Patents Assigned to GEMALTO
  • Publication number: 20130268934
    Abstract: The present invention describes a method for securing the execution of a computer program in a multitask device. This method is based on the execution, in parallel with the program to be made secure, of a security thread, able to modify the parameters of the scheduler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Benoît Gonzalvo
  • Patent number: 8550341
    Abstract: A method wherein at least one service of an application stored in a microcontroller card is communicated to a terminal. The terminal transmits a command identifying the selected application to the card immediately after selecting the application. In order to reduce in the card the time for accessing the application service data by the terminal, a reply generator in the card selects the active services related to the application in the card in response to the command, and dynamically establishes a list of data identifying these services, to transmit a reply message including the identification data from the card to the terminal. A reply analyzer in the terminal analyzes the identification data of the reply message to communicate the at least one service of the application identified by the identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Christophe Foesser
  • Patent number: 8555366
    Abstract: The invention is a method of managing communication between an electronic token and a remote web server. The token and the server are connected to a same host machine. The token comprises first and second token servers and a memory comprising HTML data. The host machine has an Internet web browser. Said method comprises the steps of: sending a first request from the Internet web browser to the first token server, returning a first answer to the Internet browser, said first answer comprising HTML data including a connection information associated to a script, on the Internet web browser, executing the script associated to the connection information. Script execution establishes a connection to the remote server allowing a two-way communication between the second token server and the remote server through the Internet browser acting as a gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Olivier Joffray, Philippe Smadja
  • Publication number: 20130247163
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing a user with an authenticated remote access to a remote secure device (2), said remote access being initiated from a local accessing device (1), said remote secure device (2) embedding secure data related to a specific service, characterized in that it comprises establishing a mutual authentication between said remote secure device (2) and a local secure device (3) different from the local accessing device (1) so as the user of the local accessing device (3) is able to access to the secure data of the remote secure device (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Herve Ganem
  • Patent number: 8536981
    Abstract: The invention relates to a warning device for signaling the presence of a radio frequency communication. The system includes an indicator perceptible to a user and an activation circuit to sense or detect energy originating from the communication and to activate the indicator. The device is distinguished in that the indicator is a vibrator. The invention also relates to a radio frequency communication device, such as a chip card, a passport, an insert, a mobile telephone, having the warning system, and a method of fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Frédérick Seban, Jean-Luc Meridiano, Arek Buyukkalender
  • Patent number: 8538067
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process to make secure a personal portable object comprising a body of the personal portable object, a microchip, a printed image and a device to enable said personal portable object to communicate with an entity external to the device. The process includes using an image file and an insertion algorithm to generate an image feature vector Vsi(num), storing the image feature vector Vsi(num) in the microchip, using the printed image obtained by a scanning device to generate an image feature vector Vsi(dig), and using a read-back algorithm to match the image feature vector Vsi(num) and the image feature vector Vsi(dig).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Nathalie Launay, Fabrice Perion, Joseph Leibenguth, Frederic Ros
  • Publication number: 20130238904
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for protecting a sensitive operation by checking the integrity of at least a subset of the data manipulated by the sensitive operation. Data to be checked are divided into blocks, an intermediate integrity check value being computed for each block, the intermediate integrity check values being computed in random order. The invention also relates to a cryptographic device wherein at least one sensitive operation of the cryptographic device is protected by a method according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Stephanie SALGADO, David VIGILANT, Guillaume FUMAROLI
  • Patent number: 8532705
    Abstract: A method for automatically establishing a configuration of a communication appliance functioning with a subscriber identification card in a communication network. The configuration of the appliance is established via the network, following the detection and communication of its identifier over the network by means of the card. The method includes a preliminary step in which a configuration requirement is detected by means of events or absence of an event stored in the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Stephane Quetglas, Philippe Dumay
  • Patent number: 8527757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable authentication token comprising connection means for connecting to a computer, browser communication means for communicating with a browser running on the computer, and user authentication means for authenticating a user of the token to a server. The user authentication means are triggered via the browser communication means when the user connects to the server from the browser of the computer. The user authentication means are set to authenticate the user by communicating with the server through the browser. The token comprises out-of-band token communication means set to validate user authentication by establishing a communication channel between the token and the server, the communication channel bypassing the browser. The invention also relates to an authentication method and to a system comprising a token, a computer and a server to which the user authenticates with the token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: HongQian Karen Lu, Asad Mahboob Ali, Kapil Sachdeva
  • Publication number: 20130227679
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for accessing an application. A token includes at least one application that is executable by a device. The token is coupled to the device. The method comprises the following steps. The token sends to the device data for identifying the token and data for authenticating the token. The device analyses whether the token identification data is included within a list of at least one authorized token. Only if the token identification data is included within a list of at least one authorized token, then the device analyses whether the token is authenticated. And only if the device authenticates the token, then the device authorizes to execute the application. The invention also relates to a corresponding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Philippe Biton, Gérald Maunier
