CN102301354A - System and method for managing a wireless device from removable media with processing capability - Google Patents

Abstract

Systems and methods for managing a removable media wireless device with processing capabilities are described. One aspect may include a system for operating the radio hardware of a wireless device from a media device, comprising: a media device including: a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a radio host-side peer layer adapted to operate on the memory and the processor, and adapted to communicate with the radio hardware of the wireless device.

Description

Systems and methods for managing wireless devices from removable media with processing capabilities

Cross References to Related Applications

This application claims priority to U.S. Patent Application No. 12/386,208, filed April 14, 2009, which claims U.S. Provisional Patent Application Nos. 61/206,454, 61/206,453, and 61, filed January 30, 2009 /206,427 and the priority of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/206,797, filed February 4, 2009, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

technical field

The present invention relates to systems and methods for managing wireless devices from removable media with processing capabilities.

Background technique

Current wireless device designs operate through all the software layers located in the handset utilizing the main processor and accompanying radio hardware. Applications and operating environments depend on the hardware architecture of each particular phone. If the user is to change to a mobile phone with some hardware architecture changes, the user applications and operating environments on each mobile phone lose portability and compatibility.

Systems and methods for managing wireless devices from removable media with processing capabilities are desirable. This makes the operating environment and applications independent of the wireless radio hardware implemented on the wireless handset. The removable media with the processor and installed software can be connected to any other wireless handset with a different wireless radio hardware configuration and still function properly.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method and system that may include a remote processor package housed in a removable medium that accesses a wireless radio modem in a wireless device, wherein the access is via a communication link happens. In one aspect, the present invention can provide a remote processor package system contained in a removable medium.

An aspect may include a system for operating radio hardware of a wireless device from a media device, comprising: a media device including a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; and a radio host-side peer-to-peer layer adapted to operate on the memory and operating on the processor, and adapted to communicate with radio hardware of the wireless device. Another aspect may include a method of operating radio hardware of a wireless device from a media device, comprising: emulating on said media device a hardware interface that will communicate with an operating environment; mapping radio hardware of the wireless device using a radio API so that the runtime and applications operate as if directly connected to the hardware; and executing the applications and runtime on the radio hardware as if the hardware were directly connected to the media device. Another aspect may include a system for operating radio hardware of a wireless device from a media device, comprising: a wireless device including a processor, memory coupled to the processor, radio hardware coupled to the processor, and a radio An API, the radio API is adapted to run on the memory and the processor, to communicate with radio hardware of the wireless device, and to communicate with the media device.

Description of drawings

Features and other aspects of embodiments of the invention are set forth in the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 illustrates a radio modem control block diagram of a typical wireless handset;

2 illustrates a radio modem control block diagram for a processor in a removable media device in accordance with one aspect of the systems and methods of the present invention;

3A illustrates a flow diagram for a host peer-to-peer radio API in accordance with one aspect of the systems and methods of the present invention;

3B illustrates an SMS flow diagram of the host peer-to-peer radio API for SMS messages in accordance with an aspect of the systems and methods of the present invention;

4 illustrates a host processor and a wireless radio handset according to an aspect of the systems and methods of the present invention; and

Figure 5 illustrates a block diagram of a removable media device hardware design.

Detailed ways

Now, various embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, a typical architecture of a wireless handset 101 includes a processor 102 located in the handset. Current wireless handset designs 101 have all software layers stored in the handset utilizing the main processor and accompanying radio hardware 107 . The current wireless handset design 101 includes software layers for applications 103 , operating environment 104 , wireless radio hardware framework 105 , and embedded operating system kernel 106 , all of which reside in the wireless handset 101 . Additionally, the current wireless handset design 101 includes a microphone 110 connected to an audio codec 109 connected to the main processor 102 . The audio codec 109 is then connected to the speaker 108 .

