IC card with capability of having plurality of card managers installed
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasamoto Tanabiki, Kazuo Sakushima, Kazunori Inoue, Takafumi Kikuchi
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Abstract
Provided is an IC card capable of downloading a card manager even after issuance of the IC card. A first card manager stored in the ROM of an IC card is made to be capable of downloading a privileged application, which is an application having a privilege, and a privileged API in the ROM is made accessible from the downloaded privileged application. When the privileged application accesses the privileged API, the privileged application can operate as the card manager, so that the IC card can download a card manager even after issuance of the IC card.
Claims25
An IC card, comprising:
- a first card manager capable of downloading a privileged application that is an application having a privilege.
A card manager program that causes a computer to execute a step of:
- downloading a privileged application that is an application having a privilege.
A method comprising the steps of:
- providing a computer responsive to a card manager program;
- and
- downloading, in response to said card manager program, a privileged application that is an application having a privilege.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.