JPH04199390A - Issuance processor for ic card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently issue an IC card with different data for every objective individual person to whom the IC card is issued by providing the data to be written in the IC card by separating it into common data and individual data, and writing in these after synthesizing them. CONSTITUTION:The data to be written in the IC card 10 is handled by separating it into the common data and the individual data. The common data is the data common to the objective IC cards 10 to be issued, and only one kind of the common data is provided by a common data supplying means 1. On the other hand, the individual data is the data different for every IC card, and is provided by an individual data supplying means 2 in the number of sheets of the IC cards to be issued. Then, a data synthesizing means 3 synthesizes the common data and the individual data of one sheet portion of the IC card, and generates synthetic data to be written in the IC card. Thus, work to write in the synthetic data different for every IC card 10 becomes possible.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to an issuance processing device for 10 carts, especially a device for issuing IC horns with different data for each individual. Regarding.

[Conventional technology]

In the future, IC cards will replace the currently popular magnetic cards.
It is expected that cards will become popular. For this IC card, common specifications have been established for several types of Taibe, and it has already been put into practical use for a limited number of purposes. CPU ROM SRAM
, EEPROM, and human output terminals for connecting these elements to external devices. It is a non-rewritable memory like ROM+, and is used as a program area to hold blocks for controlling the CPU.

RAM is a rewritable memory and is used as a work area for the CPU to operate. Also, EEP
RO! By not applying a predetermined rewriting voltage (Z), the rewriting 1-11 function is possible. This user area stores a large amount of user data compared to a magnetic card.
J, the card itself has a magnetic f7 with a CPU.
It is very different from -1 and is expected to be used in various ways in the future.

[Problems solved by the invention; 5, 5, 1, -] The IC card issuance process is performed by writing predetermined data into the EEPROK-1 as described above. 1. The IC cart issuance processing device is basically a device that writes data to the EEPR and OM. 17 However, conventionally known issue processing devices are
Although it is easy to write the same data to multiple IC cards, it is not possible to efficiently write different data to each IC card. Generally, Ic car
Cards are issued to individual friends, and the number of days to be written at the time of issuance is usually different for each individual3.For this reason, conventional devices are designed for individuals only. Issuance cannot be done efficiently.

The present invention provides an optical processing device for IC cards that can efficiently process IC cards with different data for each individual to be issued. The purpose is to provide 3 books.

[The island's means of solving problems]

The present invention provides (1) a common data supply means for supplying common data commonly used for a group of OIC cards 1 to be issued in a card issuance processing device;・For each IC car 1.
The individual data supply means that supplies different individual data, the common data supplied from the common data supply means, and the individual data supplied from the individual data supply means are combined (2. A data synthesis stage that creates different synthetic data, and the synthesis data created in this data synthesis 1' stage are
The data writing means for performing the process of writing to the memory card in the 1-y-t is provided.

[For production]

In the IC cart issuance processing device according to the present invention, the data to be written on each IC card is divided into common iM data 41 and individual data J and removed. The common date is published by Subaru 1.
Is this data common to six or more groups of IC carts, and is it common to the common data supply means)?
= As many types as possible are prepared. - Power and individual data are 11 each
The data for each C-cart is very different, and the data is prepared by the individual data supply means in the same number as the number of IC cards to be issued. The data synthesis means synthesizes this common data and the individual data for one IC 7'7 to create synthetic data to be loaded into one IC card. With this (-1), it becomes possible to write different composite data for each IC card.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be described below based on illustrated embodiments. 1st
The figure is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the issuance processing device for IC cars according to the present invention. The device ξ is connected to a group of IC7E-codes to be issued J', and is connected to a common data supply means 1 for supplying #transmission data used in
For this group of IC carts, each IC car
1.Individual data supply means for supplying particularly different individual data':,! , the common data supplied from the common data supply means 1, and the individual data supplied from the individual data supply means 2 (J and data 8
It is constituted by a data writing means 4 that performs a process of writing the composite data created in the finishing stage 3 into the memory in the IC card. The data writing means 4 writes data to (C card) 0.

IC card 1-0 is ROMII, RAM12, EEP
ROM13, CPU 1-4, and these elements f
- is provided with an input/output terminal -15 for connecting with an external device. R (1/ill) is a rewriteable memory and is used as a program area for holding programs that control the CPU 14.

