Abstract: A connector comprising a contact arranged to mate with a contact of a corresponding connector, the contact providing a contact point of a first signal path for the transmission of electrical signals through the connector; an electrically-conductive element arranged to engage an electrically-conductive element on the corresponding connector, the electrically conductive-element providing a contact point of a second signal path for the transmission of electrical signals through the connector, wherein the electrically-conductive element comprises one or more of a region of a housing for holding the connector, a region of a locking element, two or more regions of a barrel with an internal connection path aperture, and a region of the contact electrically isolated from a main contact region.

Abstract: A connector comprising a contact arranged to mate with a contact of a corresponding connector, the contact providing a contact point of a first signal path for the transmission of electrical signals through the connector; an electrically-conductive element arranged to engage an electrically-conductive element on the corresponding connector, the electrically conductive-element providing a contact point of a second signal path for the transmission of electrical signals through the connector, wherein the electrically-conductive element comprises one or more of a region of a housing for holding the connector, a region of a locking element, two or more regions of a barrel with an internal connection path aperture, and a region of the contact electrically isolated from a main contact region.

Abstract: A communication device includes one processor to run at least two operating systems simultaneously. The at least two operating systems include a first operating system for mobile station functions having a first group of threads, the mobile station functions including operations for communicating with another device, and a second operating system for data processing functions having a second group of threads, the data processing functions including operations for processing data internally in the communication device, where the operating systems communicate with each other. The communication device further includes at least one user interface, provides for generating an interrupt, provides for selecting a thread to execute as a result of the interrupt including a common interrupt handler for the at least two operating systems, and provides for transmitting interrupt data to the operating system from which the thread was selected, including the thread to execute.

Abstract: The invention relates to a communication device comprising at least one processor to run at least two operating systems. The at least two operating systems include a first operating system comprising a first group of threads, and a second operating system comprising a second group of threads. The communication device further comprises at least one user interface, mobile station functions and data processing functions, and that of said at least two operating systems the first operating system relates to running of mobile station functions, and the second operating system relates to running of data processing functions.

Abstract: An embedded system (1) comprising at least one processor (2) for running an operating system (OS_A, OS_B). The embedded system (1) further comprises: means (17, 401, 412) for running at least two operating systems (OS_A, OS_B) in said processor (2), a first operating system (OS_A) comprising a first group of threads (THA1, THA2, THA_IDLE), a second operating system (OS_B) comprising a second group of threads (THB1, THB2, THB_IDLE), means (nFIQ, nIRQ, SWI) for generating an interrupt (FIQ, IRQ, SWI) to said processor (2), means for examining (401, 603, 617) to the execution of which thread (THA1, THA2, THB1, THB2, THA_IDLE, THB_IDLE) the interrupt (FIQ, IRQ, SWI), that has come to the processor (2), affects, and means (401, 412, 603, 609, 617) for transmitting interrupt data to said operating system (OS_A, OS_B) which relates to the thread (THA1, THA2, THB1, THB2, THA_IDLE, THB_IDLE) affecting the interrupt (FIQ, IRQ, SWI) received by the processor (2).

Abstract: A method and a mobile station by which a call can be initiated during the transmission of a set of short messages for making the initiation of the call more surely successful, because all mobile networks do not support the initiation of a call in the middle of the transmission of short messages but, instead, most of them support the transmission of short messages in the middle of an ongoing call. The mobile station temporarily ends the transmission (430) of short messages and waits until the end (450) of the transmission of a first short message before it begins the initiation (460) of a call with a mobile network. After beginning the creation of the call with the mobile network, the mobile station will begin the transmission (470) of the short messages that remained unsent, to the mobile network.