  • Publication number: 20130219494
    Abstract: The invention is a method of analyzing the behavior of a secure electronic token which comprises an interface for exchanging data with an external entity. The token has a lifecycle wherein the token is intended to be created then issued. The method comprises the steps of: loading and installing a dedicated application into the token after the electronic token has been issued, spying the data exchanged through the interface and providing the dedicated application with these exchanged data, generating a buffer from the exchanged data by the dedicated application, sending the buffer to an external machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Olivier Perrinot
  • Patent number: 8505979
    Abstract: A method of producing a data carrier with a marking is disclosed. The data carrier includes a laser-markable portion and a beam-modifying portion adjacent the laser-markable portion. The beam-modifying portion has a beam modifying property. The method includes irradiating a laser beam through the beam-modifying portion to allow the beam modifying property thereof to modify at least one beam property to produce a resultant laser beam. This resultant laser beam creates a marking with a visual impression corresponding to the resultant laser beam at the laser-markable portion. The method further includes modifying the beam modifying property of at least a part of the beam-modifying portion through which the laser beam is irradiated for creating the marking so that the exact same resultant beam is difficult to be obtained thereat. A data carrier thereby produced is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto Oy
    Inventor: Tapio Yrjonen
  • Patent number: 8508952
    Abstract: An electrical device that is electrically and mechanically connectable to another electrical device includes a face equipped with contact pads. An adhesive layer is on the face equipped with the contact pads. The adhesive layer is composed of a substance with adhesive properties. A plurality of openings through the adhesive are layer over each contact pad, and small metal sticks which have been grown electrolessly or electrochemically are in the areas where the openings have been created to form a plurality of conductive paths over each contact pad, the volume of which is defined by the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto S.A.
    Inventor: Beatrice Bonvalot
  • Patent number: 8508334
    Abstract: A portable intelligent object has first and second communication interfaces with a station. The first communication interface can send and/or receive data by means of inductive coupling with the station. The object also has an integrated peripheral circuit. All of the data exchanged between the peripheral circuit and the central circuit passes through the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Caruana
  • Patent number: 8488787
    Abstract: The invention concerns a terminal (T) comprising an agent (AS) for processing a secure content encrypted with a key (KCN) and transmitted by a first server (SCN). In order to manage a secure access to the secure content, an application (AG) of a portable communicating object, such as a chip card, associated with a terminal stores one type of related digital right (TDN) and a certificate and transmitted by the agent and stores an access right (DA) and the key (KCN) related to the secure content transmitted from a second server (SAD). The application adapts the access right and the key and modifies the secure content, based on the type of right, and produces a secure access file based on the adapted access right and the key and on the certificate, the produced file being accessible by the terminal so that the agent may process the modified content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Emilien Charbonnier, Frederic Faure
  • Patent number: 8487828
    Abstract: A document with a cover having a first cover part, a second cover part, at least one internal page located between the two cover parts when the document is closed, a radiofrequency microcontroller, an antenna electrically connected to the radiofrequency microcontroller, and an electromagnetic shield capable of disrupting, at least partially, the wireless communication with the radiofrequency microcontroller when the document is closed and not disrupting the wireless communication when the document is opened. The electromagnetic shield is a wire grid. The wire mesh distance between each two adjacent wires of the wire grid is smaller than a radio-frequency wavelength used for communicating with the radiofrequency microcontroller, and is at least 0.1 millimeters and at most 40 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto, SA
    Inventors: Bart Bombay, Neville Pattinson, Ksheerabdhi Krishna, Jean-Pierre Lafon, Joseph Leibenguth, Denis Groeninck, Yves Reignoux, Severine Cheramy
  • Patent number: 8483661
    Abstract: The invention relates to a personal token (10) for being associated with a mobile telecommunication device (20) and for storing credentials for access to an operator's network, characterized that the personal token (10) is arranged for loading the credentials into a memory (23) of the mobile telecommunication device (20), so that the mobile telecommunication device (20) is taken away from the personal token (10) and operative for connecting to the operator's network with the credentials in its memory (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Franck Dehlinger, Francois-Xavier Marseille, Laurent Castillo
  • Patent number: 8484712
    Abstract: The invention relates to a personal token including a microprocessor and a memory, said personal token storing and running a software entity which constitutes an end-point for communication over the internet. The software entity constitutes an end-point according to a signaling protocol over the internet and the signaling protocol is of the type intended when the session for real-time conferencing is initiated between end-points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Herve Ganem
  • Publication number: 20130173759
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable device for accessing a server. According to the invention, the device is adapted to send to a server or data relating to rights for accessing a server. The invention also relates to corresponding system, server and method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Frederic Herse, Fabrice Delhoste, Frederic Paillart
  • Patent number: 8478339
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for accessing at least one service. A host device is coupled to a chip. The chip stores data relating to at least one test Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) type application and/or data relating to at least one SIM type application. The host device sends to the chip a command for switching from a first application to a second application. The first application is either a test SIM type application or a SIM type application. The second application is either a SIM type application or a test SIM type application. And the chip carries out an activation of the second application and a de-activation of the first application. The invention also relates to a corresponding system for accessing at least one service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Paul Bradley