Abstract: A method for managing application data in an NFC system embedded or to be embedded in a portable object and including a contactless data sending/receiving interface, one or more host processors, and a data routing or transferring processor is described. The method includes generating internal application data in response to the occurrence of an internal event within the NFC system, and supplying the internal application data to a host processor of the NFC system.

Abstract: A protective envelope for a handheld electronic device is shaped to cover at least 40% of a surface of the handheld device. The protective envelope includes at least a first housing having at least one first host processor or being suitable for receiving at least one first host processor, at least one main antenna, and an assembly for linking the host processor to the main antenna.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for supplying a power supply voltage (Vccr) to a contactless integrated circuit reader (RD1) that is in a passive operating mode, in the presence of an external alternating magnetic field (FLD2), the reader comprising an antenna circuit (ACT) substantially tuned to a working frequency (F0). According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of taking off in the antenna circuit (ACT) an alternating voltage (Vcd) induced in the antenna circuit by the external magnetic field (FLD2), and rectifying the induced voltage to supply an auxiliary supply voltage (Vccr).

Abstract: A method for securing a transaction between a transaction device and an external device is described. The transaction device includes a communication controller, an application processor, and an input device. The method includes requiring the user to enter agreed transaction data via the input device, monitoring the transaction data designated to be sent to the external device or received from the external device, and preventing the transaction data designated to be sent from being sent to the external device if the transaction data designated to be sent is different from the agreed transaction data, or rejecting the received transaction data if the received transaction data is different from the agreed transaction data.

Abstract: A method for controlling the execution of an application in a system having a contactless data sending/receiving interface (CLINT) of NFC type, and host processors (HP1, HP2, HP3) is described. Control of the execution of the application is based on control of an internal data path necessary for the transfer of the data of the application. The method includes requesting authorization for opening a data path to an application control function in response to a request (CMD) for using the data path in a non-open state, emitted by a source point (P1, P3) and designating a destination point (P1, P2, P3, Pc), and opening the data path to allow the application to be executed if the application control function so authorizes.

Abstract: A contactless data transmission device includes an antenna circuit supplying an alternating voltage in the presence of an alternating excitation field, a charge modulation transistor having a control terminal receiving a charge modulation signal having at least one low state and one high state, and a conduction terminal receiving the alternating voltage. The device includes a circuit for supplying a boosted direct voltage greater than a peak value of the alternating voltage supplied by the antenna circuit, and a circuit for applying to the control terminal of the charge modulation transistor a charge modulation signal which, in the high state, has a voltage level equal to the boosted direct voltage.

Abstract: A contactless integrated circuit is provided that includes a RFID communication interface, a UHF communication interface, a data processing unit, an interface multiplexer, a communication mode detection circuit, a first modulation and demodulation circuit, a second modulation and demodulation circuit, and a multiplexer demultiplexer circuit. The interface multiplexer couples the data processing unit to the RFID or UHF communication interfaces. The multiplexer demultiplexer circuits are driven by mode signals delivered by the communication mode detection circuit, to link the data processing unit to one of the two modulation and demodulation circuits.

Abstract: A beverage production machine that includes a functional block including a beverage extraction module and a beverage delivery outlet, and a support base on which the functional block is arranged and which is designed to supply the functional block electrically, wherein at least the beverage delivery outlet is mounted free in rotation around a vertical axis relative to the support base.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for personalizing a secure processor in a NFC system to execute a secure application, comprising steps of obtaining by a server identification data of a user memorized in a secure storage medium, personalization data corresponding to the user identification data, and identification data of a NFC system of the user, comprising an encryption key of the secure processor, encrypting by the server personalization data using the encryption key, transmitting to the NFC system encrypted personalization data, receiving by the secure processor encrypted personalization data, deciphering personalization data, and memorizing in a secured way personalization data by the secure processor.

Abstract: A contactless integrated circuit includes means for sending/receiving data by inductive coupling, means for providing a communication according to at least two determined protocols, and means for automatically switching into a communication mode conforming to one or other of the protocols depending on the profile of a start of frame received at the beginning of a communication.

Abstract: A method for the secured loading of data into a first secured host processor of an NFC system comprising an NFC interface circuit for sending and receiving data, enabling a service to be accessed, the method comprising: generating a secret data, transmitting the secret data to the first host processor through a secured link, ciphering data to be loaded into the first host processor using a public key of the first host processor, and transmitting the ciphered data to the system for the first host processor which deciphers the data using a private key corresponding to the public key.

