Device for Mobile Communication
AssigneeMoney and Data Protection Lizenz GmbH & Co. KG
InventorDominic Adenuga
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Abstract
A mobile device (16) includes a transceiver (40) for mobile communication and a controller (44) configured to execute an authentication function for authenticating a registered user of the device, in which the device (16) has only a single operating element (48), the functionality of the single operating element (48) is limited to activating and deactivating the authentication function, the authentication function has the transceiver logged-on to a mobile communications network and enabling a detection of an active state and/or a location of the mobile device via the mobile network, and the operating element (48) and the transceiver (40) constitute the only data input and output ports of the controller (44).
Claims19
A mobile device comprising:
- a transceiver for mobile communication, and
- a controller configured to execute an authentication function for authenticating a registered user of the device,
- only a single operating element, and functionality of said single operating element is limited to activating and deactivating the authentication function, said authentication function includes having the transceiver logged-on to a mobile communications network and enabling a detection of at least one of an active state and a location of the mobile device via the mobile network, and
- the operating element and the transceiver constitute the only data input and output ports of the controller.
A mobile device comprising:
- a transceiver for mobile communication,
- a controller configured to execute a plurality of authentication functions for authenticating a registered user of the device to respective types of transaction.
- only operating elements that are adapted for selectively activating said authentication functions, each of said authentication functions includes having the transceiver logged-on to a mobile communications network with a specific mobile address, and enabling a detection of at least one of an active state and a location of the mobile device via the mobile network, and
- the operating elements and the transceiver constitute the only data input and output ports of the controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.