System, method and article of manufacture for accessing and processing smart card information

摘要

A system and method for processing information contained in a smart card (130) uses a local computer (100) on which a proxy server (120) is installed. The local computer is connected to a data communication network (110), 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 (122). The requests are received by an HTTP server (210) and passed to request brokers (214, 215, 216). In response to a request parsing operation access functions (226, 228, 340, 440, 350, 460) are activated for accessing the local storage and a smart card (130). 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 (232, 234, 236) 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.