The RAM 12 is a rewritable memory and is used as a work area for the CPU 14 to operate. EEPR
OMlB is a memory that can be rewritten by applying a predetermined rewriting voltage, and includes a system area for recording system data that defines the basics of this IC card 10, and a storage area for recording user-specific user data. and a user area. By changing the data written in this EEPROM1B, this IC card 1
0 can be used for various purposes.

The issuer of the IC card writes predetermined data into the EEPROM 1B according to its usage. This work is an IC card issuance work, and the device of the present invention is a device for performing this issuance work.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a memory map in EEPROM1B. In this example, the system area is divided into two areas, with a user area provided between them. User data and directory data are recorded in the user area. In Figure 2, A, B, C
, D are user data files, a,
b, c.

Each of d is a file in a directory.

The user data files A, B, C, and D are data files that should originally be recorded, and the directory files are files that have information necessary when reading these data files. For example, directory a is a file containing information necessary when reading user data A, and is composed of data such as the address value where user data A was recorded, data length, and various attributes.

Here, for convenience, a case will be described in which the IC card 10 is used as a membership card for a sports club. This sports club issues one IC card to each member who joins. When the card is issued, the following four items shall be recorded on the IC card.

■ Name of the association "rP A, T E N T Sports Club" ■ Membership number ■ Member's name ■ Member's address In this example, the contents of the above ■~■ are respectively stored in the user data A- as shown in Figure 2. It shall be recorded as D. In this case, when issuing a card, it is necessary to write the system data in system areas 1 and 2 as well as user data A to D and directories a to d in the user area. That is, in FIG. 2, it is necessary to write data to the memory area hatched with diagonal lines and dots. In other words, the work of writing predetermined data into these areas constitutes the work of issuing this IC card. In addition, as this member uses the sports club in the future, new data (for example, data regarding the member's physical fitness, etc.) will be sequentially stored in the other empty areas of EEPROM IB (white area in Figure 2). It will be written down.

Now, here are the new 10 people who have completed the new membership procedure.
Let us consider a case where IC card issuance work is performed for each of 0 members. First, let's consider the data to be written to system areas 1 and 2. As mentioned above, system data that defines the basic matters of this IC card is recorded in these areas, but since they are membership cards for the same sports club, this system data is the same for all 100 IC cards. be.

Furthermore, as described above, the user data A is data consisting of the character string "rPATENT Sports Club," which is the name of this association, so this is also the same for all 100 IC cards. The following user data B, C, and D are individual data that differs for each member, so the number of user data is 100.
Individual data is written to each IC card. On the other hand, what about directories a to d? These are data necessary to read the user data A to D, and are data indicating the address position, data length, etc. of each of the user data A to D. In other words, it is data for specifying a container for storing user data A to D. Did you do that? This directory a
-d may be the same for all 100 IC cards. Looking at it in this way, it can be seen that the data to be written in the hatched area in FIG. 2 is common to all 100 IC cards. Hereinafter, these data will be referred to as common data. On the other hand, the data to be written into the dotted areas is individual for each of the 100 IC cards.Hereinafter, these data will be referred to as individual data.

The feature of the device according to the present invention is that common data and individual data are prepared separately and then combined.

The point is that the writing operation to each IC card is carried out using the same method.

That is, in the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, the common data supply means 1 is a means for preparing common data to be written in the hatched area in FIG. This is a means for preparing individual data to be written in the areas marked with dots. The data synthesizing means 3 synthesizes the synthesized data (Figure 2 is marked with diagonal lines and dots).

All the data to be written in the selected area is created j7 and can be sent to the data writing means 4. The data writing means 4 writes this composite data to each IC car 1'', 10 EEFROMs 1
．． The work to write in 3 will be done.

In this embodiment, the data synthesis means 3 is constituted by a personal computer, and the common data supply means 1
is a keyboard for this personal computer, and the individual data supply means 2 is constituted by a magnetic tape reader connected to this personal computer. 1. In other words, common data is entered by an operator or a keyboard, and individual data is entered manually by reading data prepared on a magnetic chinibe with a magnetic tape reader.

In addition, in order to perform the synthesis work using the data synthesis means 3,
A predetermined format of the compositing pool is required, and in practice the operator has to input the format for this compositing together with the common data. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a size mat for combining with common data. In the common data 1 part, system data to be written in the system area in Figure 2 and user data A (character string "rPATENT sports club") are included.
It is recorded along with the address value to be written. Further, in the common data 2 portion, system data to be written in the system area 2 in FIG. 2 is recorded together with the address value to be written. A format for compositing is recorded between these. In this format, merge information is recorded together with address values. Details of this merge information will be described later.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of individual data prepared by the individual data supply means 2. The individual data is composed of records, and one IC card corresponds to the data of the code.

