ON-BOARD SYSTEM COMPRISING NETWORK INTERFACE MEANS AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING APPLICATIONS LOCATED IN SAID ON-BOARD SYSTEM

摘要

The invention concerns a method for activating (Ai) applications (A1-An) of an on-board system, in particular of a chip card (2a) connected to a terminal (1) provided with a reader, via a WEB -type browser. The terminal (1) and the chip card (2a) comprise each, besides the conventional protocol layers (101-102), corresponding to the ISO 7816 standards, a specific layer (13, 23a). The latter comprises intelligent agents (132, 232a1) for setting up two-way data exchange sessions, thereby enabling the chip card (2a) to have a WEB server functionality. Moreover, the chip card (2a) comprises intelligent agents (ATS1-ATSn), called script translators, interacting with the applications (A1-An), thereby enabling to activate a selected application (Ai), using conventional orders, corresponding to ISO 7816 standards. In another embodiment, provision is made for dynamic updating of the chip card (2a), in particular from a browser. The invention also concerns the corresponding on-board system.