A METHOD OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A SMART CARD AND A HOST STATION

摘要

The invention relates to a method of communication between, on the one hand, a host station such as a personal computer, and, on the other hand, a portable object to a microcontroller such as a chip card, the portable object being connected, by a bus system, said host station. The present invention is characterized in that the method comprises a step in which a specific request is sent to the portable object to the microcontroller by the host station. The present invention applies in particular to the smart cards which are capable of communicating directly with a host computer according to the transfer of control of the usb standard.