Patent ID: 6760605
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: G06Q,G07F,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A telecommunication terminal comprising:a smart card providing at least one application, means of access to the card by a telecommunication network, means of access to the card from a microcomputer processing unit, and means for managing the accesses from the telecommunication network and/or the microcomputer which: operates in a first operating mode to keep the two access means active, to change to a blocking mode to momentarily block one of the means of access to the card from the microcomputer or from the network while leaving the other access open, and to put on stand-by commands arriving through the blocked access means; and operates in a second operating mode to temporarily deactivate one of the access means, so that the terminal functions exclusively in a smart card read mode or exclusively in a telecommunication terminal mode.