MANAGING OPERATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON A COMPONENT LIKE A SIM CARD BEING PHYSICALLY ACCESSIBLE/ REMOVABLE

摘要

A system of one embodiment comprises a first component, e.g. a SIM card (12); and a second component, e.g. a battery (13) that, when in a first state, restricts physical access to the first component by a user, and when the second component is in a second state the second component permits physical access to the first component by the user. The system further comprises logic (11) that, responsive to the second component transitioning from the first state to the second state, triggers disabling (102) of at least one function (14) of the system while permitting at least a second function (15) of the system to remain enabled. The second function maybe one -or more -offline functions of the mobile device, like address book applications, calendar application, word processing, mp3 or music playing, etc,... In certain embodiments, the first component comprises a subscriber identity module (SIM) (22), and wireless communication (24) is disabled responsive to the second component transitioning to the second state.