Layered SIM card and security function

US7240830B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) · SE

Inventors

• Bernd Möller · Oststraße, SE
• Matthias Esswein · Henfenfeld, DE
• Rickard Svedenmark · Malmö, SE
• Elmar Kirchner · Neukloster, DE
• Bernard Smeets · Dalby, SE
• Michael Bock · Pittsburgh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 7, 2003
• Grant date: Jul 10, 2007
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q20/3563
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A smart card and a smart card and security function system for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system. The smart card includes a software services component in which software is organized in at least one functional software unit and in a plurality of software layers arranged in order from software layers providing higher level services to software layers providing lower level services, and at least one software module in each software layer. The smart card further includes means for providing access to information and services provided by the smart card.