Verfahren zur Ausgabe von Chipkarten

摘要

The invention concerns a process for dispensing smart cards to smart card users from a magazine in a storage container. The smart cards are available in a non-predetermined way, without restriction to a particular provider or particular use. The smart cards at a point in time t1 contain those electronic components whose functions are sought before t1 by many undefined and unknown users for smart-card applications. For the purpose of loading a smart card with data and dispensing a smart card to a user, the smart card dispensing station can communicate via a user menu with a user during a period DELTA t between t1 and a later time t2. The user menu gives unambiguous and repeatable specifications regarding loading and dispensing. During the period DELTA t, the card dispensing station is connected via a cable- and/or radio-linked active communication adapter to an automatic or human-operated verification system. In the period DELTA t, the user can enter particular features via the user menu and data link into the dispensing station which transmits those features to the remote station; during the period DELTA t, the programs and/or data at the dispensing station can be modified by back-transmitted data and/or programs from the remote station. Personalisation, i.e. initial loading of the smart card with programs and/or data which are unique to and identify the card user, is done during the period DELTA t and the selection (controlled from the dispensing station) of a particular smart card from the magazine at time t2 takes place in such a way that the user operating the menu receives his own non-exchangeable card corresponding to the specifications which he or she entered via the menu and suitable for use as a smart card at some time after t2.