WO2004051971A1 - Telephone portable ayant un microprocesseur amovible - Google Patents

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WO2004051971A1
WO2004051971A1 PCT/IB2003/005570 IB0305570W WO2004051971A1 WO 2004051971 A1 WO2004051971 A1 WO 2004051971A1 IB 0305570 W IB0305570 W IB 0305570W WO 2004051971 A1 WO2004051971 A1 WO 2004051971A1
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mobile phone
processing device
telephone network
sim card
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Reinhard Meindl
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W8/00—Network data management
    • H04W8/18—Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
    • H04W8/183—Processing at user equipment or user record carrier
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2250/00—Details of telephonic subscriber devices
    • H04M2250/14—Details of telephonic subscriber devices including a card reading device
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W8/00—Network data management
    • H04W8/22—Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W8/00—Network data management
    • H04W8/26—Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W88/00—Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices
    • H04W88/02—Terminal devices
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W92/00—Interfaces specially adapted for wireless communication networks
    • H04W92/16—Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices
    • H04W92/18—Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices between terminal devices

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  • the invention relates to a mobile phone for making telephone calls in a telephone network.
  • the invention further relates to a processing device for a mobile phone for the storing and processing of identification data necessary for identifying the user to the telephone network operator.
  • a mobile phone of this kind is known from, for instance, the commercially available mobile phone type 3310 made by Nokia.
  • the mobile phone is equipped with inputting means in the form of a keypad and a microphone, by means of which inputting information (speech information and/or text information) to be transmitted can be input.
  • An antenna and signal-processing means form communication means for the known mobile phone, with which the inputting information to be transmitted and any outputting information to be received can be communicated, via radio waves, to a transceiver station of the telephone network.
  • the received outputting information is reproduced either acoustically with a loudspeaker on the outputting means or visually with a display on the outputting means.
  • the mobile phone further comprises a processing device, which takes the form of a microcontroller and a memory, and which is designed for storing and processing program data in order to operate the inputting means and the outputting means of the mobile phone.
  • a so- called SIM card from a telephone network operator (e.g. T-Mobile, Mobilkom) has to be inserted in the mobile phone.
  • the SIM card also constitutes a processing device, which, however, is designed to store and process identification data in order to identify the user to the telephone network operator and enable the telephone charges to be billed.
  • a mobile phone in accordance with the invention exhibits the following features:
  • Input means for inputting input information to be transmitted, and communication means for transmitting input information to a telephone network and for receiving output information from the telephone network, and output means for outputting the received output information, and a processing device that can be inserted into the mobile phone and removed from the mobile phone by a user of the mobile phone, wherein the processing device is designed to store and process both identification data that is necessary for identifying the user to the telephone network operator, and program data that is necessary for operating the input means and/or output means of the mobile phone.
  • a processing device in accordance with the invention is characterized as follows:
  • a mobile phone that can be inserted into the mobile phone and removed from the mobile phone by a user, with memory means for storing identification data that is appropriate for identifying the user to the telephone network operator, and for storing program data that is necessary for operating input means and/or output means of the mobile phone, and with processing means for processing the identification data and program data in order to enable the making of calls with the mobile phone.
  • a mobile phone essentially comprises only an antenna with signal processing means, a keypad, a loudspeaker, a microphone (AID, D/A converter including amplifier) and, if applicable, a display, which elements are accommodated, together with a plug-in unit for the processing means, in a housing of the mobile phone.
  • the mobile phone thereby contains no microprocessor and can therefore be manufactured extremely cost-effectively.
  • both the identification data and the program data are processed with only one microprocessor.
  • the number of features of the mobile phone can advantageously be defined by means of the program data stored in the processing device.
  • the manufacturer of the mobile phone can therefore produce a very great number of identical mobile phones, which are then configured to become high-end or low-end mobile phones only through the insertion of the processing means by the user or purchaser. As a result, further costs can be saved in the manufacture of the mobile phone.
  • the communication means in the mobile phone are designed in such a way that they can be used for different telephone standards (e.g. GSM, GPRS, UMTS).
  • the processing device that can be inserted in the mobile phone is designed to implement the transmission protocol of the particular telephone standard and to configure (sending and receiving frequency, ...) the communication means of the mobile phone.
  • the input means and the output means can communicate with the processing device via a data bus, which may take the form of two cables, and the processing device has to be equipped with only very few terminal contacts.
  • Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a mobile phone.
  • Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a mobile phone 1 with a keypad 2 for inputting telephone numbers, combinations of letters for so-called SMS messages or for activating control commands in order, for example, to accept a call.
  • Mobile phone 1 is further equipped with a microphone 3 and first audio processing means 4.
  • the first audio processing means 4 is equipped with an A/D converter and further processing stages that are normal for processing digital audio information to process first audio information AI.
