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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1999
Dirk Herrendoerfer, Sindelfingen, DE;
Robert Sulzmann, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Martin Welsch, Herrenberg, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for processing information contained in a smart card ( ) uses a local computer ( ) on which a proxy server ( ) is installed. The local computer is connected to a data communication network ( ), such as the Internet, and comprises a network browser which is used to generate access requests to data stored on a smart card and in a local storage ( ). The requests are received by an HTTP server ( ) and passed to request brokers ( ). In response to a request parsing operation access functions ( ) are activated for accessing the local storage and a smart card ( ). Data read from a smart card may be inserted into a HTML document accessed in the local storage, and data from the local storage or from remote sources may be uploaded to a smart card. Data modifier means ( ) are provided to translate data read from the smart card into a data format corresponding to a user interface, and for translating data to be uploaded to said smart card into a predetermined smart card data format. The proxy server may be readily adapted to any smart card data format, and it may provide data security functions and data compression/decompression facilities.