Patent ID: 8424770

Claim:
A device for customizing a portable electronic entity of a batch of electronic entities, comprising: storage elements for storing a plurality of groups of customization data, at least one group of customization data comprising a customization profile associated with a type of portable electronic entity and defining general characteristics of a customization for said type of portable electronic entity; associating elements, for associating to the batch of electronic entities a plurality of said stored groups of customization data, communication elements for communicating with a non-rewritable memory of said portable electronic entity, for receiving a first identifier retained in said non-rewritable memory, said first identifier being at least a part of a message supplied by the portable electronic entity when it was powered up; selection elements for selecting at least one group of customization data according to the batch of electronic entities and the first identifier, at least one of the selected groups comprising the customization profile of said type of the customized entity; and customization elements for customizing said portable electronic entity according to each selected group of customization data.