Patent ID: 8856929

Claim:
A method of operating a wireless communication device comprising: in first micro-processing circuitry, processing first software to drive a user interface to present first information to a user and to drive a wireless transceiver to exchange first wireless signals transporting Internet Protocol (IP) communications with a wireless communication network; in the first micro-processing circuitry, processing the first software to provide an Application Programming Interface (API) to a second software in a second micro-processing circuitry; in the second micro-processing circuitry, processing the second software to communicate over the API with the first software in the first micro-processing circuitry, detecting a malicious condition related to the IP communications, and in response, generating a circuit transfer signal; in switching circuitry, responsive to the circuit transfer signal, de-coupling the first micro-processing circuitry from the user interface and from the wireless transceiver; and in the second micro-processing circuitry, processing the second software to drive the user interface to present second information to the user and to drive the wireless transceiver to exchange second wireless signals transporting non-IP communications with the wireless communication network.