Patent ID: 8051471
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing device, comprising: an operating unit that receives an instruction of data processing by a user; a reading unit that reads, from a recording medium, authentication information of the user; a processing unit that controls, when authentication based on the authentication information succeeds, the information processing device to execute the data processing; an acquisition unit that acquires, when the authentication information is continuously read from the recording medium by the reading unit for a predetermined period of time after receipt of a signal indicating that the processing unit has completed the data processing, information about a contact destination associated with the user from the recording medium; a writing unit that writes new authentication information into an IC card by using a user's device, wherein the writing of the new authentication information comprises invalidating the authentication information and generating new authentication information of the user; and a sending unit that sends an electronic message to the contact destination, the electronic message comprising the new authentication information and indicating to the user that the recording medium remains in a vicinity of the information processing device, in response to the acquisition unit acquiring the contact destination, wherein the writing of the new authentication information further comprises the writing unit receiving an input of the new authentication information from the user's device that receives the electronic message and writing the new authentication information to a new recording medium.