Portable terminal on which multiple sims are capable of being mounted, and method of selecting sim therein
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMan-Gun Hur, Jin-Woo Lee, Yong-Jin Kim, Sung-Kyu Oh
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Abstract
A method of selecting a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) in a portable terminal on which multiple SIMs are capable of being mounted, includes determining whether an application/service that is currently being executed is an application or a service for which security is previously set, selecting a SIM that is previously set for security use or a SIM that is set for general use, according to a result of the determination, and performing communication.
Claims13
A method of selecting a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) in a portable terminal on which multiple SIMs are capable of being mounted, the method comprising:
- determining whether an application or a service is executed;
- identifying, when the application or the service is executed, an operating mode of the application or the service;
- and
- selecting a preset SIM according to a result of the identified operating mode, and performing communication using the selected SIM.
A method of selecting a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) in a portable terminal on which multiple SIMs are capable of being mounted, the method comprising:
- determining whether a current operating mode is a normal mode or a security mode;
- performing communication through a second SIM, which is previously set for security use in a user menu environment, with respect to data requiring security, when determining that the current operating mode is the security mode;
- and
- performing communication through a first SIM that is previously set for general use in the user menu environment, when determining that the current operating mode is the normal mode.
A portable terminal on which multiple Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) are capable of being mounted, the portable terminal comprising:
- a mobile communication unit configured to process a wireless signal for a mobile communication function;
- at least two SIM interfaces to which at least two SIMS are mounted;
- and
- a controller configured to determine whether an application or a service is executed, identify, when the application or the service is executed, an operating mode of the portable terminal, select a preset first SIM or a preset second SIM from among the at least two SIMs based on the identified operating mode, and control an operation of performing communication through the mobile communication unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.