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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toru Shinagawa, Toride, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235492 ; 235380 ; 235487 ;
Abstract
An IC card storing therein information transmitted from an external terminal unit includes a processor, an interface, a first memory for storing a system program, a second memory for storing an application program, and a third memory for storing processed data. The second memory includes a latch circuit for temporarily latching data of a plurality of bytes transmitted to the IC card from the external terminal unit, and an electrically erasable and programmable memory for storing data of a predetermined number of bytes when the data is transferred to the latch circuit.