Device and method for facilitating a transaction

Abstract

There is disclosed a device for facilitating a transaction, comprising at least one host component, a communication controller and a secure element, said communication controller being communicatively coupled to the host component and to the secure element, wherein said communication controller is arranged to establish a communication with an external transaction device, and wherein said communication controller is further arranged to operate in a secure mode of operation in which the communication controller inhibits the host component from performing transactions with said transaction device and does not inhibit the secure element to perform transactions with said transaction device. Furthermore, there is disclosed a corresponding method for facilitating a transaction, as well as a corresponding computer program product.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.