Contact-free electronic label for mobile telephone
View Patent ↗Contact-free electronic labels for mobile telephones that can be, for example, associated with a support associated with each mobile telephone card. The electronic labels include a memory and controller for recording and reading, wholly or partly, data identifying the card and its characteristics, as well as data concerning different steps of the card distribution. The invention is applicable to silicon chip cards designed to be inserted in a mobile telephone handset.
1. A contactless electronic label for a telephone handset and/or a smart card adapted to be connected electrically to said telephone handset in order to constitute a mobile telephone apparatus, wherein said electronic label is associated with at least one of the two elements making up the mobile telephone apparatus and has associated therewith means for recording and reading information in said label identifying the element with which it is associated and information relating to different distribution steps through which said element passes.
2. A contactless electronic label according to claim 1 , wherein the information relating to the different distribution steps comprises codes identifying the different participants at each distribution step.
3. A contactless electronic label according to claim 2 , wherein the information relating to the different distribution steps comprises, in addition, codes identifying the status of transfers between the different participants.
4. A contactless electronic label according to claim 2 , wherein the information relating to the different steps of distribution of the smart card comprises, in addition, the serial number of the telephone handset with which the smart card is associated.
5. A contactless electronic label according to claim 2 , wherein the information relating to the different steps of distribution of the telephone handset comprises, in addition, information identifying the smart card with which the telephone handset is associated.
6. A contactless electronic label according to claim 1 , wherein the information relating to the different distribution steps comprises a call number of the subscriber, known by the acronym “MS-ISDN” for the expression “Mobile Station—Integrated Services Digital Number”.
7. A contactless electronic label for a smart card that is adapted to be electrically connected to a telephone handset to constitute a mobile telephone apparatus, wherein the label is associated with the smart card, and has associated therewith means for recording and reading information identifying the smart card that comprises the serial number of the manufacturer of the smart card.
8. A contactless electronic label according to claim 7 , wherein the information identifying the smart card comprises, in addition, the serial number of the smart card.
9. A contactless electronic label according to claim 7 , wherein the information identifying the smart card comprises, in addition, an international number of the subscriber known by the acronym “IMSI” for the expression “International Mobile Subscriber Identity”.
10. A contactless electronic label according to claim 9 , wherein the information identifying the smart card comprises, in addition, an “HLR” number identifying a database in which the “IMSI” number of the subscriber is listed, “HLR” corresponding to the acronym for the expression “Home Location Register”.
11. A contactless electronic label according to claim 7 , wherein the information identifying the smart card corresponds, wholly or partially, to information contained in a file in a memory of said smart card.
12. A contactless electronic label according to claim 11 , wherein the file in the memory of the smart card is a file known by the acronym “EF-ICC” for the expression “Entry File—Integrated Circuit Chip”.
13. A contactless electronic label for a telephone handset that is adapted to be electrically connected to a smart card to constitute a mobile telephone apparatus, wherein the label is associated with the telephone handset, and has associated therewith means for recording and reading information identifying the telephone handset that comprises the serial number identifying said handset.
14. A contactless electronic label according to claim 13 , wherein the information identifying the telephone handset corresponds, wholly or partially, to information contained in a file in a memory of said telephone handset.
15. An electronic smart card adapted to be associated with a mobile telephone handset, said smart card having an associated contactless electronic label having associated therewith means for recording and reading information identifying said smart card and information relating to different distribution steps through which said smart card passes.
16. The electronic smart card of claim 15 , wherein the information relating to the different distribution steps comprises codes identifying the different participants at each distribution step.
17. The electronic smart card of claim 16 , wherein the information relating to the different distribution steps comprises, in addition, codes identifying the status of transfers between the different participants.
18. The electronic smart card of claim 16 , wherein the information relating to the different steps of distribution of the smart card comprises, in addition, the serial number of the telephone handset with which the smart card is associated.
19. The electronic smart card of claim 15 , wherein the information relating to the different distribution steps comprises a call number of the subscriber, known by the acronym “MS-ISDN” for the expression “Mobile Station—Integrated Services Digital Number”.
20. A mobile telephone handset adapted to be associated with an electronic smart card, said handset having an associated contactless electronic label having associated therewith means for recording and reading information identifying said handset and information relating to different distribution steps through which said handset passes.
21. The mobile telephone handset of claim 20 , wherein the information identifying the telephone handset corresponds, wholly or partially, to information contained in a file in a memory of said telephone handset.
22. The mobile telephone handset of claim 20 , wherein the information relating to the different distribution steps comprises codes identifying the different participants at each distribution step.
23. The mobile telephone handset of claim 22 , wherein the information relating to the different steps of distribution of the telephone handset comprises, in addition, information identifying the smart card with which the telephone handset is associated.
24. The mobile telephone handset of claim 20 , wherein the information relating to the different distribution steps comprises a call number of the subscriber, known by the acronym “MS-ISDN” for the expression “Mobile Station—Integrated Services Digital Number”.
25. Packaging for a mobile telephone apparatus, including a contactless electronic label having means for recording and reading information identifying at least one of a telephone handset and a smart card that constitute components of said mobile telephone apparatus and information relating to different distribution steps through which said telephone handset and/or smart card passes.
26. A mobile telephone handset adapted to be associated with an electronic smart card, said handset also being associated with a contactless electronic label having means for recording and reading information identifying said handset, wherein the information identifying the telephone handset comprises the serial number identifying said handset.