SECURE ELECTRONIC ENTITY INTEGRATING LIFE SPAN MANAGEMENT OF AN OBJECT

摘要

The electronic entity (11) includes a clock (18) which runs from an object reference date and a memorisation unit (19) which contains a length of life for the object and compares it with the elapsed time. If the length of life has expired an updating/invalidating unit (21) updates the length of life or indicates replacement or prevents operation temporarily or permanently. Object data is contained in a separate memory (23)