Methods, secure element, server, computer programs and computer program products for improved application management

摘要

It presented a method, performed in a secure element, the secure element being arranged to enable user applications of the secure element to verify authenticity of incoming user application commands. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a command from a secure element reader for a user application on the secure element, the command comprising an application identifier of the user application; determining whether there is a matching user application in the secure element; invoking the matching user application; and establishing, when there is an absence of any matching user applications, a communication channel with a remote application manager server and sending an absent user application message to the application manager server indicating that the user application has been requested on the secure element. A corresponding secure element, method for an application manager server and application manager server are also presented.

主权项

1. A method, performed in an application manager server, comprising:
receiving a message indicating an absent user application from a secure element, the secure element configured to enable user applications of the secure element to verify authenticity of incoming user application commands, the secure element comprised in a mobile communication terminal, the absent user application message indicating that a command was sent from a secure element reader to the secure element to access a user application that is determined to be absent on the secure element; reading a configuration to determine how to handle the absent user application for the user application; retrieving, in response to the configuration for the user application indicating user application retrieval, the user application and an application instance state comprising state data of the user application from when the user application was most recently executed from being stored in the secure element, from a storage of the application manager server; sending the user application and the application instance state to the secure element, sending, in response to the configuration for the user application indicating that a service provider server should be informed, the absent user application message to the service provider server, wherein the service provider server is connected to the secure element reader which has requested access to the user application on the secure element; and receiving a configuration message from the service provider server indicating how the absent user application message is to be handled by the application manager server.