As shown in FIG. 2 , an aspect of the present invention may include a radio host-side peer-to-peer layer 203 located on a removable media device 202 below the radio hardware framework layer 105 of the wireless. Other aspects may include removable media devices 202 conforming to SD, microSD, SIM, MMC, or SAM form factors. Other aspects may include wireless radio hardware compliant with GSM or CDMA standards. The wireless device 201 may implement an audio API 205 that maps commands to GSM or CDMA hardware. The radio API 205 can virtually map the GSM or CDMA hardware devices on the wireless handset to the processor on the removable media device 202. Radio API 205 is a dedicated wrapper routine that can add additional information to standard AT commands for wireless modem hardware 107 over communication link 206. Other aspects may include an embedded OS 106 running on the removable media device.

Figure 5 illustrates a block diagram of a removable media device hardware design. One aspect of removable media device 202 may include processor 502, as well as RAM 501, ROM 503, and communication link 206.

In one aspect, the main processor functions of the handset 201 can be relocated to the removable media device 202 . This removable media device 202 is connectable to the main handset 201 via a communication link 206 . In wireless device 201, wireless radio 107 may be controlled by base processor 204 in handset 201 implementing radio API 205. The base processor 204 in the handset may be connected by a communication link 206 to the main processor 502 in the removable medium 202 on which the user interface and application 103 are running. The radio host-side peer-to-peer layer 203 implemented under the hardware control framework 105 may cause the runtime environment 104 or application 103 to execute on the removable medium 202 as it executes on the main processor 204 in the wireless handset 201 . The radio host-side peer layer 203 can use the radio API 205 to map the hardware in the wireless handset 201. Radio API 205 may include radio and network error standard definitions for error handling sequences. The radio host side peer layer 203 can be used as a virtual hardware device. The radio host-side peer layer 203 may receive hardware commands from the device driver and place TCP/IP wrappers on the hardware commands. The radio host side peer layer 203 can then send a TCP/IP wrapped hardware command to the radio API 205 on the handset side. The radio API 205 can remove the TCP/IP wrapper and send the command to the hardware device 107 in the wireless handset 201. During the boot sequence, the radio host side peer layer 203 may negotiate with the radio API 205 on the handset 201 side to determine what devices are supported and what device drivers to install in the removable media device 202 . During negotiation, the radio API 205 on the handset 201 can send to the host peer layer 203 what hardware and capabilities the handset 201 is equipped with. The radio host peer layer 203 may then load the appropriate drivers on the removable media device 202 corresponding to the handset's hardware configuration.

On the one hand, the runtime environment 104 in the removable media device 202 can register the handset 201 with the network or obtain network information from the radio hardware 107 by sending commands to the radio host peer layer 203, while the radio host peer layer 203 uses communication The logical ports on the link 206 are communicated through the radio API 205 to the base processor 204 on the wireless handset 201. In one aspect, communication link 206 may be a bus, such as USB. In other aspects, communication link 206 may be a wireless connection. In other aspects, communication link 206 may be a high-speed bus. Others include, but are not limited to, USB, SD, microSD, SIM, SAM, and MMC as communication link 206 . This API 205 can translate the command into a command to the wireless radio modem hardware 107 to register or get network information. Acknowledgments may be sent back to the API logical port, and back to the radio host peer layer 203, and upstream back to the software layer with the reply.

Making a voice phone call from an application 103 running on the removable media device 202 can be accomplished by appending the calling number to the command sent to the radio host peer 203, which uses the The logical port 207 communicates to the base controller on the wireless handset 201 via the radio API 205. This API 205 can translate the command into a command to the wireless radio modem hardware 107 to make a call to the number. If successful, the voice channel to speaker 108 and microphone 110 may be routed by radio codec 109 to link to wireless radio modem 107 . A success or failure message may be sent back to the API logical port 205, and back to the radio host peer layer 203, and upstream back to the software layer requesting the service. To terminate the call, the application 103 can send a radio API 205 command through the same path to terminate the radio call. On the other hand, the handset 201 may appear as a device or slave to the removable media device 202 when a call is made, but the handset 201 may still need to execute the radio API program 205 or monitor the radio hardware 107 for incoming calls or SMS messages. On the other hand, the handset 201 may still contain a base processor 204, or baseband processor, to handle real-time processes such as monitoring the network and relaying commands from the radio API 205 to remote processes.

