Patent ID: 7922091

Claim:
An integrated circuit (IC) card configured to communicate with a mobile terminal having a processor, comprising: a plurality of electrical contacts; a memory to store information, the memory being configured to communicate with the processor via the plurality of electrical contacts, wherein at least one set of electrical contacts are configured to be allocated by the processor to support an operation in at least one protocol mode depending on a presence of a high speed protocol mode detected by the processor, wherein the processor is configured to detect the presence of the certain protocol mode by detecting a voltage level when the IC card is powered on, wherein the IC card is configured to automatically switch from a first high speed protocol to a second high speed protocol depending on the voltage level detected when the IC card is powered on, wherein the high speed protocol mode comprises a MultiMedia Card (MMC), Universal Serial Bus (USB), and Universal InterChip (USB_IC), and wherein the processor is configured to identify the presence of the high speed protocol mode by detecting a type of an IC card reader and initiate a session on a chosen protocol mode.