Patent ID: 6253163
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
A portable object reader terminal having a memory in which an application program is stored and at least one output constituted by at least one of a display, a printer, or a communications network, or a portable object, said reader adapted to cooperate with a portable object including a non-volatile memory area (ZD) containing data including self-diagnostic or supervisory data (Ti, Dj, Sk), characterized in that said reader terminal comprises means for reading or storing, in said memory, said self-diagnostic or supervisory data (Ti, Dj, Sk) and means for sending said self-diagnostic or supervisory data (Ti, Dj, Sk) to the output specified as a function of information supplied by the self-diagnostic or supervisory data (Ti, Dj, Sk) following execution of at least one task Tt of said application program in connection with the portable object.