Patents Assigned to GEMALTO
  • Publication number: 20120231736
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for securing the execution of an onboard NFC application in a secure element which does not include a native OTA application. The secure element interacts with a mobile terminal including a removable card. According to the invention, the method includes recording an identifier of the removable card in the secure element no later than when the NFC application is loaded onto the secure element. When an event occurs, a verification is made, in the secure element, whether or not the identifier of the removable card present in the mobile terminal corresponds to the identifier previously stored in the secure element, in order to detect a possible change of the removable card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Patrice Amiel, Stephane Poujol, Michel Martin, Gil Bernabeu
  • Patent number: 8265266
    Abstract: A cryptographic method carries out a modular exponentiation of the type C=A<B1> mod N, where A is an operand, B1 is a first exponent, N is a modulus and C is a result. The method includes the steps of masking the operand A by a number s, carrying out a modular exponentiation of the masked operand by the exponent B1, and demasking the result of the exponentiation, by removing a contribution from the random number s from the result of the exponentiation. During the step of masking the operand A, the operand A is multiplied by a parameter of the form K<s.B2>, where K is a constant and B2 is a second exponent such that B1.B2=1 mod N. The method is implemented preferably by using a Montgomery multiplier. The preferred choice for the constant K is K=2p, p being an integer lying between 0 and n, n being an upper bound of the size of the modulus N and conventionally depending on the choice of implementation of the Montgomery multiplication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Ciet, Benoit Feix
  • Patent number: 8266451
    Abstract: A portable device including a biometric voice sensor configured to detect voice information and to take an action in response to speech spoken into the voice sensor. The device also includes a voice processor configured to process the voice sensor signal characteristics. The portable device may encrypt the detected signal and may compare the detected signal characteristics with voice characteristics that are stored in a memory of the portable device for applications such as voice enabled authentication, identification, command execution, encryption, and free speech recognition. The voice sensor may include a thin membrane portion that detects pressure waves caused by human speech. The portable device may be a contact-type smart card, a contactless smart card, or a hybrid smart card with contact and contactless interfaces. The device may be powered by an internal battery or by a host via contacts or by a power signal making use of the antenna in a contactless implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Robert A. Leydier, Bertrand du Castel
  • Publication number: 20120225648
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system enabling the contactless transfer of personal data from a mobile terminal including a first antenna coupled to a first chip cooperating with a first memory to a second memory cooperating with a second chip, with said second chip being coupled to a second antenna. According to the invention, the second memory is included in a passive radiofrequency transponder supplied by the electromagnetic field emitted by said first antenna during said transfer of personal data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Jean-Yves Fine
  • Patent number: 8260353
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable device (in particular a SIM card), a communication device (in particular a cellular phone) and a system comprising a portable device and a communication device. The portable device of the invention comprises processing means, external communication means, message storage means, and a web server. It has no messaging user interface. The portable device further comprises a messaging client comprising web communication means for communicating with the web server, and comprising message management means for managing messages including at least one message stored in the portable device. The communication device of the invention may comprise a message proxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Didier Hugot
  • Publication number: 20120222131
    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: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Pascal Leroy, Joseph Leibenguth
  • Patent number: 8255877
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for managing the triggering of an application in a terminal place in an environment consisting of several access technologies. The disclosure also relates to a mobile telephone type terminal that implements the method. A test mechanism is implemented for at least one application on the basis of information contained in the tested application when a triggering event occurs for an application, thereby making it possible to recognize or deduce the network access technologies supported by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Robert Vong, Abraham Yap-Jr
  • Patent number: 8250624
    Abstract: A device, such as a chip card, is connected to a host platform that is linked to a packet network such as the Internet. The device detects security policy designation parameters in packets leaving and entering the platform and processes the packets according to stored security policies designated by the designation parameters detected. The security information linked to a user can therefore be moved from one platform to another and it is not processed by the platform. Security policies are managed by a server with which the device can initiate a communication when no security policy corresponding to the policy designation parameters detected in a packet is recognized, so that the server can assist the device in negotiating a security policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Thierry Lamotte
  • Patent number: 8245944
    Abstract: Portable communication device for at least mono-directional communication with a terminal, comprising a micro-module including a chip that comprises an antenna allowing the micro-module to communicate with a terminal when the antenna is placed in the immediate vicinity of the terminal, the device being characterized in that it comprises a reader receiving the removable micro-module, said antenna being held by said reader such that the micro-module is removable relative to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Joseph Leibenguth
  • Publication number: 20120204240
    Abstract: (EN) The invention makes it possible to allow several applications to coexist in the same card; the implementation of the applications uses reading and writing of data by the reader in the same memory location. The invention is a method for exchanging data between a mobile authentication device 3 supporting several applications Z1 to Z3 and a reader dedicated to one application in which the reader sends an authentication command and at least one read and/or write command. The authentication command allows the mobile device to authorise a transaction for at least part of an application Z1 to Z3 supported by the said mobile device. In response to the authentication command, the mobile device selects the application of the device that corresponds to the reader. The read and/or write command is carried out by addressing a definite block of data. In response to the read and/or write command, the mobile device addresses the block of the selected application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Serge Barbe, Sylvain Chafer, Michel Martin, Patrice Amiel, Jan Nemec
