Patent ID: 8588850

Claim:
A Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC), comprising: an interface for exchange of messages with a user device portion of a mobile station; memory for storing information; and a processor coupled to the interface and the memory; wherein: the processor is configured to: monitor the interface for arrival of event messages indicating occurrence of events in the life of data call connections for the mobile station via a mobile communication network, an event message being sent from the user device without being triggered by the UICC, receive the event messages from the user device via the interface, and process the received event messages for operation of the UICC; and the event messages received from the user device via the interface include a data call in-progress event message generated when either the UICC or an application running on the user device portion of the mobile station requests a data call, while another data call connection with the mobile communication network is already in progress.