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US 8,571,604 B2Granted
Subscriber identity module (SIM) card access system and method
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJay Dewnani, Isaac Lagnado
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Abstract
An electronic device comprises a controller coupled to a switch and configured to control actuation of the switch to enable at least two different modules of the electronic device to access content stored on a subscriber identity module (SIM) card based on a communications module operating configuration for the electronic device.
Claims20
An electronic device, comprising:
- a controller coupled to a switch and configured to control actuation of the switch to enable at least two different modules of the electronic device to access content stored on a subscriber identity module (SIM) card coupled to the electronic device based on a communications module operating configuration for the electronic device, wherein in response to the communications module operating configuration being both a non-Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module and a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module, the controller to actuate the switch to enable the WWAN communications module to access content stored on the SIM card.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a controller coupled to a switch and configured to control actuation of the switch to enable at least two different modules of the electronic device to access content stored on a subscriber identity module (SIM) card coupled to the electronic device based on a communications module operating configuration for the electronic device, wherein the controller actuates the switch to enable a reader module to access the content in response to detecting a communications module operating configuration including an absence of operation of both a non-Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module and a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module.
A method for accessing content stored on a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, comprising:
- determining a communications module operating configuration for an electronic device having a controller, a SIM card manager, and a SIM card coupled thereto, the determination to be made by the SIM card manager;
- and responsive to determining that the communications module operating configuration is both a non-Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module and a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module, actuating a switch to enable the WWAN communications module of the electronic device to access content stored on the SIM card, the actuation to be driven by the controller.
A method for accessing content stored on a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, comprising:
- determining a communications module operating configuration for an electronic device having a controller, a SIM card manager, and a SIM card coupled thereto, the determination to be made by the SIM card manager;
- and accessing the content stored on the subscriber identity module using a reader module in response to detecting non-operation of both a non-Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module and a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module of the electronic device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon an instruction set to be executed, the instruction set, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:
- determine a communications module operating configuration for an electronic device having a subscriber identity module (SIM) card coupled thereto;
- and responsive to the determined communications module operating configuration, actuating a switch to enable at least two different modules of the electronic device to access content stored on the SIM card, wherein in response to determining that the communications module operating configuration is both a non-Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module and a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module, actuating the switch to enable the processor to access content stored on the SIM card using the WWAN communications module.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a slot configured to accept a subscriber identification module (SIM) card;
- a non-Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module coupled to a reader module, the non-WWAN communications module to utilize the reader module to read content recorded on the SIM card;
- a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module including a WWAN reader, the WWAN communication module configured to utilize the WWAN reader, and not the reader module, to read content recorded on the SIM card;
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- a switch to enable the WWAN communications module to access content recorded on the SIM card in response to detecting that both the non-WWAN communications module and the WWAN communications module are operating.
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An electronic device, comprising:
- a slot configured to accept a subscriber identification module (SIM) card;
- a non-Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module coupled to a reader module, the non-WWAN communications module to utilize the reader module to read content recorded on the SIM card;
- a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) communications module including a WWAN reader, the WWAN communication module configured to utilize the WWAN reader, and not the reader module, to read content recorded on the SIM card;
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- a switch to enable the reader module to access content recorded on the SIM card in response to detecting that neither the non-WWAN communications module nor the WWAN communications module are operating.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.