Patent ID: 8060139

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a first communication path from a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) to a first device, the SIM including a wireless transceiver; transmitting information from the SIM to the first device via the first communication path to permit the first device to connect to a first network; establishing a second communication path from the SIM to a second device; transmitting information from the SIM to the second device via the second communication path to permit the second device to connect to a second network; connecting the second device to the second network; wherein the first network is a cellular radio-based network, the second network is an IEEE-based network, the second device can access the second network while the first device accesses the first network, at least one of the first device and the second device includes a wireless transceiver, at least one of the first communication path and the second communication path is a wireless communication path that directly connects the wireless transceiver of the SIM with the wireless transceiver of the first device or the second device, and connecting the second device to the second network includes: locating an IEEE-based network with which the second device can communicate; transmitting identification information to said IEEE-based network; and receiving authorization at the second device from the IEEE-based network.