Personal point of sale
AssigneeCubic Corporation
InventorsMalcolm Lyne, David deKozan, Kay Paetzold
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Abstract
Embodiments provided herein include techniques for enabling a mobile device to communicate with smart media in a manner that can sidestep the secure element of the mobile device—and the costs associated with it. The mobile device can communicate with the smart media using near-field communication (NFC) by creating an encrypted connection with a remote computer while bypassing a secure element of the mobile device. This allows the mobile device to provide point-of-sale (POS) functionality by reading and/or writing to the smart media, without compromising the security of the smart media.
Claims23
A method for enabling a mobile device to communicate with a smart media, the method comprising:
- providing a user interface with the mobile device, the user interface operable to receive user input;
- receiving, with the mobile device, the user input;
- reading information from the smart media with the mobile device;
- establishing a secure communications link between the mobile device and a remote computer, wherein establishing the secure communications link includes providing at least a portion of the information from the smart media;
- receiving encrypted data from the remote computer via the secure communications link;
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- communicating the encrypted data to the smart media.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions embedded thereon enabling a mobile device to communicate with a smart media, the instructions including computer-executable code for:
- providing a user interface with the mobile device, the user interface operable to receive user input;
- receiving the user input;
- reading information from the smart media;
- establishing a secure communications link between the mobile device and a remote computer, wherein establishing the secure communications link includes providing at least a portion of the information from the smart media;
- receiving encrypted data from the remote computer;
- and
- communicating the encrypted data to the smart media.
A method for enabling a mobile device to communicate with a smart media, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a mobile device, identifying information regarding the smart media;
- determining, with a computer, an encryption key based on the identifying information;
- establishing a secure communications link between the computer and a mobile device, wherein the secure communications link is established, based on at least a portion of information read from the smart media by the mobile device;
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- communicating encrypted data to the mobile device, via the secure communications link, to be written on the smart media.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.