Abstract: A method and a device for protecting text for reading (23), arranged on at least one written face (22) of an object (25). The object (25) is connected to at least one matching antenna (12), produced by printing on a support (11) and having at least one electromagnetic coupling zone (14) with an individual antenna of smaller dimensions. At least one security film (3), not provided with a matching antenna (12) but with at least one individual integrated antenna microcircuit called a microtransponder (7), is applied to cover the text for reading (23) for which authentication information may be delivered using the microtransponder (7).

Abstract: An authentication method between a secure host processor and a controller of an NFC system, the controller being equipped with an NFC interface circuit sending and receiving contactless data, includes connecting the host processor to the controller and checking that there is a predefined relation between a first secret data stored by the host processor and a second secret data stored by the controller. The method further includes transmitting the second secret data to the controller and storing of the second secret data by the controller. The host processor may be removably associated with a contactless component storing the second secret data which is contactlessly transmitted to the controller.

Abstract: A method for exchanging data with an integrated circuit includes antenna connection terminals. The method includes not connecting the antenna connection terminals of the integrated circuit to an antenna, applying an alternating emulation signal at least to a first antenna connection terminal of the integrated circuit, by way of a wire link, in order to emulate the presence of an antenna signal on the first antenna connection terminal, sending data to the integrated circuit by injecting them in the emulation signal, and receiving data sent by the integrated circuit by taking them from the emulation signal.

Abstract: A method for routing data in a chipset comprising at least two host processors and one RFID-type contactless data send/receive interface configurable according to several operating modes and according to several contactless communication protocols includes routing, to at least one of the host processors, data received by the contactless data send/receive interface via a contactless data transmission channel. The method further includes determining a destination point of the data in a host processor using as criteria to determine the destination point the operating mode and the contactless communication protocol used by the contactless data send/receive interface to create the contactless data transmission channel through which the data are received.

Abstract: A method for routing data in a chipset comprising at least one host processor and an RFID-type contactless data send/receive interface includes, in response to a command for opening a data path sent by a source point located in the host processor and designating a destination point located in the contactless data send/receive interface, defining a data path linking the source point to the destination point by allocating to the data path a routing channel number and by saving in a routing table the routing channel number and routing parameters comprising at least one identifier of the source point and one identifier of the destination point, and sending to the destination point data supplied by the source point by encapsulating the data in a frame having a header field comprising the routing channel number.

Abstract: An antenna circuit tunable to a determined resonance frequency, includes an antenna coil and adjustable components. The antenna circuit includes a filter having at least one point to tap an electric voltage the amplitude of which forms a pertinent indication for the tuning of the antenna circuit. To tune the antenna circuit, the adjustable components of the antenna circuit are adjusted so that the electric voltage has a determined amplitude.

Abstract: A method and a device for protecting text for reading (23), arranged on at least one written face (22) of an object (25). The object (25) is connected to at least one matching antenna (12), produced by printing on a support (11) and having at least one electromagnetic coupling zone (14) with an individual antenna of smaller dimensions. At least one security film (3), not provided with a matching antenna (12) but with at least one individual integrated antenna microcircuit called a microtransponder (7), is applied to cover the text for reading (23) for which authentication information may be delivered using the microtransponder (7).

Abstract: A contactless integrated circuit reader includes an antenna coil for emitting an oscillating magnetic field, and circuitry for detecting the presence of a contactless integrated circuit within a communication perimeter of the reader without receiving an identification message. The detection circuitry include circuitry for emitting short magnetic field pulses, circuitry for extracting from the antenna coil an envelope signal having envelope pulses corresponding to the magnetic field pulses, and circuitry for monitoring the amplitude of the envelope pulses, arranged for detecting a variation in the amplitude of the envelope pulses representative of the entry of the contactless integrated circuit into the communication perimeter of the reader.

Abstract: A contactless integrated circuit reader includes an antenna coil for emitting an oscillating magnetic field, and circuitry for detecting the presence of a contactless integrated circuit within a communication perimeter of the reader without receiving an identification message. The detection circuitry include circuitry for emitting short magnetic field pulses, circuitry for extracting from the antenna coil an envelope signal having envelope pulses corresponding to the magnetic field pulses, and circuitry for monitoring the amplitude of the envelope pulses, arranged for detecting a variation in the amplitude of the envelope pulses representative of the entry of the contactless integrated circuit into the communication perimeter of the reader.