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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Friedrich Wichmann, Paderborn, DE;
Assignee:
Orga Kartensysteme GmbH, Paderborn, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/32 ; H04Q 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/32 ; H04Q 7/20 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for the management of data for the operation of a communications network has a message unit for transmitting and receiving short messages to and from a smart card. The apparatus also has a central management unit. The central management unit has a database that stores smart card-specific data and that stores application-specific data relating to applications stored on the smart card. The number of free memory fields available for an application on the smart card can be determined at any time.