US 9,544,021 B2Granted

Apparatus for communicating with a portable data carrier

AssigneeGiesecke & Devrient GmbH

InventorsKlaus Finkenzeller, Rainer Schmidtke

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Abstract

An apparatus for communicating with a portable data carrier comprises a first communication interface, based on wireless data transfer technology, for receiving and/or transmitting data via a first communication channel, and a second communication interface, based on different contactless data transfer technology, for receiving and/or transmitting data via a second communication channel. A first software interface to the first communication interface via which an application program stored in the apparatus can communicate with the first communication interface. The apparatus has a second software interface via which the application program can communicate with the second communication interface, with the communication from the first software interface to the first communication interface, and vice versa, being passed via the second software interface.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An apparatus for communicating with a portable data carrier, comprising:

a first communication interface, based on contactless data transfer technology, for receiving and/or transmitting data to/from the portable data carrier via a first communication channel;
a second communication interface, based on different contactless data transfer technology, for receiving and/or transmitting data to/from the portable data carrier via a second communication channel;
a first software interface to the first communication interface via which an application program stored in the apparatus can communicate with the first communication interface;
and
a second software interface via which the application program can communicate with the second communication interface, with the communication from the first software interface to the first communication interface, being passed via the second software interface,
wherein the second software interface is configured for analyzing and interpreting the data transferred between the first software interface and the first communication interface, and
wherein the second software interface is configured for accessing and processing the data transferred from the first communication interface, and subsequently transferring the accessed data to the application program, selectively, in dependence on the result of an analysis of the data transferred from the first communication interface.

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A method for communicating between an apparatus and a portable data carrier, wherein the apparatus comprises a first communication interface, based on contactless data transfer technology, for receiving and/or transmitting data via a first communication channel, and a second communication interface, based on different contactless data transfer technology, for receiving and/or transmitting data to/from the portable data carrier via a second communication channel, wherein

an application program stored in the apparatus communicates with the first communication interface via a first software interface, the first communication interface receiving and/or transmitting data to/from the portable data carrier;
and
a communication from the first software interface to the first communication interface, is passed via a second software interface, the application program communicating with the second communication interface via the second software interface,
wherein the second software interface analyzes and interprets the data transferred between the first software interface and the first communication interface;
and
wherein the second software interface processes the data transferred from the first communication interface and received at the second communication interface, and transfers them to the application program, selectively in dependence on the result of an analysis of the data transferred from the first communication interface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/366,174Filed 17 Dec 2012
Priority: DE 10 2011 121 66119 Dec 2011
Published: US 2014/0361877 A111 Dec 2014
Granted: 10 Jan 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06K 7/0004
Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns: hybrid readers
H04L 69/18
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass:…
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04B 5/26
Inductive coupling: using coils