on the assumption that the load condition examination of the application desired to be loaded has already been completed.

  Further, the present invention includes the following aspects. On the server side, a table in which information for identifying each application and information for identifying a load condition are stored in association with each other is used. At this time, information indicating the presence or absence of each item constituting the load condition and information for identifying the application may be stored in association with each other as the load condition. Furthermore, in the present invention, on the server side, for each load requester (or device or card), information indicating whether or not each application is loaded (or examined) may be stored in association with each other. Then, using this stored content, a loaded application may be specified, and an item that has already been examined (or a load condition) may be specified.

  Furthermore, information specifying an already loaded (examined) application may be received from the load requester (or device or card). In this case, from the load requester side, information (code distributed at the time of application loading, code numbered for each review (load), information available to the person (device) who received the load (or review), Load permission information) may be used as information for identifying an application. Also, information (PIN, individual identification information, IP address, MAC address, etc.) for identifying the load requester (or device or card) may be used.

  The load destination of the present invention includes information processing apparatuses such as storage media (magnetic card, FD, CD-ROM) other than IC cards, PCs, and mobile phones. Also, the load targets include programs such as application programs, OS, middleware, and so-called digital contents (still images, texts, moving images, music, etc.).

  According to the present invention, when a card holder loads a plurality of applications onto an IC card, it is possible to omit some of the loading condition examinations of the application to be loaded, and to shorten the time until obtaining the application. .

  Hereinafter, an embodiment when the card holder of the present invention loads an application will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of the present invention. The system configuration in this embodiment includes an AL server 101, an AP server 201, a CL terminal 301, and a card 401.

  The AL server 101 notifies the operator of the control means 111 for controlling the operation of the entire server, the input means 112 for the server operator to input information to the server, the input results of the input means 112, the processing results performed by the server, etc. Output means 113 for storing, application data possessed by the AL server 101 and storage means 114 for storing load conditions for loading each application, communication means for communicating with the AP server 201, the CL terminal 301, etc. And a server installed at a site such as a download center managed by an online application load service provider. Details of the data recorded in the storage unit 114 will be described later with reference to FIG. Each server and terminal may be so-called computers, and each information process is executed by the control means in accordance with a program stored in a storage medium.

  The AP server 201 provides the application data necessary for online loading of the application owned by itself to the online application load service provider, and the AL server 101 managed by the online application load service provider applies the application load from the card holder. Is a server having a function of determining whether or not the load condition is satisfied for the load application and returning the app load permission / denial to the AL server 101, and each application provider's site At least one server.

The CL terminal 301 notifies the operator of the control means 311 for controlling the operation of the entire terminal, the input means 312 for the terminal operator to input information to the terminal, the input results of the input means 312 and the processing results performed at the terminal. To communicate with the output means 313, the communication means 314 for communicating with the AP server 101 and the like, the storage means 315 for storing data necessary for the operation of the CL terminal 301, and the card 401, The terminal is composed of a card R / W 316 for reading and writing data, and is installed in each card holder, a store that provides an online application loading service, a kiosk terminal that provides an online application loading service, or the like.
The card 401 includes a card ID 411 that uniquely determines each card and an application 412 provided by each application provider, and is an IC card owned by each card holder or a storage medium having an equivalent or similar function.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of data stored in the storage unit 114 of the AL server 101. The storage unit 114 stores a plurality of applications 412. In this embodiment, it is assumed that four applications of application A 412A, application B 412B, application C 412C, and application D 412D are stored. The storage unit 114 further stores a load condition corresponding to each application to be stored. In this embodiment, it is assumed that four load conditions of load condition A413A, load condition B413B, load condition C413C, and load condition D413D are stored. Details of the load condition will be described later with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the load condition data table 501 stored in the storage unit 114 of the AL server 101. Load conditions are stored so as to correspond to each application. In this embodiment, the load condition A413A of the application A412A is the text type 3 data of name, address and phone number, the load condition B413B of the application B412B is the text type 4 data of the name and address, phone number and date of birth, and the application C412C. It is assumed that the load condition C413C stores text type 5 data of name, address, telephone number, occupation and annual income, and the load condition D413D of application D412D stores text type 1 data of name. In the present embodiment, when the number of data in one load condition X is equal to or less than the number of data in another load condition Y and each data included in the load condition X is included in the data of the load condition Y, the load condition X is loaded. It is expressed that it is included in the condition Y.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an action when loading an application 412 having a card holder. First, the card holder inserts the card 401 owned by the card R / W 316 of the CL terminal 301 and applies for loading of the application 412. The CL terminal 301 receives the card holder application load application, executes the CL terminal processing 601, and transmits the load application to the AL server 101. The load application information includes information such as an ID for uniquely determining the application 412 that the card holder desires to load, and information such as an ID for uniquely determining the already loaded application 412 on the card 401 owned by the card holder. Including at least. Details of the CL terminal processing 601 will be described later with reference to FIG. The AL server 101 that has received the application load application from the CL terminal 301 executes the AL server process 602. Details of the AL server process 602 will be described later with reference to FIG. As a result of the AL server processing 602, when the load condition of the application 412 for which the card holder is applying for loading is included in the load condition of the already loaded application 412, the AL server 101 permits the loading of the application 412 desired by the card holder. . When the loading condition of the application 412 for which the card holder is applying for loading is not included in the loading condition of the loaded application 412, the AL server 101 requests the CL terminal 301 to transmit the loading condition information via the communication unit 114. Then, the CL terminal 301 requests the card holder to input the load condition information via the output unit 313, and the card holder inputs the load condition information of the load desired application 412 via the input unit 312. Transmits the input load condition information to the AL server 101 via the communication means 314, and the AL server 101 permits loading of the application 412 desired by the card holder.

