METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTACTLESS INTERFACE ON ICC SUPPORTING HIGH SPEED INTERFACE
First Claim
1. An integrated circuit (IC) card configured to communicate with a mobile terminal having a processor, comprising:
- a plurality of electrical contacts; and
a memory to store information, the memory being allowed to communicate with the processor via the plurality of electrical contacts,wherein the electrical contacts are allowed to be allocated by the processor to support an operation in at least one mode depending on a presence of a certain protocol mode detected by the processor,wherein a first set of the electrical contacts is allocated in accordance with International Standard Organization (ISO) 7816 protocol, andwherein a second set of the electrical contacts that is not allocated in accordance with the ISO 7816 protocol is allocated for at least one of a high speed protocol mode, contactless protocol mode, and a combination of a high speed and contactless protocol modes.
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Abstract
An integrated circuit card includes a plurality of electrical contacts; and a memory to store information, the memory being allowed to communicate with a processor via the plurality of electrical contacts. One set of electrical contacts are allowed to be allocated by the processor to support an operation in at least one mode depending on a presence of a certain protocol mode detected by the processor. The integrated circuit card is operable in various modes including both contactless and high speed protocols, a contactless only without the high speed protocol and the high speed protocol only without the contactless protocol.
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22 Claims
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1. An integrated circuit (IC) card configured to communicate with a mobile terminal having a processor, comprising:
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a plurality of electrical contacts; and a memory to store information, the memory being allowed to communicate with the processor via the plurality of electrical contacts, wherein the electrical contacts are allowed to be allocated by the processor to support an operation in at least one mode depending on a presence of a certain protocol mode detected by the processor, wherein a first set of the electrical contacts is allocated in accordance with International Standard Organization (ISO) 7816 protocol, and wherein a second set of the electrical contacts that is not allocated in accordance with the ISO 7816 protocol is allocated for at least one of a high speed protocol mode, contactless protocol mode, and a combination of a high speed and contactless protocol modes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for dynamically allocating at least one set of a plurality of electrical contacts of a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) device configured to communicate with a mobile terminal having a processor, the method comprising:
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receiving information from the SIM device at an open session; initiating a negotiation phase for a certain protocol mode; detecting a presence of the certain protocol mode depending on the information from the SIM device; and allocating the electrical contacts to support an operation in at least one mode depending on the detected presence of the certain protocol mode, wherein a first set of the electrical contacts is allocated in accordance with International Standard Organization (ISO) 7816 protocol and a second set of the electrical contacts that is not allocated in accordance with the ISO 7816 protocol is allocated for at least one of a high speed protocol mode, contactless protocol mode, and a combination of a high speed and contactless protocol modes. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A mobile communications terminal comprising:
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a physical interface allowed to be engaged with an integrated circuit (IC) card; a memory to store information; an open session module accessing the IC card and retrieving information therefrom at an open session of the terminal; a protocol initiation module initiating a negotiation phase for a certain protocol mode within the IC card; a detecting module detecting a presence of the certain protocol mode for the IC card; an allocating module allocating at least one set of the plurality of electrical contacts of the IC card; and a processor cooperating with the physical interface, the memory, the open session module, the protocol initiation module, the detecting module and the allocating module such that a presence of the certain protocol mode is detected depending on the information from the IC card; and
at least one set of the plurality of electrical contacts of the IC card is allocated to support an operation in at least one mode depending on the detected presence of the certain protocol mode. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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