  • Publication number: 20120198238
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating and validating a digital authorization request, as well as to the method for supervising said authorization. The method of invention enables the guarantee, due to a combination of a series of signatures, at any time, of the identity of the bearer of the document and of the validating body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Bruno Rouchouze
  • Patent number: 8233614
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cryptographic method involving an integer division of type q=a div b and r=a mod b, wherein a is a number of m bits, b is a number of n bits, with n being less than or equal to m, and bn?1 being non-null and the most significant bit of b. In addition, each iteration of a loop subscripted by i, which varies between 1 and m?n+1, involves a partial division of a word A of n bits of number a by number b in order to obtain one bit of quotient q. According to the invention, the same operations are performed with each iteration, regardless of the value of the quotient bit obtained. In different embodiments of the invention, one of the following is also performed with each iteration: the addition and subtraction of number b to/from word A; the addition of number b or a complementary number /b of b to word A; or a complement operation at 2n of an updated datum (b or /b) or a dummy datum (c or /c) followed by the addition of the datum updated with word A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Marc Joye, Karine Villegas
  • Publication number: 20120190340
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for binding a (smart) secure device (2) to a wireless phone, said wireless phone comprising an identifier parameter, said secure device (2) being adapted to communicate with an Over-The-Air (OTA) server and being suitable for receiving services from a network operator in an authorised area determined with localisation parameters stored in the OTA server, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a. storing the identifier parameter of the wireless phone into the secure device (2) at a first powering on of the wireless phone; b. requesting a user registration on the OTA server so as to download the localisation parameters from the OTA server into the secure device (2). After successful registration confirmation from OTA server, for each powering on, the secure device (2) compares the above two parameters in the secure device (2) with the values from the phone, if they are not the same, authentication is forbidden.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Ruifeng Li, Jing Ouyang, Bin Zhang, Fang Yang
  • Patent number: 8230404
    Abstract: An integrated circuit card is used with a terminal. The integrated circuit card includes a memory that stores an interpreter and an application that has a high level programming language format. A processor of the card is configured to use the interpreter to interpret the application for execution and to use a communicator of the card to communicate with the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Timothy J. Wilkinson, Scott B. Guthery, Ksheerabdhi Krishna, Michael A. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 8229112
    Abstract: A method for encrypting/decrypting a message includes the initial step of generating keys by the sub-steps of generating a public key; generating a decryption key; and generating a derivation key. For a first entity, the message is encrypted using the public key and a cipher. For a second entity, the cipher is decrypted to find the message. A trapdoor associated with said message is generated. The trapdoor corresponds to a derivative of the derivation key specific to the message. A test cipher is tested, using the trapdoor associated with the message, to determine if the test cipher is an encryption of the message using the public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhr, Pascal Paillier
  • Patent number: 8229997
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a method for executing at least a portion of a server operation. The method includes providing an extension to a client connected to the server, where the extension includes a portable object connected to the client. The method further includes performing at least the portion of server operation by the extension, where performing at least the portion of the server operation includes executing a copy of at least a portion of server software stored on the portable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Laurent Castillo, Christoph Siegelin
  • Publication number: 20120185622
    Abstract: A matching device carries out data exchange between a processing unit and a wireless peripheral device and/or a communication object associated with the peripheral device. The matching device includes a communication interface with the processing unit; a wireless communication interface with the wireless peripheral device; information stating means for stating technical capacity information to the processing unit, enabling the latter to select an appropriate driver/communication means; and data-processing means. The data-processing means is capable of carrying out a matching of an exchange protocol and/or formats of data to be exchanged between the processing unit and the communication object. The technical capacities stated by the stating means pertains to the wireless peripheral device and/or to the communication object associated therewith, the technical capacities being considered to pertain to the matching device by the processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO S.A.
    Inventor: Grégory Capomaggio
  • Publication number: 20120178422
    Abstract: (EN)The invention relates to a portable security device (SIM) for authenticating a user (USR) of a communication device (MP1, MP2) to a server (SRV), the portable security device (SIM) comprising means for configuring said communication device (MP1, MP2). The portable security device (SIM) further comprises means for filtering the configuration of a first communication device (MP1), creating a backup of the filtered configuration of the communication device (MP1), detecting that the user (USR) changed a first communication device (MP1) for a second communication device (MP2), filtering the backup of the filtered configuration, and restoring the filtered backup of the filtered configuration of the first communication device (MP1) on the second communication device (MP2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Jose Luis Gayosso Sanchez
  • Patent number: 8219148
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for activating the subscription of an UICC, said UICC comprising an activation application, said method comprising the step of activating the subscription of the holder of the UICC by sending a message to an activation server, said message being sent by the activation application to the activation server by using an IP based communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Patrice Amiel, Xavier Berard, Hervé Ganem, Lionel Merrien
  • Publication number: 20120173482
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the enrichment of an electronic directory stored in a first electronic communication device, based on the changes in a second electronic communication device and by the application of decisional rules. The changes can also be related to a change in the hardware or software functionalities or to a modification of data contained in said second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Alain Brun, David Halle, Christophe Foesser, Lionel Mallet, Frédéric Faure