Radio communications device, universal integrated circuit card and related method and communications device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9055401-B2
Application number	US-201313832838-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2013
Priority date	Dec 13, 2007
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

The present invention provides for a UICC interface and related interfacing method, for use in a mobile radio communications device and including an element enabling the UICC to provide an indication that at least one service requiring location data is present in the UICC, an element for UICC to receive notification that a source of location data is available, an element for allowing the UICC to initiate transfer of location data thereto, an element for the actual transfer of the location data to the UICC, and an element enabling the UICC to terminate the transfer of the location data, and wherein the location data can be provided from a GPS module or remotely in a contact-less manner.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile radio communications device comprising:
a source of geographical location data;
a notifier configured to notify a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) that a source of geographical location data is present;
a receiver configured to receive, from the UICC, a signal indicating that said UICC requires geographical location data;
a retriever configured to retrieve geographical location data from said source of geographical location data,…

Assignees

• Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong

Inventors

• Dong Olivier

Classifications

• H04W92/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G01S19/03

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W4/02 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06K19/07 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W4/029 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic