Card (e.g., Sim Or Magnetic Strip Card) Patents (Class 379/433.09)
  • Patent number: 7702297
    Abstract: A mobile phone includes a main body consisting of front and rear side parts; a retention groove formed in the rear side part and having pivotal holes; and a prop kept within the retention groove in the rear side part. The prop has two positioning posts pivotally inserted into the pivotal holes in the rear side part. The prop is turnable relative to the rear side part between a normal position where the prop is pressed into the retention groove, and an extended position where the prop is spaced apart from the rear side part to form an angle. Movement of the prop between the normal position and the extended position results in engagement between the positioning posts and the pivotal holes so as to permit leaning of the main body on the prop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corp.
    Inventor: Tsung-Yao Wu
  • Patent number: 7590384
    Abstract: A method for operating a near field communication system (10) of at least a first and a second near field communication device (21, 22) is proposed. It is a basic aspect of the inventive method to provide a step (S10) of supplying action data (AD) from at least one near field communication device (22) to another one second near field communication device (21), wherein said action data (AD) are descriptive for at least one action or application to be performed within a processing section (PR) of the inventive method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Dawidowsky
  • Publication number: 20080292094
    Abstract: A voicemail circuit card for use in a business telephone system is provided that includes internal memory and integrated audio outputs built into the card. Prerecorded audio files can be stored in the memory and output directly from the card to the business telephone system through the integrated audio outputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Greg Coleson, Brent Kandetzki
  • Patent number: 7409225
    Abstract: Dual connection device for memory mediums and a mobile communication terminal including the same. The dual connection device has a body portion electrically connected with a mobile communication terminal, a first receiving portion formed to the body portion for receiving therein a first memory medium, a second receiving portion formed to the body portion as to be arranged piled up to the first receiving portion for receiving therein a second memory medium, a first connection terminal installed in the first receiving portion so as to be electrically connected with a terminal of the first memory medium, and a second connection terminal installed in the second receiving portion so as to be electrically connected with a terminal of the second memory medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Pil Kim, Yong Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 7406334
    Abstract: Mobile terminals, such as cell phones, having an internal memory and operating in a GSM wireless network environment with a SIM, store private content such as images, ring tones, buddy lists, email and the like, in the terminal memory. The private content is associated with the IMSI/MSISDN information of the content owner. The terminal correlates the IMSI/MSISDN information of the SIM with the IMSI/MSISDN information of the private content to grant access to the content only upon a positive content/SIM correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: SBC Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
    Inventor: Huitao Liu
  • Patent number: 7389126
    Abstract: The present invention provides cellular phone in which a plurality of mounting parts for IC cards in which the country number of the contracting country and the own-station telephone number are stored are disposed, the cellular phone comprising position information storage means that store position of the cellular phone, selection means which make it possible to select the IC card in which the own-station telephone number that is used for calling is stored, first determination means which determine, on the basis of the country number stored in the selected IC card and the stored position information, whether or not calling is to be performed by adding header information for accessing the exchange of the contracting country of the IC card, and calling means which perform calling by adding the header information in cases where the first determination means determine that calling is to be performed by adding the header information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Aruze Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Okada
  • Patent number: 7286852
    Abstract: A subscriber identity module (SIM) for subscriber identification configured so as to be detachably loaded on a mobile communication terminal device has a application section for storing an externally downloaded application program, a processing section (or a SAT function section) for executing this application program, a storage section for storing file administrative description, file description, and file data, and file administration section for administering these information and data. The processing section, after the downloading of the application program, executes the downloaded application program to control the file administration section. Consequently, access to the data stored in the subscriber identity module is prevented, thereby preventing the third party to access the data stored in the subscriber identity module of the lost or stolen mobile communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Shigeru Imura
  • Patent number: 7280846
    Abstract: A mobile phone with a SIM card holder. The mobile phone includes a body, a holder, and a SIM card. The body includes a first concave portion and a second concave portion. The holder is disposed in the first concave portion of the body in a method such that it is moved between a first position and a second position. The SIM card is disposed in the second concave portion of the body in a detachable method. When the SIM card is disposed in the second concave portion, it is abutted by the holder so that the holder is moved to the second position from the first position. When the SIM card is located in the second concave portion, the holder is located at the first position so as to fix the SIM card in the second concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: BENQ Corporation
