Method for the diagnostic testing of a mobile telephone terminal including contactless applications
AssigneeBouygues Telecom
InventorsAntoine Jacob, Charles-Emile Grondin, Pierre Le Pallec
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for the diagnostic testing of a mobile telephone terminal (10) including: a UICC card (13) containing a stored test application, and a contactless communication module (12) which can exchange data with a contactless unit (20) by retromodulation of a signal transmitted by the unit, said method comprising a test operation whereby the unit: emits a test application selection request; detects a response indicating application selection confirmation or failure, transmitted by the mobile telephone terminal; and determines the operating state of the UICC card or of the terminal as a function of the response detected.
Claims13
A method for the diagnostic testing of a mobile telephone terminal including UICC card containing a stored test application and a contactless communication module which can exchange data with a contactless unit by retromodulation of a signal transmitted by the unit, comprising a test operation whereby the unit performs the steps:
- (101) transmitting an initialization request having a predetermined format,
- (102) detecting
- a response transmitted by the mobile telephone terminal, or
- an absence of response by the mobile telephone terminal,
- when the unit detects a response transmitted by the mobile telephone terminal;
- (201) emitting a test application selection request;
- (202, 204) detecting a response indicating application selection confirmation or failure, transmitted by the mobile telephone terminal;
- (203, 206) determining the operating state of the UICC card or of the terminal as a function of the response detected,
- (301) transmitting a query command to the UICC card's directory querying a list of applications present on the UICC card,
- (302) determining whether a given application is present in the UICC card by looking for the application in the list of applications,
- (304) deducing an operating state of the application, said deducing being based on the presence or absence of the application in the list of applications;
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- (104) when the unit does not detect a response, then the unit deduces a malfunction of the terminal.
A contactless unit (20) configured for diagnostic testing of an operating state of a mobile telephone terminal (10) including a UICC card (13) containing a stored test application and a contactless communication module (12) which can exchange data with the contactless unit (20) by retromodulation of a signal transmitted by the unit, the unit (20) being configured to carry out a test operation whereby the unit:
- (101)transmits an initialization request having a predetermined format,
- (102)detects
- a response transmitted by the mobile telephone terminal, or
- an absence of response by the mobile telephone terminal,
- when the unit detects a response, then the unit:
- (201) emits a test application selection request;
- (202, 204) detects a response indicating application selection confirmation or failure, transmitted by the mobile telephone terminal;
- (203, 206) determines the operating state of the UICC card or of the terminal as a function of the response detected,
- the unit (20) being configured to carry out a subsequent step according to which the unit:
- (301) transmits a query command to the UICC card's directory querying a list of applications present on the UICC card,
- (302) determines whether a given application is present in the UICC card by looking for the application in the list of applications, and
- (304) deduces an operating state of the application, said deduction being based on the presence or absence of the application in the list of applications;
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- (104) when the unit does not detect a response, then the unit deduces a malfunction of the terminal.
A mobile telephone e terminal (10) including a UICC card (13) containing a stored test application and a contactless communication module (12) which is configured to exchange data with a contactless unit (20) by retromodulation of a signal transmitted by the unit (20), the test application being programmed to carry out a test operation according to which,
- when the communication module receives an initialization request having a predetermined format by the unit, the communication module transmits a response such that the unit can determine an operating state of the terminal as a function of the sent back response,
- an absence of response being associated with a malfunction of the terminal, and
- when the sent back response is detected, the communication module receives a test application selection request transmitted by the unit, the communication module sends an application selection confirmation response back to the unit, such that the unit can determine an operating state of the UICC card as a function of the sent back response, and
- when the communication module receives a query command to the UICC card's directory transmitted by the unit, querying a list of applications present on the UICC card,
- the communication module sends a list of application back to the unit, and the unit deduces an operating state of the application, said deduction being based on the presence or absence of the application in the list of applications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.