Patent ID: 8874169

Claim:
A method for the configuration of a communication device for making certain adaptions of the communication device, characterized by the following steps: a communication link is created from the communication device to an external configuration computer unit; identification data, which are related to the communication device, are transmitted from the communication device to the external configuration computer unit for the purpose of authentication of the communication device, with chip card-related identification features being transmitted as identification data, with the chip card-related identification features being assigned to a chip card for identification thereof, and with the chip card being assigned to the communication device, wherein the chip card is designed as a SIM card, the chip card is assigned an International Mobile Subscriber Identity as chip card-related identification feature, the chip card is assigned a chip card-related PIN, in particular a SuperPIN, as a chip card-related identification feature, and the International Mobile Subscriber Identity and the chip card-related PIN are transmitted, as identification data as two different chip-card related identification features, from the communication device to the external configuration computer unit; when authentication is successful, a configuration of the communication device is carried out, whereby configuration data are transmitted from the external configuration computer to the communication device and received there.