Telecom Italia

Pirelli & C. S. P. A.

Simonetta Mangiabene

Maura Turolla

Maurizio Marcelli

Paolo Gallo

Elisa Alessio

Marco Polano

Gianluca De Petris

Antonio Varriale

Davide Pratone

Barbara Silano

Giuseppe Mazara

Ilario Gregori

Nicola Portinaro

An office electronic apparatus is associated to an apparatus card and is able to use or provide a service by means of identification information; the identification information allows billing of the use or provision of the service. A mobile telephone terminal is associated to a subscriber card storing subscriber identification information. According to the method of the present invention, at least the subscriber identification information and preferably also subscriber authentication information are transferred from the mobile telephone terminal to an office electronic apparatus when the said mobile telephone terminal is in proximity of the office electronic apparatus, the transferred information is stored into the apparatus card of the office electronic apparatus, and the service is autonomously used or provided by the office electronic apparatus by means of the transferred information.

Use, provision, customization and billing of services for mobile users through distinct electronic apparatuses

A method is provided which allows a service to be enjoyed through a mobile telephone terminal without the need of paying for this service. This can be achieved by allowing a first subscriber to use the credit or subscription of a second subscriber. The subscriber identification cards at least of the two subscribers involved are provided with short range radio communication transceivers and establish a short range communication channel between them so that one card may request the other card to pay for this service and the other card may grant this request through this channel. Then the mobile telephone networks of the cards are informed of the granted request. Before, during and after the grant of the request, the subscriber identification cards remain active and operative in communicating together and with the associated terminals.

Method and subscriber identification card for using a service through a mobile telephone terminal using resources of another mobile telephone terminal

A method of operating via a smart card an access gateway between a local area network and a wide area network under the control of a management system includes the steps of providing in the smart card at least a first memory area containing configuration data for access to the wide area network that cannot be modified by the user and a second memory area adapted for storing personalized configuration data of the user, and providing in the access gateway a third memory area and storing the contents of the second memory area of the smart card in the third memory area.

Method and system for managing network access device using a smart card

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Turin, Italy

Simonetta Mangiabene