Patents Assigned to GEMALTO
  • Publication number: 20120164981
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for communicating data between a first secure element and a network access point. The first secure element is coupled with a network access point. The network access point is comprised within a communication network. According to the invention, at least one of the first secure element and the network access point sends, to the other of the network access point and the first secure element respectively, data relating to an identity of a communication link, as logical link, between the first secure element and the network access point. The invention also relates to a corresponding secure element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Mireille Pauliac
  • Publication number: 20120158940
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for a secure device to resolve an IP address of a target server to which the secure device is willing to access, said secure device being suitable to be inserted in a wireless device, wherein the secure device sends a request to a DNS client that resides on said wireless device to resolve the IP address of the target server, said target server being identified by its FQDN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Kenji Nishi
  • Publication number: 20120151519
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for configuring a mobile device capable of reproducing, for a user, multimedia content previously provided by a remote content server. The invention relates to using a client installed on said electronic device to relay authentication requests between a card, preferably complying with the provisions of the Mobile Commerce Extension standard, and an authentication server that is accessible via an access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventor: Olivier Guichard
  • Patent number: 8200937
    Abstract: The invention is a method of managing flash memory-allocation in an electronic token. Said token has a memory comprising a list area and a managed area. Said managed area comprises allocated spaces and at least one free memory chunk. Said list area comprises at least one valid entry referencing a free memory chunk. Said valid entry comprises a state field. Said method comprises the step of selecting a free memory chunk further to an allocation request where said free memory chunk is referenced by an old entry, and the step of identifying a new allocated space in the selected free memory chunk. The state field of said valid entry is preset with a virgin state. Said method comprises the step of invalidating the old entry referencing the selected free memory chunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Franck Dehlinger, Francois-Xavier Marseille, Laurent Castillo
  • Publication number: 20120144474
    Abstract: The invention is a method of managing access to a plurality of data from a server by a client through a point-to-point link. Each of the data is reachable through a set of URIs that belongs to an index list. The method comprises the step of inserting a request to a control message in the index list. The control message applies to a data reachable through one URI belonging to the index list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Louis Gregoire, Alexis Pottier
  • Patent number: 8186496
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for reducing factory customizing time in a smart card (CPn), wherein a pre-customizing manager (GM) into a customizing machine loads post-customizing data (AP, OP1-OP1, DOP1-DOP1) in the smart card. Then a post-customizing application (AP) included in the smart card is enabled after delivery of the card to a user following a connection of the smart card to a terminal to process the loaded post-customizing data so as to make the smart card operational.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Olivier Potonniee
  • Publication number: 20120131634
    Abstract: The invention is a method of executing an application embedded in a portable electronic device. The application comprises one instruction handling an object. The electronic device comprises a firewall which is intended to check the compliance of the object with preset security rules. The portable electronic device comprises a volatile memory area intended to store a data set uniquely associated to the object. The data set comprises an indicator reflecting the result of the checking of the compliance of the object with the preset security rules. The method comprises the following steps before execution of the instruction, checking the presence in the volatile memory area of a data set associated to the object and comprising an indicator reflecting a successful checking of security rules, and if successful in the checking of the data set, authorizing the execution of the instruction without further security rules checking done by the firewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: François Millet, Sylvain Chafer, Franck Dehlinger
  • Publication number: 20120124605
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring an audience measurement relating to data. The data is broadcast, through a broadcast channel, from a broadcast device and to be received by at least one terminal. According to the invention, the method comprises steps in which the broadcast device broadcasts, through the broadcast channel, at least one piece of information relating to a request for measuring an audience of at least one content of the data, said audience report request; and at least one terminal sends back, through a return channel, to an audience report collecting device, as a response to the audience report request, an audience report relating to the at least one content of the broadcast data processed by the at least one terminal, said audience report response. The invention relates also to corresponding terminal and system comprising the broadcast device and the terminal, and a corresponding token likely to cooperate with a terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Annemarie Praden
  • Publication number: 20120115443
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for calculating a first identifier of a secure element of a mobile terminal according to a second identifier of said secure element. The first identifier is a temporary identifier and the second identifier is a final identifier of the secure element in a telecommunications network. According to the invention, the method comprises the steps of: a—during the first attempt to connect the mobile terminal to the telecommunications network, calculating the first identifier according to the second identifier; b—transmitting the first identifier to the telecommunications network; c—in response to a message of acceptance of the first identifier from the telecommunications network, inhibiting the use of the first identifier by the secure element and, for every subsequent attempt to connect to the telecommunications network, using the second identifier to authenticate the secure element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Radouane Ait Aissa, Jean-François Gros
  • Publication number: 20120117219
    Abstract: The invention is a method of managing an application embedded in a secured electronic token. The token is intended to receive a message from a server machine. The message has a header and a body. The token comprises an agent able to manage the message. The method comprises the steps of: a) registering the application in the agent by associating a reference of the application with a value of an element of the message header, b) when the message is received from the server machine, forwarding part of the message to the application if the message header contains an element having the value associated to the reference of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Patrice Amiel, Xavier Berard, Frédéric Gallas
