Patents Assigned to Gemalto SA
  • Publication number: 20150318992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to access a data store previously locked using a passphrase from a device. The method includes the following steps, when the user requests access to the data store: requesting the user to enter the personal code; generating an access code by applying a first function to at least the entered personal code; sending out, to the server, at least an identifier of the device and the access code; for the server, comparing the access code with the preliminary received first function; for the server, if the access code is correct, returning the passphrase to the device; and for the device, unlocking the data store using the received passphrase in combination with the entered personal code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Michael WEBSTER, Seppo POHJA, Timo PALO
  • Publication number: 20150319180
    Abstract: A method for accessing a first server, wherein a first device is coupled or connected to a first server. The first device captures, at at least one predetermined time and/or during at least one predetermined time period, at least one signal, the at least one signal being emitted at a place where the first device is located. The first device, the first server or a second server compares each of the at least one captured signal to each of at least one predetermined signal respectively. And if each of the at least one captured signal does or does not match each of the at least one predetermined signal respectively, then the first device, the first server or the second server authorizes or forbids to access the first server respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Cyrille FALCOU
  • Patent number: 9179293
    Abstract: The invention relates, in particular, to a method for updating secure elements included in terminals of a telecommunication network. The terminals connect, for recurring updates and according to a first order, to a server of the network such that said server can transmit data thereto. In the context of a process for updating the secure elements, the method comprises transmitting messages requesting connection to the secure elements such that the latter connect to the server. According to the invention, the method comprises the prioritized transmission of the messages requesting connection to the secure elements in an order that is the reverse of the first order, in order to update, on a prioritized basis, the last secure elements that were updated by the recurrent updates from the start of the update process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Franck Mosse, Lionel Mallet, Richard Pico
  • Patent number: 9179317
    Abstract: The invention relates to an M2M device comprising a communication unit and a SIM card, the said SIM card comprising a controller or microcontroller (A), characterized in that the SIM card comprises at least one sensor (B; C), the said at least one sensor being a sensor selected from the group consisting of a temperature sensor, a strain sensor, a movement sensor, a displacement sensor, an inertia or acceleration sensor, a sound sensor, a pressure sensor, an impact sensor and a vibration sensor, the said controller or microcontroller (A) comprising an element for deactivating at least some of its functions following the receipt from the said at least one sensor (B,C) of at least one signal indicating that an environment status value is outside a predetermined range, thus preventing the malicious use of the said SIM card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Michel Thill, Serge Barbe
  • Publication number: 20150312033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to build a non-alterable structure and to such a non-alterable structure including data relative to a set of cryptographic material generated randomly or derived from a secret key linked to a business use, the non-alterable structure being intended to be transferred from a first entity to a second entity, the entities sharing at least an encryption/decryption key and a signature key, the structure comprising at least business data relative to the intended use of cryptographic material, an encrypted protection key encrypted with the encryption key, an encrypted set of cryptographic material encrypted with the protection key, a signature of the set of cryptographic material, the protection key and the data relative to the intended use of cryptographic material signed with the signature key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Frank DETCHEVERRY, Patrick LAMBERT, Fabien POPLIN
  • Publication number: 20150312252
    Abstract: The invention is a method for allowing a user to establish a secure session between a device and a server by using a username/password associated with the user. The user provides the username for the device. In response to a message comprising the username, the server opens a session and generates an identifier of the session and sends the identifier to the device. The identifier is transmitted to a machine distinct from the device. The user provides the password for the machine. The machine sends an authenticating message to the server, the authenticating message comprises the identifier and an authenticating data generated from the password. The server sends a result message reflecting the result of the authenticating data checking to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Olivier POTONNIEE
  • Patent number: 9172480
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the radio-frequency communication of data, in which the receiving of and/or access to said data is controlled by control means, including an electronic microcircuit, on the basis of access rights. The transmitted data includes time information, and the access rights are controlled on the basis of said time information. The invention also relates to a device for controlling access rights as well as to a radio-frequency receiving device including same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Pascal Leroy, Joseph Leibenguth
  • Publication number: 20150304318
    Abstract: To access a service, each user device stores one first key. The user device is connected to a first server. A terminal sends to a second server a connection request. The second server responds with first data relating to a transaction identifier and an associated challenge. The terminal determines a first result depending upon the first data and the first key. The terminal sends to the first server the first result and user device data. The first server identifies a user device based upon the user device data and sends to the device the first result. The device determines the challenge and the transaction identifier based upon the first result and the first key and sends to the second server the challenge and the transaction identifier. The second server verifies whether the data received from the device matches the first data and, if so, authorizes the terminal to connect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Julien DELSUC, Sylvain CHAFER, Sébastien HECART
  • Patent number: 9165236
    Abstract: This invention relates to a smart card (1) manufacturing method that makes it possible to reduce the thickness of the said smart card and directly obtain a final 3FF or 4FF format. The smart card manufacturing method comprises steps for depositing resin forming a first protective coat (11) over the electronic element assembly with a surface greater than the required smart card format and depositing a second protective coat with a format larger than the required card format on the first protective coat. The second protective coat is fixed to the first protective coat by curing the first protective coat, and then the assembly obtained in that way is cut to the required format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Stephane Ottobon, Lucile Dossetto
  • Patent number: 9164756
