Mobile phone with portable storage device
AssigneePenbex Data Systems, Inc.
InventorYung-Ning Tso
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Abstract
The invention provides a mobile telephone, which may be connected to a mobile telephone network, and is able to wirelessly communicate with a portable CD-ROM device. The mobile telephone of the invention may access an application program on a disk in the portable CD-ROM device, and further receive an access code from the mobile telephone network for comparing the access code to a SIM card in the mobile telephone to decide if the program is available for use.
Claims12
A mobile telephone capable of connecting to a mobile telephone network and capable of wirelessly communicating with a portable CD-ROM device, the portable CD-ROM device capable of reading a CD disk having at least one application program, the mobile telephone comprising:
- a receiving and transmitting module for receiving and transmitting signals with the mobile telephone network;
- a microprocessor;
- a SIM card electrically connected to the microprocessor, wherein the SIM card comprises a mobile telephone ID code for identifying the mobile telephone;
- a wireless transmission module electrically connected to the microprocessor for transmitting signals to the portable CD-ROM device;
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- a memory electrically connected to the microprocessor, wherein the memory comprises at least one software program;
- wherein the microprocessor is able to execute the software program in the memory to achieve the following means:
- sending signals to the portable CD-ROM device;
- and
- receiving signals from the portable CD-ROM device, wherein the signals from the portable CD-ROM device includes data from the application program.
A portable data storage device for performing wireless communications with a mobile telephone, the mobile data storage device comprising:
- a wireless transmission module for receiving and transmitting signals to the mobile telephone;
- a reading device for reading data in the portable data storage device;
- a memory comprising a program;
- a microprocessor electrically connected to the wireless transmission module and the memory and being capable of executing the program in the memory to complete following means:
- receiving a signal from the mobile telephone;
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- transmitting a signal to the mobile telephone.
A method of utilizing a mobile telephone to execute an application program, the mobile telephone capable of connecting to a mobile telephone network and performing wireless communications with a portable CD-ROM device, a CD disk capable of being placed in the portable CD-ROM device, the mobile telephone comprising a SIM card, the SIM card comprising a mobile telephone ID code for identifying the mobile telephone, the application program being stored on the CD disk, the method comprising:
- reading the application program on the CD disk for the mobile telephone;
- transmitting signals from the mobile telephone to the mobile telephone network to obtain an access code;
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- using the access code to determine whether the application program stored on the CD disk can be used.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.