Patent ID: 8971960
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for selecting a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card among a plurality of SIM cards in a mobile terminal, the apparatus comprising: a SIM manager configured to receive a user input of a specific code uniquely corresponding to one desired SIM card and to select a SIM card from among the plurality of the SIM cards using the specific code uniquely corresponding to one desired SIM card; and a controller configured to execute an attempt to establish an outgoing call to a counterpart user's mobile terminal using the SIM card selected by the SIM manager, wherein the specific code uniquely corresponding to the one desired SIM card is input by a user of the mobile terminal together with a mobile terminal number for the counterpart user's mobile terminal, wherein, when detecting an input to attempt to establish the outgoing call, the SIM manager is further configured to identify the specific code and the mobile terminal number from the user input, and to select the SIM card corresponding to the identified specific code, and wherein the specific code comprises at least one of a special character and an alphabet identified from the user input.