MICROCIRCUIT CARD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH A CARD, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SUCH AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20100108756A1
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oberthur Technologies SA
• Original Assignee: Oberthur Technologies SA
• Inventors: Denis, Sylvestre
• Application Number:
  US12/609,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20100108756A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07 with integrated circuit chips
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0716 at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising a sensor or an interface to a sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

A microcircuit card includes elements for interacting with an electronic device, a movement or orientation sensor generating signals representing movements or an orientation of the card, elements for identifying at least one type of movement or position on the basis of the signals, and elements for sending a command executable by the electronic device and associated with the identified type.

Claims

1. Microcircuit card including:

means for interacting with an electronic device;

a movement or orientation sensor generating signals representing movements or an orientation of the card;

means for identifying at least one type of movement or position on the basis of said signals;

characterized in that it includes means for sending a command executable by the electronic device and associated with the identified type.

2. Microcircuit card according to claim 1, wherein the microcircuit card is an identification module and wherein the command is a command from the toolkit of the identification module.

3. Microcircuit card according to claim 2, wherein the microcircuit card is a mobile telephone network identification card and wherein the command is a SIM Toolkit command.

4. Microcircuit card according to claim 1, wherein the command is adapted to effect the reproduction of a signal by the electronic device when it is executed by the electronic device.

5. Microcircuit card according to claim 4, wherein the reproduction is the display of a menu of the operator on a screen of the electronic device.

6. Microcircuit card according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a telecommunication device and wherein the command is adapted to initiate a call when it is executed by the electronic device.

7. Microcircuit card according to claim 1, wherein the movement sensor is an accelerometer.

8. Microcircuit card according to claim 1, including means for receiving, from the electronic device, information indicating an event, the identification means being adapted to identify the type on detection of the event and the command being associated with the event.

9. Microcircuit card according to claim 1, including means for detecting an action of the user and means for associating a type of movement or position of the device with a function of the device as a function of the action detected.

10. Microcircuit card according to claim 1, including means for determining the relative orientation of the card and the electronic device on the basis of said representative signals.

11. Microcircuit card according to claim 1, including means for sending the device, subject to the condition at least of the initiation of the interaction, a program executable by a microprocessor of the device.

12. Electronic device carrying a microcircuit card according to claim 1 and interacting with that microcircuit card.

13. Method of controlling an electronic device interacting with a microcircuit card including a movement or orientation sensor, characterized in that it includes the following steps:

the movement or orientation sensor generating signals representing movements or an orientation of the card;

identifying a type of movement or position on the basis of said signals;

the card sending a command associated with the type identified to the electronic device;

executing of a function of the electronic device by executing said command.