  • Keypad 2, microphone 3 and the first audio processing means 4 hereby form input means 5 for inputting the input information to be transmitted.
  • Mobile phone 1 is further equipped with an antenna 6 and signal processing means 7, which together form communication means 8, and which are designed for the contactless sending of the input information into a telephone network and for the contactless reception of any output information from the telephone network.
  • signal processing means 7 is equipped with a modulation and a demodulation stage, and a coding and a decoding stage, as are known from signal processing means of conventional mobile phones for the processing of an antenna signal AS that has been received and is to be sent.
  • Signal processing means 7 forms an analog "front end" and is hereby designed to send and receive in multiple frequency bands in order to support different telephone standards. Examples of telephone standards are the GSM standard, which is widely used in Europe, and the GPRS standard or the UMTS standard.
  • Mobile phone 1 is further equipped with a loudspeaker 9 and second audio processing means 10 and a display 11, which together form output means 12 for outputting the output information received by communication means 8.
  • the second audio processing means 10 hereby comprises a D/A converter stage and further processing stages that are normal for processing digital audio information, and is designed to deliver second audio information AI2 to loudspeaker 9. SMS messages received by communication means 8 can be shown as display information DI on display 11.
  • mobile phone 1 is further equipped with a battery 13, which is designed to supply all stages and means of mobile phone 1.
  • the connecting cables necessary for this purpose are not shown in Fig. 1.
  • Mobile phone 1 is further equipped with a SIM card holder 14, into which a SIM card 15 can be inserted.
  • SIM card 15 comprises a microprocessor and a memory stage, and has eight contact surfaces 16 to connect the microprocessor to the means and stages of mobile phone 1.
  • SIM card 15 forms a processing device, which is designed to store and process both identification data ID (e.g. telephone numbers, ...) for identifying the user to the telephone network operator, and the program data necessary for operating the input means and/or output means of the mobile phone.
  • the program data may hereby comprise e.g. the pixel information for representing a letter on display 11, or a decoding table indicating how the key information TI received by keypad 2 is to be interpreted.
  • mobile phone 1 can be produced for the entire world market in a design that is identical in principle, and that it is only through the insertion of the SIM card into the SIM card holder 14 that the telephone standard to be supported by mobile phone 1, the identification data ID which is necessary for the telephone network operator to identify the user, and the features of mobile phone 1 are defined.
  • Corresponding identification data ID and program data are stored in the memory stage of SIM card 15.
  • a conventional mobile phone comprises a microprocessor and a memory stage, wherein the microprocessor is designed to implement the program data stored in the memory stage.
  • the program data hereby defines the features of the mobile phone and, together with the signal processing means, the telephone standard supported by the mobile phone.
  • a conventional mobile phone is therefore already equipped with a microprocessor and is thus significantly more expensive to produce than the mobile phone 1 in accordance with the invention.
  • a SIM card in which a microprocessor and a memory stage are likewise contained, although these are provided only for communication of the identification data ID stored in the memory stage of the SIM card.
  • Mobile phone 1 therefore combines, in a completely novel manner, the functions of both known microprocessors, for which reason any communication between these microprocessors is dispensed with, and accelerated processing is obtained.
  • SIM card 15 is further designed to operate a dual-cable data bus 17, to which the signal processing means 7, the first audio processing means 4, the keypad 2, the display 11 and the second audio processing means 10 are connected. Transmitted via this dual-cable data bus 17 are the configuration information KI from SIM card 15 to signal processing means 7, the first audio information All from the first audio processing means 4 to SIM card 15 and signal processing means 7, the second audio information AI2 from signal processing means 7 to the second audio processing means 10, key information TI from keypad 2 to SIM card 15, and display information DI from SIM card 15 to the display 11.
  • signal processing means 7 could also be designed only to support one telephone standard, as a result of which mobile phone 1 could be produced significantly more cost effectively.
  • the microprocessor in SIM card 15 would enable both the functions of the mobile phone and the identification of the user or of the mobile phone to the telephone network operator.
  • a mobile phone in accordance with the invention does not have to be equipped with a display.
  • further stages and means of the mobile phone could also be connected to two-cable data bus 17.
  • the processing device that can be inserted into the mobile phone does not have to take the form of a SIM card.
  • the processing device could just as well take the form of a smart card or a transponder for the contactless communication of information.
  • mobile phone 1 may be reconfigured at any time by the insertion of a different SIM card.
  • a telephone network operator of a hotel chain or an airline could make mobile phones 1 available and, through the insertion by the user of his SIM card, these would obtain the features with which the user is familiar. Billing of the telephone charges may take place in the normal manner by means of the identification data ID stored in the SIM card.
  • a processing device in accordance with the invention may also be equipped with two microprocessors if both microprocessors can be removed from the mobile phone and inserted in the mobile phone by a user.

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L'invention concerne un téléphone portable (1) n'étant pas équipé d'un microprocesseur intégré permettant d'assurer les fonctions du téléphone portable (1). Ce n'est qu'au moyen de l'insertion d'une carte SIM (15) que le téléphone portable (1) devient opérationnel et est apte à faire des appels, tandis que l'information d'identification correspondante ID permettant d'identifier le téléphone portable (1) à l'opérateur du réseau téléphonique est mémorisée dans la carte SIM (15). Le téléphone portable (1) est, de ce fait, configuré pour l'utilisateur uniquement lorsque ce dernier l'achète.
PCT/IB2003/005570 2002-12-04 2003-12-02 Telephone portable ayant un microprocesseur amovible WO2004051971A1 (fr)

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