Patent ID: 8731472

Claim:
A portable mobile apparatus using short-range radio frequency (RF) communication with a service device providing a supplementary service to a user of the portable mobile apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a short-range RF communication module; a universal subscriber identity module (USIM) having an applet and a buffer; and an application having an interface, an operation module, and an USIM interface module, wherein the short-range RF communication module is configured to receive a first request message from a service device providing a supplementary service to a user of a portable mobile apparatus, and wherein the USIM is configured to receive the first request message, the first request message containing a first service information, from the short-range RF communication module, input, by the applet, the first service information into the buffer of the USIM, and generate a response message transmitted to the service device through the short-range RF communication module, and wherein the USIM interface module of the application is configured to poll the buffer periodically and read the first service information in the buffer into the application.