On the other hand, sending an SMS message can be similar to making a call, where the radio API 205 sends an SMS to the wireless handset base processor 204, with the number and message payload to send. The radio API 205 can reply to the application with a success or error code.

According to one aspect, the flowcharts in FIGS. 3A and 3B illustrate the process of sending an SMS message. First, processing begins 301 and the host peer application waits 302 for user input or request. If such a request exists 303, the host peer application extracts 304 the request type and any data to be processed. Next, data is sent 305 to the host peer daemon. The host peer daemon examines the data 306 to determine whether it is a command or an event 307 . If the data is an event, the host peer device daemon returns an event code 308 to the host peer application. If the data is a command, the host peer device daemon encapsulates the AT command and data for forwarding 309 . Next, the host peer daemon sends the encapsulated AT commands and data 310 to the handset via the communication link. The host peer device daemon then waits for an event or response 311 from the phone. If an event 312 is received from the handset, the host peer device daemon returns to check for more data received from the host peer application. If no event is received 313, the handset receives encapsulated AT commands and data 314 via the communication link. Next, the phone sends 315 AT commands to the baseband processor. The baseband processor then waits 316 for an event or response from the wireless network. If no event 317 is received, continue to wait for an event. If an event is received, the baseband processor sends an AT event or error 318 back to the host peer application over the communication link. The process of sending the SMS message is now complete 319 .

The HSPDA or GPRS network can be accessed by sending radio API commands to set up the Internet network. Once the network is set up, the base controller in the handset 204 can set up a TCP/IP network bridge 207 that connects the OS 106 on the removable media device 202 to the Internet via the TCP/IP bridge 207 to the wireless radio modem 107. The OS 106 on the removable media device 202 can see the wireless radio modem 107 as a modem device. Web browsers and Internet applications can then use this service.

FIG. 4 shows a removable media device 202 and a wireless radio handset 201 implementation.

On the one hand, the OpenMoko Neo Free Runner phone can be used, but any hardware configuration is possible. In other aspects, the phone application and runtime can be removed and replaced with radio API 205 . Among other things, the Samsung S3C2443 development board can be used as the removable media device 202.

In other respects, Linux can be selected as the open source operating system 106 . Other available operating systems may include, but are not limited to, or be limited to Win CE, Symbian, or any other embedded operating system. Another aspect may include X-Window 402, but any other graphics system may be used. On the other hand, MatchBox can be included as the runtime environment, but any runtime environment 104 can be used, such as Android, QT, MontaVista, Openmoko, or any other runtime environment.

On the one hand, radio hardware 107 may not be present on removable media device 202 ; instead, radio driver 404 may pass radio commands to host peer API or daemon 401 . In other aspects, the radio driver 404 can control the virtual hardware 406 using the radio API 205 in the remote handset 201. The wireless radio handset 201 may include an OS 408 and drivers 409. The removable media device 202 may have a USB drive 403 . The flow of information from applications 103 that require access to radio hardware 107 is shown by the sequence of arrows and numbered bubbles shown in FIG. 4 . The sequence is as follows, including when the SMS application sends an SMS message:

The user can complete the SMS message, and the sent command can be executed, as indicated at 451, and the application can send an AT command with data to the radio driver software.

The radio driver software driver on the removable media device might not have the wireless modem hardware. Instead of sending directly to the hardware, as shown at 452, the radio driver software can send commands to the host peer API or daemon software.

The host peer API can encapsulate commands and data into TCP/IP packets and, as shown at 453, can send the packets to the communication link.

The removable media device can act as if the wireless handset is a CDC RNDIS/Ethernet device and, as shown at 454, can send a TCP/IP packet to the wireless handset at a certain port number.

As shown at 455, the wireless handset can receive packets and can send packets to a radio API running on the wireless handset baseband processor.

The radio API on the wireless handset can listen on TCP/IP at a certain port number. Once the packet is received, the radio API may remove AT commands and data from the packet, as indicated at 456 . Since there may be differences in AT commands for different radio hardware, the radio API can check if this command is directly supported by this radio hardware, and perform the necessary command changes if it supports the hardware command set. Thus, different hardware configurations can still work because the radio API performs compatibility changes through AT commands.

