Mobile Communication Device with Subscriber Identity Module
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsJason Tyler Griffin, Mihal Lazaridis, Christopher Pattenden
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method of directing calls on a mobile communication device comprises receiving a call signal at the mobile communication device from a short-range enabled communication device operably connected with the mobile communication device, accessing subscriber identity module data of the short-range enabled communication device, preparing an outgoing call signal using the accessed subscriber identity module data of the short-range enabled communication device, establishing a communication session between the short-range enabled communication device and a network, and transmitting the outgoing call signal to the network.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A mobile communication device comprising:
- a first communication subsystem communicating with a wireless network;
- a second communication subsystem communicating with a first communication device comprising a first subscriber identity module having a first subscriber identity data associated therewith;
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- a processor communicably connected to the first communication subsystem and to the second communication subsystem;
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- a memory storing computer program instructions, which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- establishing a communication session between the wireless network and the first communication device while appearing to the wireless network directly as a short-range enabled communication device in response to:
- receiving a call signal originating on the first communication device operably connected to the mobile communication device via the second communication subsystem;
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- determining that the first subscriber identity data is available and accessed by the mobile communication device from the first subscriber identity module.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile communication device, a call signal originating on a first communication device comprising a first subscriber identity module having a first subscriber identity data associated therewith, wherein the first communication device is operably connected to the mobile communication device;
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- establishing, via a first communication subsystem, a communication session between a wireless network and the first communication device while appearing to the wireless network directly as a short-range enabled communication device in response to determining that the first subscriber identity data is available and accessed by the mobile communication device from the first subscriber identity module.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile communication device, a call signal originating on a first communication device comprising a first subscriber identity module having a first subscriber identity data associated therewith and operably connected to the mobile communication device;
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- establishing a communication session between a wireless network and the first communication device while appearing to the wireless network directly as a short-range enabled communication device in response to determining that the first subscriber identity data is available and accessed by the mobile communication device from the first subscriber identity module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.