  • Publication number: 20120110265
    Abstract: Method of securing exchanges between two electronic devices, by using an imprint of at least one of the two devices. This imprint is obtained on the basis of all or part of the electronic components of which this device is composed. This imprint will serve, either to protect the confidentiality of the data exchanged, or to attest to the identity of the device issuing the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Jacques Fournier, Franck Imoucha, Laurent Gauterron, Véronique Charpeignet
  • Publication number: 20120102237
    Abstract: (EN) The invention relates to a portable electronic device (SC, TK) comprising electric input means (VCC, GND, ANT) for receiving electric power from an external power supply. The portable electronic device (SC, TK) comprises an application, the application being set to be triggered when power is supplied to said electric input means (VCC, GND, ANT), and to not communicate with entities external to the portable electronic device (SC, TK), or to only notify such entities of an event. The application is further set to configure the portable electronic device (SC, TK), and to be successfully executable at most once. The invention also relate to a manufacturing equipment (M) for configuring a portable electronic device (SC, TK) and to a method for configuring a portable electronic device (SC, TK).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Michel Thill, Joseph Leibenguth, Olivier Joffray
  • Publication number: 20120102278
    Abstract: The invention relates to any electronic device such as a chip card, a passport, a dongle or any other object requiring personalization of the content of a memory. More precisely, the invention provides for a method for processing a data item of a container stored in a memory, said method being implemented by the electronic device by utilizing in particular a table of identifiers. The invention furthermore provides for a prior step for associating a data identifier with a data item of a container and creating said table of identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Olivier Joffray, Jean-Michel Desjardins
  • Publication number: 20120102513
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for measuring audience data. The data is broadcast and received by at least one terminal. The data is relative to at least one channel included within the broadcast data. According to the invention, the terminal determines at least one piece of configuration data relating to at least one channel consumed by a terminal user, the at least one piece of configuration data comprising a first time difference between two time references, a first time reference relating to an exit from a channel and a second time reference relating to an access to the channel. The invention relates also to corresponding terminal and token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Christophe Franchi, Laurent Jusseau, Ali Zeamari
  • Patent number: 8165285
    Abstract: The invention relates, mainly to a cryptographic process using an elliptic curve represented by means of an equation containing first and second parameters (a, b), a bilinear matching, and calculations in a finite group of integers constructed around at least one first reduction rule reducing each integer to its remainder in a whole division by a first prime number (p) that constitutes a third parameter, the elements of the finite group being in bijection with points selected on the elliptic curve, and the number of which is linked to a fourth parameter (q), where this process uses public and private keys, each of which is represented by a given point of the elliptic curve or by a multiplication factor between two points of this curve. According to the invention, the first reduction rule is the only reduction rule implemented, and the elliptic curve is obtained through a step-by-step construction process, directly allocating to the finite group q*q q-order points in the elliptic curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventor: Eric Brier
  • Patent number: 8162696
    Abstract: A dongle is formed by a module having an integrated circuit chip which is connected to contact pads which are flush with the surface of the module. The dongle is intended to be connected to a port of a telecommunications device, having electric connecting pins. The contact pads correspond to the electric connecting pins in such a way that the pads can be directly connected to the pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Didier Elbaz, Francois Moutel
  • Publication number: 20120091704
    Abstract: The invention relates to an enhanced security feature for identification document. For that, the identification document comprises at least two constitution layers, a first specific coating (15) inside the document, between two constitution layers, said coating being able to be revealed under predetermined lighting conditions. It comprises also an assembly of micro-holes (16) provided through at least one of the layers, in order to make possible the revelation of the first specific coating under said predetermined conditions, said assembly of micro-holes, together with said coating to be revealed through micro-holes, drawing said security pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: GEMALTO OY
    Inventors: Teemu Pohjola, Jarmo Nikkila
  • Patent number: 8154388
    Abstract: A method of demodulating signals of an electromagnetic field induced by a contactless transponder includes a step in which the signals from the transponder are detected at given times or frequency. The times or frequency of the detection are synchronized in phase with the electromagnetic field. An associated demodulator and reader are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Caruana, Alain Guinet, Gregory Capomaggio
  • Publication number: 20120072643
    Abstract: The invention is a method of managing data in a portable electronic device comprising first and second controllers. The first controller comprises a first microprocessor and a first non volatile memory. The first microprocessor comprises a first piece of code. The second controller comprises a second microprocessor and a second non volatile memory. The second non volatile memory comprises a first executable data. The method comprises the following steps of: a) loading and activating the first piece of code in the first microprocessor, b) sending by the first controller a first request for retrieving the first executable data from the second non volatile memory, c) loading the first executable data into the first controller, and d) executing the first executable data by the first microprocessor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Michel Thill, Francois-Xavier Marseille
  • Patent number: 8138566
    Abstract: A chip for a chip-incorporating portable article having a card format, such as for smartcards. The chip includes a silicon substrate layer having integrated circuits in its active face defining a central processor unit and memories. The chip also includes physical means for providing physical protection against the action of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared range of wavelength longer than 1 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Robert A. Leydier, Béatrice Bonvalot