    Inventor: Yi Yen Lin
  • Patent number: 7280847
    Abstract: A system for performing mobile transactions includes a mobile communication device connecting to a server device via a first network. The mobile communication device includes a subscriber identification module (SIM) card slot and a virtual subscriber identification (VSIM) interface connected to the SIM card slot and it provides subscriber identity authentication to the server device via the VSIM interface. The mobile communication device further includes a mobile transaction client application for managing the communication between the mobile communication device and the server device. The mobile transaction client application manages the communication between the mobile device and the server device utilizing the Bearer Independent Protocol as defined in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute document ETSI TS 101 267 (3GPP TS 11.14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Way Systems Inc
    Inventors: Scott Goldthwaite, Andrew Petrov, Andrei Doudkine
  • Patent number: 7280845
    Abstract: With the present method for simplifying the exchange of a SIM card of subscribers of a digital mobile communications network, the subscriber disposes of an old active SIM card and makes us of a new inactive SIM card in a mobile terminal. The invention provides that the proper activation of the new SIM card and deactivation of the old SIM are carried out while in dialog with subscribers via a migration server connected to the mobile communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Jan-Hinnerk Reemtsma
  • Patent number: 7239883
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for allowing emergency calling with a Global System for Mobile (GSM) radiotelephone during temperature extremes includes a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card, a temperature sensor; and a controller that detects when the radiotelephone has a SIM card error, whereupon the controller obtains a temperature measurement from the temperature sensor. If it is found that the temperature measurement is outside of an operating temperature range of the SIM card, the controller permits the radiotelephone to make an emergency calls only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Temic Automotive of North America, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Van Bosch
  • Patent number: 7215980
    Abstract: A kind of pen-type mobile telephone. It comprises: housing (1), display (2), button (3, 4, 5), telephone receiver (6), earphone (7), etc. It is characterized in that said pen-type mobile telephone's housing possesses slender rod-form; said display (2) is slender and in longitudinal setting; In said housing (1), also included are: printed circuit board (11), radio frequency module (12), fundamental frequency module (13), and SIM card plug & receptacle (14); said printed circuit board (11) uses more than 6 layer printed circuit board, with its width less than the width of the housing (1); widths of said radio frequency module (12) and fundamental frequency module (13) are also less than the width of the housing; socket (9) inserted with SIM card plug & receptacle is set at the side face of said housing (1), and said SIM card plug & receptacle (14) uses drawer-type SIM plug receptacle. The volume of said housing (1) is less than: length 140 mm×width 35 mm×thickness 23 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignees: Haier Group Corporation, Qingdao Haier Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongsen Chai, Chunguang Song, Xiangji Li, Xintao Sun
  • Patent number: 7174174
    Abstract: A SIM card for a phone has a first memory partition on which a phone user identity and phone network access data are stored. A service usage monitoring application is stored in a memory. The service usage monitoring application (a) logs information about a service used via the phone, (b) creates a service usage record for the service activity based on the information, (c) stores the service usage record in a buffer, (d) creates a reporting message containing at least one service usage data record, (e) sends the reporting message to a remote server at a preset interval based on a triggered event, and (f) purges the at least one service usage record from the buffer upon successful transmission of the reporting message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: DBS Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Boris, Daniel McFarland
  • Patent number: 7149307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a locking arrangement for a terminal device of a telecommunication system. To improve the operating reliability of the terminal device, the attachment and locking of the structural elements changeable by the user to the rest of the device structure is improved by a locking device which consists of a solid piece (100) to be fitted into the terminal device in the different places of the frame part of which one has formed separate spring-like locking elements, each of which functions as a locking device of some structural element of this kind of the terminal device. The first spring-like locking element (20) may e.g. be adapted to lock the accumulator of the terminal device to the accumulator space reserved for it, and the second locking element (40) to lock the smart card of the terminal device to the space reserved for it in the terminal device. In the same locking piece there may also be locking elements (30, 31) for locking the accumulator cover in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Flextronics ODM Luxembourg SA, Luxembourg, Zweigniederlassung Schweiz
    Inventors: Marko Puharinen, Timo Remes, Jari Sundvall, Juhana Tuomala, Harri Turunen
