Nxp B.v.

Christian Lackner

Siegfried H Arnold

Stefan Eder

A payment method (BV) executed by a communication facility (, N) and at least one data carrier (, K) for debiting a payment value unit (BW) from the data carrier (, K), in order to pay for a performed service, wherein the following steps are executed:

Method to pay with a smart card

In a data carrier () for contactless communication of storage data (SD) with a reader station (), a recovery device () is provided, with which, following an unexpected abort of the storing of storage data (SD) in a memory () by virtue of a lack of supply voltage, a valid storage state can be restored in memory (). For this purpose, any storage locations that are only weakly stored in memory () will be read, and the read-out storage data (SD) will be re-stored in the memory ().

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Graz, Austria

Christian Lackner