Patent ID: 7620759

Claim:
A dual-purpose smart card: a standard ISO 7816 eight-pad array including a reset (Rst) pad and an I/O pad; digital storage media and first electronic circuitry compliant with ISO 7816 standards and connected to the pad interface, enabling the card apparatus to be used as a conventional smart card; an oscillator connected through a one-wire modem to the I/O pad, enabled to provide a modulated voltage on the I/O pad; and control circuitry enabled to control functions of the first electronic circuitry and the one-wire modem; wherein, with the Rst pad high the one-wire modem is inactive and the first electronic circuitry is active enabling the smart card to function as a standard smart card through the ISO 7816 interface with a conventional card reader, and with the Rst pad low, the first electronic circuitry is disabled, and the one-wire modem is enabled, providing a modulated voltage signal on the I/O pad.