Time management at communication protocol layer for a smart card-type device

US7975057B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GEMALTO SA · FR

Inventors

• Pascal Guterman · Aubagne, FR
• Laurent Bonnet · Mesum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 2, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 5, 2011
• Expiry date: Dec 19, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F7/084
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An entity of the smart card type has an application layer linked to a communication protocol layer. A time manager containing a timer interfaces with the protocol layer. The time manager substantially periodically constructs waiting time extension requests transmitted to a terminal through the protocol layer as long as data are being processed in the application layer. The application layer is thus freed from any time constraint.