  Further, when there are load conditions for the application 412 owned by the AL server 101 that are included in the load conditions for the application 412 that the card holder wants to load, the AL server 101 sends the CL terminal 301 via the communication means 114. The application 412 corresponding to the load condition included in the load condition of the application 412 desired to be loaded is notified that the application can be loaded. The CL terminal 301 that has received the notification that the loadable application 412 exists, notifies the card holder that the loadable application 412 exists through the output unit 313. When the card holder loads the loadable application 412, the AL server 101 loads the application 412.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing processing executed in the CL terminal processing 601. The CL terminal 301 receives identification information such as an ID for identifying an application desired to be loaded via the input unit 312. Thereafter, information such as an ID for uniquely determining an application 412 already loaded on the card 401 is read from the card 401 via the card R / W 316. The CL terminal 301 uniquely identifies the application 412 already loaded on the card 401 received via the R / W 316 and information such as an ID for uniquely determining the application 412 desired to be loaded received via the input unit 312. Information such as the ID to be determined is transmitted to the AL server 101 via the communication means 314.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing processing executed in the AL server processing 602. The AL server 101 receives information such as an ID for uniquely determining an application 401 desired to be loaded from the CL terminal 301 and information such as an ID for uniquely determining an already loaded application 412 on the card 401 via the communication unit 115. Receive. Subsequently, the load condition corresponding to the application 401 desired to be loaded received in the process is compared with the load condition corresponding to the application 412 already loaded in the card 401 received in the process. As a result, when the load condition of the application 401 desired to be loaded is included in the load condition of the already loaded application 412, the AL server 101 loads the application 412 for which the card holder is applying for loading, and then the communication means. Through 115, data included in the load condition of the loaded application is transmitted as load application information to the AP server 201 of the provider of the application 412. As a result of comparing the load condition of the application 401 desired to be loaded with the load condition of the application 412 already loaded on the card 401, the load condition of the application 401 desired to be loaded is not included in the load condition of the already loaded application 412. The AL server 101 requests the CL terminal 301 to transmit the load condition information of the application 412 to be loaded via the communication unit 115, and obtains the load condition information of the application 412 to be loaded from the CL terminal 301.

  Thereafter, the data is transmitted to the AP server 201 owned by the application provider of the application 412 to be loaded via the communication means 115, and when the load permission is returned from the AP server 201, the AL server 101 requests the card holder to load the card. The application 412 in the middle is loaded, and then data included in the loaded condition of the loaded application is transmitted to the AP server 201 of the provider of the application 412 as load application information via the communication unit 115. When a load disapproval is returned from the AP server 201, the AL server 101 transmits to the CL terminal 301 via the communication means 115 that the application 412 that the cardholder wants to load is disallowed. To end the process. After executing the loading of the application 412 desired to be loaded by the card holder, the AL server 101 compares the loading conditions of the loading application 412 with the loading conditions of the applications 412 owned by the AL server 101. As a result, if there is a load condition for the application 412 owned by the AL server 101 included in the load condition for the application 412 that is desired to be loaded, the AL server 101 determines that the loadable application 412 exists, If the card holder loads the loadable application 412, the loadable application 412 is loaded, and the communication means 115 is communicated to the AP server 201 owned by the application provider of the application 412. Via that, the load condition information of the application is transmitted.

  At the end of the process, the AL server 101 transmits the load result of the application 412 to the CL terminal via the communication unit 115.

Overall configuration of this system The figure which shows the information preserve | saved at the memory | storage means of an application load server Chart showing an example format of load conditions stored in the storage means of the application load server Operation flow diagram when the card holder executes application load Processing flow diagram at the client terminal when the card holder applies for application loading Process flow diagram on the application load server when the card holder applies for application load

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 ... AL server, 111 ... Control means, 112 ... Input means, 113 ... Output means, 114 ... Storage means, 115 ... Communication means, 201 ... AP server, 301 ... CL terminal, 311 ... Control means, 312 ... Input means, 313: Output means, 314 ... Communication means, 315 ... Storage means, 316 ... Card R / W, 401 ... Card, 411 ... Card ID, 412 ... App, 412A to 412D ... Example of app, 413A to 413D ... App A Load conditions A to D of application D, 501... Load condition data table stored in storage means of AL server, 601... Application load application process performed at CL terminal, 602. Application load performed at AL server Processing at the time of application

Claims (3)

In an information distribution method for distributing predetermined information from an information distribution device according to a predetermined condition via a network,
The information distribution apparatus includes:
Receiving from the distribution request device connected to the network a distribution request including identification information of information requesting distribution and condition specifying information specifying conditions already determined for distribution to the distribution request source;
Identifying a first distribution condition of information identified by the identification information using the identification information;
Using the condition specifying information, specify a second distribution condition that is a condition determined for distribution to the request source,
Comparing the first delivery condition and the second delivery condition to extract a condition specific to the first delivery condition;
With respect to the unique condition, an examination process for examining whether or not the condition is satisfied is performed,
An information distribution method comprising: determining whether information requested by the distribution request can be distributed based on a result of the examination. The information distribution method according to claim 1,
The information distribution apparatus includes:
Storage means for associating and storing distribution conditions for each piece of information;
An information distribution method characterized in that the first distribution condition is specified using the storage content of the storage means. In the information delivery method according to claim 1 or 2,
The information distribution device identifies the second distribution condition by any of the following processes:
(1) A first table stored in advance and associated with information specifying an application and an examined distribution request source is stored, and the distribution request source is sent as the condition specifying information from the distribution request device. And specifying the second delivery condition by comparing with the first table,
(2) A second table in which information and information distribution conditions are stored in advance is stored, the identification information is received as the condition specifying information from the distribution request device, and the first table The second delivery condition is specified by comparing with the table of 2;
An information delivery method characterized by the above.

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