Patent ID: 6994263
Filing Date: 2006-02-07
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An IC card capable of executing a plurality of applications corresponding to services, the IC card comprising: an interface for an external device; a memory unit operable to store information of the applications corresponding to the services; a switch that changes over to another service; and a CPU that executes the application corresponding to the service selected by the switch to provide the selected service to the external device by way of the interface; and a display unit operable to display a kind of the service provided to the external device; and wherein a main card body has a first thick plate-shaped main-body part and a second thin plate-shaped main-body part, a first surface of the main body is a continuous flat surface from the first main-body part to the second main-body part, and on a second surface side, the first main-body part protrudes; and wherein the switch and the display unit are disposed on the rising surface of a stepped part where the first main-body part protrudes on the second surface side.