Patent ID: 7828212

Claim:
An apparatus for seating within a recessed battery compartment and a recessed smart card compartment of a smart card containing device, said smart card compartment having a vertical opening having a length and a width that is smaller along one or more dimension than the length and width of a production smart card that is designed to slide transversely into the smart card compartment, said apparatus comprising: a battery component; and a smart card component configured to couple to a smart card reader of the device, said smart card component having a length and a width, with at least one of the length and the width being smaller than the corresponding length and width of a production smart card and being sized for vertical insertion into the vertical opening of the smart card compartment; wherein the smart card component is coupled to an exterior surface of the battery component, with the smart card component being configured to be coupled to the recessed smart card compartment substantially simultaneously with the coupling of the battery component into the recessed battery compartment of the device.