  • Patent number: 6954653
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cellular phone having a card connector composed of a first slot for inserting a first IC card and a second slot for inserting a second IC card. The second slot is disposed above said first slot so that the inserting direction of said first IC card and the inserting direction of said second IC card are mutually in vertical relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuichi Morita
  • Patent number: 6947767
    Abstract: A card is slid and fitted to a card connector fixed in a card-fitting recessed portion provided inside a reverse surface-side housing of a portable terminal apparatus. A front portion of the card is held by card holding portions provided in a front portion, as viewed in a card sliding direction, of the card connector, and a rear portion of the card is held by an inner wall surface of a cover-cum-battery of the reverse surface-side housing. A housing-side stopper is provided on a bottom surface of the card-fitting recessed portion. The housing-side stopper is formed by a rectangular resilient piece having one end fixed to a bottom surface of the card-fitting recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Haga, Koji Kuchiishi, Toshihiro Higuchi, Yasunobu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6892078
    Abstract: A SIM card mounting structure of a mobile phone includes a SIM card receiving recess 5 provided in a rear surface portion of a front side casing of the mobile phone for fittingly receiving a SIM card 1 therein, a pressing portion 3 formed of an elastic material and having one end integrally formed with the rear surface portion of the front side casing and the other end positioned over the SIM card receiving recess to elastically press the SIM card 1 and electrode terminals 2 for connecting electrodes of the SIM card 1 to a battery. The electrode terminals 2 are formed of an elastic material and arranged on a bottom of the recess 5 in an opposing relation to electrodes of the SIM card 1. The one end of the pressing portion is formed integrally on an end portion of the SIM card receiving recess 5 in a longitudinal direction of the mobile phone such that the pressing portion functions as a longitudinal leaf spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Sakaguchi, Toyoshi Saito
  • Patent number: 6839431
    Abstract: In a card connector having a push-push type eject mechanism, a cam lever is retained by a cam lever retaining member made from a cantilevered leaf spring, which in turn is retained by a leaf spring formed in a metal cover. The metal cover along with the housing forms a card accommodating portion. The cam lever is therefore doubly retained by the cam lever retaining member and the leaf spring and thus prevented against coming off. This arrangement also enhances a clicking feel of the eject mechanism during the insertion and ejection of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ooya, Kazutaka Taguchi, Minoru Igarashi
  • Patent number: 6831977
    Abstract: A rear cover (1) for a telephone handset (2) is described. An inner area of the handset (2) is adapted to receive electronic circuitry (27) for the operation of the telephone. A portion of the rear cover is adapted to provide a housing (4) for a SIM card (5). The rear cover (1) is provided with electronic terminals (8b) adapted to enable electronic communication between a SIM card (5) and the electronic circuitry (27) within the telephone. The rear cover (1) desirably additionally provides a housing for a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Louise Kiernan, Colm Conlon, Colm Tobin
  • Patent number: 6823065
    Abstract: A business card communication system and auto-dial business cards. The auto-dial business cards include business information indicia and computer readable call connection information. The computer readable call connection information is configured to permit a card holder to automatically place a call to a call destination designated by the card provider. The business card communication system comprises a processing system coupled to an interface system. The processing system is configured to process a call request from a communication device to translate an access number provided in the call request and generate call handling information that routes the call request to the business premise. The interface system is configured to receive the call request from the communication device and transmit the call handling information for the processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Fred S. Cook
  • Patent number: 6782275
    Abstract: A broadcast data receiver (BDR) (10) and method of use of the same is provided. The BDR (10) receives data from a broadcaster at a remote location and processes and decodes the data to provide video, audio and/or auxiliary data. The BDR (10) is provided with a reception port/slot (8) for a SIM card (2) from a mobile phone. A smart card reader reads and processes the data stored on said SIM card memory, thereby allowing the SIM card data to be stored, viewed and/or utilized via the BDR (10) and/or display screen (14) connected or integrally formed with the BDR (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Pace Micro Technology PLC
    Inventors: Dale Mountain, Ivan Priest
  • Patent number: 6694152
    Abstract: A method for treating a subscriber data list of the subscriber identity module of a mobile station in a linear memory of the subscriber identity module, and a subscriber identity module and a mobile station. A directory structure is formed in the memory of the subscriber identity module with the aid of a directory separator. The directory separator is for instance the symbol “/”. Then for instance in the GSM system a “name” located in the “directory” is represented according to the directory structure as a term “directory/name” in the linear memory of the subscriber identity module, but the user treats the list of numbers by directories, and most preferably in an alphabetical order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventor: Seppo Helle
