Patent ID: 7246750

Claim:
A chip card, comprising: a micro-computer; a contact interface for transmission of contact data between a contact bank and the micro-computer; a first data register; and a contact-less interface for transmission of contact-less data between at least one antenna and the micro-computer; wherein the micro-computer includes: a data processor; and a memory device having sequences of instructions stored thereon, and wherein execution of the sequences of instructions by the data processor causes the data processor to perform the steps of: A. storing one of the contact and contact-less data upon reception in the first data register; B. processing said one of the contact and contact-less data stored in the first data register; C. halting processing of said one of the contact and contact-less data upon detecting reception of the other one of the contact and contact-less data; D. processing the other one of the contact and contact-less data that is newly received; and E. resuming processing of said one of the contact and contact-less data as stored in the first data register, after said step D.