Method of parameterizing the display on mobile radio communications equipment co-operating with a subscriber identity module

• US 6,341,228 B1
• Filed: 04/06/1999
• Issued: 01/22/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Hubbe, Pascal, Vasnier, Frederic
• Primary Examiner(s): MAUNG, NAY AUNG
• Application Number:
  US09/286,842
• Time in Patent Office: 1,022 Days
• Field of Search: 455/90, 455/922, 455/550, 455/558, 455/566, 455/575, 379/357
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

A method of parameterizing the display on display means associated with a piece of radiocommunications mobile equipment co-operating with a subscriber identity module, the method having the following steps in order:

said subscriber identity module sends a set of commands to said mobile equipment, said commands enabling the display on said display means to be parameterized; and

said commands are executed by said mobile equipment on said display means.

Claims

1. A method of parameterizing the display on display means associated with a piece of radiocommunications mobile equipment co-operating with a subscriber identity module, the method having the following steps in order:

said subscriber identity module sends a set of commands to said mobile equipment, said commands enabling the display on said display means to be parameterized; and

said commands are executed by said mobile equipment on said display means,

wherein said set of commands includes an activation command enabling the display means to be divided into display areas.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said set of commands includes a selection command enabling a particular display area to be selected on which subsequent display commands are to be displayed.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said set of commands includes a deactivation command enabling the current display parameters of said display means to be deactivated.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said activation command includes one or more parameters from the following set:

number of said display areas;

positions of said display areas;

sizes of said display areas; and

border appearance of said display areas.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said activation command and/or said selection command and/or said deactivation command is a command taken from the set of commands of said subscriber identity module, as defined by ETSI recommendations GSM 11.11 and GSM 11.14.

6. A method according to claim 1, including a prior step of determining authorized parameters, the prior step comprising the following substeps:

the subscriber identity module sends a command for acquiring said authorized parameters; and

the mobile equipment sends said authorized parameters.

7. A radiocommunications system including a subscriber identity module co-operating with a piece of mobile equipment Possessing display means, said subscriber identity module possessing means for sending a set of commands enabling the display on said display means to be parameterized, and said piece of mobile equipment possesses means for executing said commands on said display means, wherein said set of commands includes an activation command enabling the display means to be divided into display areas.

8. A radiocommunications system according to claim 7, wherein said set of commands includes a selection command enabling a particular display area to be selected on which subsequent display commands are to be displayed.

9. A radiocommunications system according to claim 7, wherein said set of commands includes a deactivation command enabling the current display parameters of said display means to be deactivated.

10. A radiocommunications system according to claim 7, wherein said activation command includes one or more parameters from the following set:

number of said display areas;

positions of said display areas;

sizes of said display areas; and

border appearance of said display areas.

11. A radiocommunications system according to claim 7, wherein said activation command and/or said selection command and/or said deactivation command is a command taken from the set of commands of said subscriber identity module, as defined by ETSI recommendations GSM 11.11 and GSM 11.14.