Nokia Corporation

Matti Pärnänen

Lauri Paatero

Antti Vaha-Sipila

Vesa Hametvaara

Riku Pulkkinen

A method, a system and a terminal for processing data, wherein the data is transmitted from the external memory device being part of a system, to the terminal, wherein the data content is recognized by means of the new field added to the application area data file and basing on that, directed to an application area specific handler, where a new media type is generated by concatenating a identification of the data to a public and registered application area specific media type, and used to get the user application for the content and a directory where the content is saved to.

Method for directing data to a user application and related terminal and system

An improved system and method for safe booting an electronic device. In situations such as where a virus is infecting various devices within a network, the present invention provides an authentication centre with the ability to instruct a device on the network to safe boot. During the safe boot, it can be arranged such that no third party applications are run, only backup, restoration, or uninstallation of programs are possible, and/or only programs in the device's read-only memory are loaded. The present invention also provides a user with the ability to go through the boot process in a step-by-step manner.

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Tampere, Finland

Matti Pärnänen