  • Patent number: 6594506
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an expansion card for an electronic device, preferably a card-like wireless communication device, which card (CP) comprises a cover surface (1) and a bottom surface (2) as well as an outer surface (3) edging said card (CP), and which card (CP) further comprises at least an antenna structure. Said antenna structure (ANT) is arranged as a flexible strip (4) attaching to said card (CP) and extending at least partly outside said outer surface (3). According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the strip is also arranged for pulling out said card (CP) from an expansion card interface slot. According to another advantageous embodiment of the invention, said strip (4) is arranged to be folded against said card (CP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Simo Vapaakoski, Lauri-Pekka Alanko
  • Patent number: 6580923
    Abstract: A portable telephone set includes a case having first and second sides opposite to each other, a group of keys is located on the first side of the case, and a card loading mechanism. The case includes first and second portions located on the second side. The first portion can accommodate a battery pack, and the second portion is next to the first portion and accommodates the card loading mechanism. A card in which information is stored can be loaded to the card loading mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kubo
  • Publication number: 20030069040
    Abstract: An apparatus for inserting a SIM card into the portable data processing/communication device is disclosed. The portable data processing/communication device includes a housing. The apparatus for inserting a SIM card into the portable data processing/communication device comprises a SIM card holding means and an elastic lockup means. The SIM card holding means is equipped in the inner side of the housing and comprises a SIM card passage and an ejecting means for ejecting the SIM card when the SIM card is inserted into the SIM card holding means through the SIM card passage. The elastic lockup means is equipped in the outer side of the housing corresponding to the position of the SIM card passage for locking up the SIM card when the SIM card is inserted into the SIM card holding means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: I-Cheng Chuang, San-Chi Ho
  • Patent number: 6539207
    Abstract: A grounded, shielded holder for a radio frequency communications card installed in a terminal used in a wireless network includes a built-in antenna for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals to and from the card. The antenna is formed from the material of the holder itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco Javier del Castillo, Eduard M. Kogan
  • Patent number: 6535750
    Abstract: The mobile or portable telephone includes a circuit board (15); a battery compartment (5) for a battery (20) located on a first side of the circuit board (15) and a pivotable card receptacle (10) for a telephone card arranged on the first side of the circuit board (15) next to the battery compartment. The card receptacle (10) is pivotable between a first position (25) in which the telephone card cannot be inserted or removed from the card receptacle when the battery (20) is in the battery compartment (5) and a second position (30) in which the telephone card is insertable or removable from the card receptacle even when the battery (20) is in the battery compartment (5). A button (B) may be provided for activation of the pivoting of the card receptacle into the second position from the first position. The card receptacle (10) preferably locks in the first position (25) when put in the first position and may be unlocked from the first position (25) by operation of the button (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Kay Hassend Van Gen
  • Publication number: 20020118826
    Abstract: A rear cover (1) for a telephone handset (2) is described. An inner area of the handset (2) is adapted to receive electronic circuitry (27) for the operation of the telephone. A portion of the rear cover is adapted to provide a housing (4) for a SIM card (5). The rear cover (1) is provided with electronic terminals (8b) adapted to enable electronic communication between a SIM card (5) and the electronic circuitry (27) within the telephone. The rear cover (1) desirably additionally provides a housing for a battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: Louise Kiernan, Colm Conlon, Colm Tobin
  • Publication number: 20020114447
    Abstract: In a card connector having a push-push type eject mechanism, a cam lever is retained by a cam lever retaining member made from a cantilevered leaf spring, which in turn is retained by a leaf spring formed in a metal cover. The metal cover along with the housing forms a card accommodating portion. The cam lever is therefore doubly retained by the cam lever retaining member and the leaf spring and thus prevented against coming off. This arrangement also enhances a clicking feel of the eject mechanism during the insertion and ejection of the card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventors: Masaaki Ooya, Kazutaka Taguchi, Minoru Igarashi
  • Patent number: 6347142
    Abstract: The invention concerns a card reader connector (1) having an insulating frame (2) on which are arranged several electrical contacts (4), an arm (6) for positioning card (1) in the connector and ejection of the latter from the connector and means for holding card (1) in reading position. According to the invention, the arm (6) has a first end (10) having a shaft (12) allowing the rotation of said arm (6) and a second end (14) having a piece (16) that is found in contact with card (1) during the introduction and ejection of this latter, respectively, into the connector and during its ejection from the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Framatome Connectors International
    Inventor: Jean-Baptiste Bernardet