In this embodiment, the individual data of the code is composed of three pieces of data: the member number, the member's name, and the member's address, as shown in FIG. This, te, 1. O0
It is prepared in the form of individual data for each person or magnetic tape.

The data synthesizing means 3 performs the work of synthesizing common data and format as shown in FIG. 3 and individual data as shown in FIG. 4. FIG. 5 shows an overview of this synthesis work. The first file is created by merging the second record into the part of the format for compositing shown in FIG. Similarly, by merging the second record, third record, . . . , 100th record, the second file, third file, . . . , 100th file are created. This merging operation is performed based on merging information. For example, in the individual data shown in Figure 4, if the member number is represented by 10 bytes, the name is represented by 10 bytes, and the address is represented by 20 bytes, then the format for synthesis shown in Figure 3 is The following data can be recorded in the section.

In this way, based on the merge information, it is specified where the data in each record of the individual data shown in FIG. 4 should be merged. In this way, data synthesis means 3
As a result, 100 files will be created.

The data writing means 4 is specifically a reader/writer device for IC cards, and the data writing means 4 is a reader/writer device for IC cards.
The work of writing each file to a separate IC card 10 is performed. At this time, it is possible to have the reader/writer device write to one IC card each time one file is created by the data synthesizing means 3. Secure a memory area for the buffer, expand the created files one by one into this buffer memory area, and after expanding all files (100 files in this example) into this buffer memory area, It is more practical to perform writing work. In reality, the operator
The work of inserting the cards 10 into the data writing means 4 one by one is performed. Every time a new IC card 10 is inserted, the data writing means 4 repeats the operation of reading a new file in the buffer memory area and writing it to the inserted IC card 10. 100 operators
If the operation of sequentially inserting the 100 IC cards is performed, different data will be written to each of the 100 IC cards.

In the manner described above, the process of issuing IC cards to 100 members is completed. The operator only needs to input common data once, and for individual data, prepare data for 100 people on magnetic tape, dividing it into each record in the format shown in Figure 4. Bye. Thereafter, the operation of inserting the 100 IC cards one by one into the data writing means 4 may be repeated. Therefore, the operator's workload is extremely light.

Although the present invention has been described above based on an illustrated embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment only.
In addition to this, it can be implemented in various other ways. For example, in the above-described embodiment, a keyboard is used as the common data supply means 1, and an example is shown in which the operator inputs common data from the keyboard, but it is also possible to reuse common data input in the past. For example, if common data entered in the past using a keyboard is saved in a storage device such as a magnetic disk, the common data can be prepared by simply reading out the saved data. Furthermore, as the individual data supply means 2, in the above embodiment,
Although an example using magnetic tape has been shown, it is also possible to receive data online, or data may be supplied by other storage media. Further, in the above embodiment, a personal computer is used as the data synthesis means 3, or a larger computer may be used. In addition, in FIG. 1, the data synthesis means 3
Although it is shown as one block, it is actually composed of a computer system to which peripheral devices such as a display device and a disk drive device are connected.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the IC card issuance processing device according to the present invention, the data to be written to each IC card is prepared separately into common data and individual data, and these data are combined and written. It becomes possible to efficiently issue IC cards with different data for each individual.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the IC card issuance processing device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a memory map in the EEPROM of the IC card shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the common data. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of individual data prepared by the individual data supply means, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of data synthesis by the apparatus shown in FIG. 1. It is a conceptual diagram of work. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Common data supply means, 2... Individual data supply means, 3... Data synthesis means, 4. Data writing means, 1
0...IC card, 11. ROM, 12. RAM
, ]3... EEPROM, 14 CPU, 15 input/output terminal, A~・D・user data, a~・b de,
Directory. Patent applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. Applicant's agent: Hiroshi ShimuraffPROM
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Claims (1)

[Claims] Common data supply means for supplying commonly used common data for a group of IC cards to be issued; and supplying individual data different for each IC card for the group of IC cards. individual data supply means; common data supplied from the common data supply means;
Individual data supplied from the individual data supply means,
data synthesis means for synthesizing the data and creating different synthetic data for each IC card; and data writing means for writing the synthetic data created by the data synthesis means into a memory within the IC card. An IC card issuance processing device characterized by: