Patent ID: 7873390

Claim:
A cellular phone comprising: a wireless transceiver circuit for transmitting and receiving voice communications and for receiving data; a digital processor; and a memory storing application program code which when executed on the digital processor causes the cellular phone to provide predetermined functionality to the user of the cellular phone, wherein said predetermined functionality is speech recognition, said predetermined functionality having basic features and having enhanced features that are in addition to the basic features, said application program code including a software switch for toggling back and forth between a first state and a second state, wherein the first and second states represent a deactivated state in which the cellular phone provides said basic features to the user without providing said enhanced features and an activated state in which the cellular phone provides the enhanced features, and wherein toggling from the first state to the second state is accomplished by receiving through the wireless transceiver circuit a transmitted key that was sent by a remote source to that cellular phone.