Patent ID: 7861037

Claim:
A method of launching an application using a removable media card, the method comprising: providing within a public partition of the removable media card, a first group of one or more configuration files comprising device configuration parameters that control the behavior of a portable device; providing within a secure partition of the removable media card, a second group of one or more configuration files comprising device configuration parameters that control the behavior of the portable device, the secure partition limiting access by the portable device to the configuration parameters stored in the secure partition; sensing the insertion of the removable media card in a media card receptacle of the portable device; upon the sensing of the insertion, causing the portable device to read the device configuration parameters of the first and second groups of the removable media card, one or more of the parameters indicating the application to be launched; determining whether to launch the application based on the existence of a relationship between the configuration parameters of the first group and the configuration parameters of the second group; and causing, in response to determining to launch the application, the application to be launched by the portable device.