Patent ID: 7353044

Claim:
A method for processing digital data in a mobile telephone network comprising a mobile unit operatively connected to a smart card having an embedded chip, said embedded chip having an information processor and a data storage unit, said data storage unit including a reporter-type application program and a slave-type application program, said method comprising: receiving, by said reporter-type application program in said smart card, an event sent from said mobile unit; delegating, in response to receiving said event, execution of a smart-card operation to an additional application program stored in a data storage unit of a remote application server, said additional application program being a master-type application program, wherein said delegating comprises sending a message for processing from the reporter-type application to the master-type application of the remote application server via a channel of said mobile telephone network; receiving, by said slave-type application program, commands from the master-type application program using said mobile telephone network; executing said commands using said information processor of said embedded chip of the smart card; and retransmitting results of said executing commands to the master-type application program using said mobile telephone network.