Patent ID: 7631810

Claim:
A system for supporting a plurality of instances of the same application, the system comprising: a wireless smart device for communicating with a wireless reader, the wireless smart device including: (a) a plurality of instances of a same application for performing wireless transactions with an external device, each of the plurality of instances of the application having a different first application identifier and each of the plurality of instances of the application being of a same type, which has a second application identifier that is different from any of the first application identifiers, wherein the application is an entity that performs a function and wherein the instances are entities that perform the function; and (b) an application manager for identifying one of the instances associated with the second application identifier as active, for detecting a request from the wireless reader for performing a wireless transaction with an application, the request identifying the application by the second application identifier, and for communicating the request to the identified active instance and identifying the active instance using its respective first application identifier.