Patent ID: 8160644

Claim:
A processing device for the processing of an information signal, the device having a housing and having, first communication means disposed within the housing for receiving and/or transmitting the information signal, and having processing means for the processing of the information signal received and/or transmitted, and having second communication means disposed within the housing for the contactless retrieval of control information stored in a data carrier, wherein the data carrier is a SIM card, wherein the data carrier is disposed completely outside of the housing of the processing device and is adhesively attached to the housing of the processing device, and wherein the data carrier is configured to communicate wirelessly with the second communication means through a wall of the housing of the processing device, in which the processing of the information signal by the processing means can be influenced with the aid of the retrieved control information, wherein the first communication means are adapted to receive and to transmit a telephone signal and whose processing means are adapted to process the telephone signal received and to be transmitted, and in which the control information retrieved from the detachably connected data carrier by the second communication means identifies a telephone number of the user of the processing device and/or includes calling credit information.