Patent ID: 8032182

Claim:
A communication system comprising: a wireless phone including a user input interface, and a first wireless transceiver; a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) that is plugged into the wireless phone, the SIM including storage, a second wireless transceiver and an application program interface, wherein when the application program interface does not find a phone side application program interface, the application program interface informs a wireless network via the first wireless transceiver, and in response, the wireless network directs the wireless phone to download and install the phone side application program interface; the wireless phone using a service-subscriber key stored in the storage of the SIM to access a plurality of services provided by the wireless network using the first transceiver according to a first communication protocol; the phone side application program interface, in response to a tactile user selection via a portion of a tactile user input interface, interacts with the application program interface of the SIM to operate the second wireless transceiver by at least one of: activating the second wireless transceiver, deactivating the second wireless transceiver, and tuning the second wireless transceiver; and the wireless phone communicates with a node using the second wireless transceiver according to a second communication protocol by way of the interaction between the phone side application program interface and the application program interface of the SIM.