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for updating software in an embedded device (1), said software being stored in an EEPROM memory (12) of the embedded device, the method comprising the steps of: c) executing an update management program code, this execution step comprising:—erasing the memory area storing the former software and storing at least an update instruction at the beginning of the memory area, the execution of this update instruction leading to an access to the update management program code;—the writing of the updated software in the erased memory area; d) deleting the update instruction so that the updated software is executed at startup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Stéphane Durand
  • Publication number: 20150289135
    Abstract: Mutual authentication between: (i) a user terminal cooperating with a security element and an application for registering with a service, and (ii) a remote server that provides the service, by means of a third-party portal, includes: i) transmitting, to the remote server by means of the portal, signed information R enabling the security element to be authenticated in the remote server; ii) authenticating the security element in the remote server; iii) transmitting a value R? signed by the remote server to the application by means of the portal; iv) transmitting a request for verification of the signed value R? from the application to the security element; v) verifying, in the security element, the signature of the remote server and whether the requested service has been granted by the remote server; vi) establishing a secure connection with the remote server using the security element, and requesting that the service be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Xavier Berard, Richard Pico, Frederic Faure, Benoit Gonzalvo
  • Publication number: 20150286811
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for authenticating a user when accessing to an application securely stored on a secure element of a portable device, said method comprising a step of authenticating the user via two authentication factors. The method comprises requesting a further authentication factor to said user, in a form of challenge-response based on a randomised request associated to a biometric data of said user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Ly-Thanh Phan, Denis L'Heriteau
  • Patent number: 9152906
    Abstract: A device having a card (40) and a support (PC). The card has (a) no internal battery, (b) a single antenna (10) that receives electromagnetically data and power, (c) a data processor, (d) rectifying and filtering circuitry receiving the electromagnetic input and supplying at output terminals (A, B) a voltage to the processor. and (e) two terminals (36, 38) on an external surface of the card which are connected to the output terminals (A, B). The support is mechanically and electrically connectable to the card. It has (a) a power source that may be a battery, (b) surface terminals that mate with the card's external terminals, (c) a switch for connecting the power source to the surface terminals, and (d) a mechanism for holding together the card and support with the card's and the support terminal's electrically engaged to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Theirry Deffontaines, Philippe Rincel, Nathalie Caye
  • Patent number: 9148783
    Abstract: A method of managing data in an electronic token includes an initial step of storing a first data into the electronic token and into a secured site. Secret data, intended to be initialized in the electronic token, is identified. Instructions and a subset of the first data are also identified, wherein the subset allows the secret data to be rebuilt by applying the instructions. A reference identifying the subset is sent to the electronic token. In the electronic token, the secret data is rebuilt from the first data and the reference by applying the instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Frédéric Faure, Jean-Sébastien Paris
  • Patent number: 9148896
    Abstract: A method for establishing a communication channel between a local server and a remote server includes: i) transmitting, from the local server to a terminal, the IP address of the remote server and a communication port of the local server; ii) transmitting the IP address of the terminal from the terminal to the local server; iii) transmitting, from the local server to the terminal, a request to connect to the remote server, including the IP addresses of the remote server and the terminal, an identifier of the local server; and the communication port; iv) transmitting, from the local server to the remote server, the IP address of the terminal, an identifier of the local server, and the communication port; and v) combining, at the remote server, the identifier of the local server and the IP address of the terminal to ascertain an IP address of the local server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Didier Morel, Cyril Barras, Jean-Yves Fine, Ly-Thanh Phan
  • Publication number: 20150269473
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making an electronic module having an integrated circuit chip connected to an antenna. The method includes the steps of producing a module having electrical interconnection areas, a chip connected to the interconnection areas and a protection element covering at least the chip and part of the interconnection areas, and a radio antenna connected to the chip and arranged above the chip. The method includes a step of producing the entirety or part of the antenna, or the tracks thereof for coupling same with the interconnection areas, in three dimensions directly on the protection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Stephane Ottobon, Jean-Christophe Fidalgo, Laurent Audouard, Frederick Seban
  • Patent number: 9141901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication object comprising means for radiofrequency communication with a remote device, wherein said communication means are capable of establishing a first short-range communication and a second communication having a longer range than the first communication, said long range being enabled by Bluetooth or Wifi technology. The communication means use the same type of communication technology for the first and second communications. The invention also relates to a method for implementing the dual-range radiofrequency communication of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Michel Thill, Pierre Gravez, Matthieu Antoine
  • Publication number: 20150254669
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system (1) for issuing electonic money, transfering said money from an e-Money sender (30) to an e-Money receiver (40) and compensating said money, said system comprising an issuer (10) or e-Money Issuer for issuing said electonic money, characterized in that it comprises at least one regulated entity (60), so that the issuance of the electonic money is regulated, and the transfer and subsequent usage or misuse of the e-money is monitored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Lorenzo Gaston, Aline Gouget
  • Patent number: 9130739
    Abstract: The invention concerns the contact-less technology MIFARE, and describes a method to update a state by injecting an IV using a non-linear feedback shift register that makes use of only look-up tables and basic operations on 8-bit words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Aline Gouget, Pascal Paillier
  • Publication number: 20150249902
    Abstract: The invention specifically relates to a method for virtually connecting two persons, with the first person having a first NFC device and the second person having a second NEC device. One of the NFC devices is a telecommunications terminal comprising an application, and both NFC devices comprise the identity of the person to which they belong. According to the invention, the method includes transmitting the identity of the first person from the first NFC device to the second NFC device; transmitting the identity of the second person from the second NFC device to the first NFC device; generating a secret shared by the persons using the application, with the shared secret giving access to an Internet space shared by the persons; and storing the shared secret in the NFC devices, with a reference relating to the virtual connection thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Marc Gemeto, Jean-Yves Fine