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AssigneeIntel Deutschland GmbH
InventorsHans Bauernfeind, Uwe Hildebrand, Martin Wulsten
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A radio communication device and a method for booting a radio communication device are provided. The radio communication device can be configured to load an operating system code of a processor during execution of an authentication procedure code. For example, a first portion of the operating system code can be loaded, then the authentication procedure code can be loaded after the loading of the first portion of the operating system code. After the initiation of an authentication procedure that is based on the authentication procedure code, then a second portion of the operating system code can be loaded.
A radio communication device, comprising:
A method for booting a radio communication device, the method comprising:
A radio communication device, comprising:
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Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: authentication
Bootstrapping: loading of operating system
User authentication: involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
For authentication of entities: using passwords
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Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to a radio communication device and a method for booting a radio communication device.
In the drawings, like reference characters generally refer to the same parts throughout the different views. The drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead generally being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention. In the following description, various embodiments of the invention are described with reference to the following drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a processor and memory arrangement of a mobile device;
FIG. 2 shows the boot-related circuits for a mobile radio communication device according to an embodiment of the invention;
Embodiments of the invention provide a fast detection after powering on a radio communication device whether a user identification card is present and the card holder verification (CHV) is enabled, and a fast prompting of the user for PIN (personal identification number) entry (if required).
In the context of this description under a user identification card may be understood as e.g. a SIM (Subsciber Identity Module) as used in GSM, UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card) as used in UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) or similar cards. In UMTS the UICCs contain one or more applications. At least one of these applications represents a USIM (Universal Subscriber Identity Module). The UICC may contain several USIMs.
Conventionally, smartphones usually offer Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functionality by running an operating system (OS) like Symbian, Windows (CE, mobile), or Linux. Since these operating systems are not real time capable, they are running on an own processor, the application processor (AP), while the telephony functionality (the 2G/3G protocol stack) has to be run on a separate modem processor (MP). Both of the processors, the application processor and the modem processor have their own memory subsystem, often including Random Access Memory (RAM), and Flash- or Read Only Memory (ROM) devices.