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`Inventor: Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott, Toronto
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`(73) Assignee: Research In Motion Limited, Waterloo,
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`mobile station 102, an end user can have access to any andall
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`140 is coupled to SIM IF 142, it is coupled to controller 106
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`Alternatively, mobile station 102 may be a multiple-module
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`station block diagram of FIG. 1, RF transceiver circuitry 108
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`that may beinserted into a port on a laptop computer.In this
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`FIG.2 is a detailed block diagram of a preferred mobile
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`station 202. Mobilestation 202 is preferably a two-way com-
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`stations 200 within its geographic coveragearea.
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`Mobile station 202 will normally incorporate a communi-
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`system 211 is analogous to RF transceivercircuitry 108 and
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`skilled in field of communications, particular design of com-
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`munication subsystem 211 depends on the communication
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`network in which mobile station 202 is intendedto operate.
`Network access is associated with a subscriber or user of
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`mobile station 202 and therefore mobile station 202 requires
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`a Subscriber Identity Module or “SIM” card 262 to be
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`inserted in a SIM IF 264 in order to operate in the network.
`SIM 262 includes those features described in relation to FIG.
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`Patent Owner Exhibit 2003, Page 15
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`Patent Owner Exhibit 2003, Page 15
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`1. Mobile station 202 is a battery-powered device so it also
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`includesa battery IF 254 for receiving one or more recharge-
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`able batteries 256. Such a battery 256 provides electrical
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`202, and battery IF 254 provides for a mechanical and elec-
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`trical connection for it. The battery IF 254 is coupled to a
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`Mobile station 202 includes a microprocessor 238 (which
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`is one implementation of controller 106 of FIG. 1) which
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`controls overall operation of mobile station 202. Communi-
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`cation functions, including at least data and voice) commu-
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`211. Microprocessor 238 also interacts with additional device
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`subsystems such as a display 222, a flash memory 224, a
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`random access memory (RAM) 226, auxiliary input/output
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`(I/O) subsystems 228, a serial port 230, a keyboard 232, a
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`tions subsystem 240, and any other device subsy