The wireless radio modem hardware may receive the command, as shown at 457, and may execute the error code, and may return the error code to the calling application by reversing the information flow (eg, step 457 back to step 451).

Advantages of embodiments of the present invention may include one or more of the following: (1) the cost of the handset may be lower and may require shorter development time since the handset only needs to implement the radio API with a lower performance processor; ( 2) There may be no need to develop user interfaces, runtimes, and applications for mobile phones because they are already implemented in removable media devices.

On the other hand, applications and runtimes can run on any handset that implements the radio API. On the other hand, applications and runtime environments are portable between all handsets implementing the radio API without changes to their code.

On the one hand, all applications and data stored in the removable media device are portable and can run on any handset that implements the radio API. On the other hand, even when transferring a removable media device to a handset with a different hardware design, as long as the radio API is implemented, users can keep their applications and data.

While exemplary embodiments have been shown and described in detail herein, it should be noted, and those skilled in the art will understand, that there may be numerous modifications and other embodiments equivalent to those explicitly shown and described. For example, the scope of the present invention is not necessarily limited to all instances where the steps described above are performed in the order described. Rather, unless expressly stated otherwise, the terms and expressions used herein are for the purpose of description, not limitation. Accordingly, the invention is not to be limited to the particular embodiments shown and described (or the terms or expressions used to describe them), but only by the scope of the claims.

Claims (119)

1. system from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device, this system comprises:

Wireless device comprises:

Processor;

Storer is coupled to described processor;

Radio hardware is coupled to described processor; And

Radio API is applicable on described storer and described processor and moves, and is applicable to

Communicate by letter with the described radio hardware of described wireless device, and be applicable to and described media device

Communication.

2. the system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said radio API is applicable to the radio host side peer layer of described media device and communicates by letter.

3. the system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said radio API is applicable to operation finger daemon program.

4. the system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said radio API is applicable to by communication link and communicates by letter with described media device.

5. system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said communication link is a data bus.

6. system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said communication link is wireless.

7. the system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said radio API is applicable to described media device and sends data to dispose one or more settings of described radio hardware.

8. the system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said radio API is applicable to from described media device and receives data to operate described radio hardware.

9. system from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device, this system comprises:

Media device comprises:

First memory;

Processor is coupled to described first memory; And

Radio host side peer layer is applicable on described processor and described first memory

Operation;

Wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to the radio hardware of described wireless device communicates by letter.

10. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said media device is coupled to described wireless device removedly.

11. system as claimed in claim 10, wherein said media device is mechanically connected to described wireless device.

12. system as claimed in claim 10, wherein said media device adheres to the form factor of SIM, SAM, SD, little SD or USB Dongle.

13. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said media device is the removable media card.

14. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said first memory is RAM.

15. system as claimed in claim 14, wherein said media device comprises second memory, and wherein said second memory is ROM.

16. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to by communication link communicates by letter with the radio hardware of described wireless device.

17. system as claimed in claim 16, wherein said communication link is a data bus.

18. system as claimed in claim 16, wherein said communication link is wireless.

19. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said processor is applicable to the operation embedded OS.

20. system as claimed in claim 19, wherein said embedded OS is Linux, Win CE or Symbian.

21. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said processor is applicable to operation embedded graphic engine, is used to provide graphical user interface.

22. system as claimed in claim 21, wherein said embedded graphic engine is X-Windows.

23. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said processor is applicable to the embedded running environment of operation.

24. system as claimed in claim 23, wherein said running environment are MatchBox, Android, QT, MontaVista or Openmoko.

25. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to the radio API of described wireless device and communicates by letter.

26. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to operation finger daemon program.

27. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to and uses application layer protocol to communicate by letter with the radio hardware of described wireless device.

28. system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to from described media device and transmits the radio hardware order data to operate the radio hardware of described wireless device to described wireless device.

29. system as claimed in claim 9, the radio hardware of the described wireless device of wherein said radio host side peer layer emulation.

30. system as claimed in claim 29, wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to transmit with one or more radio hardware for the radio hardware of described wireless device to described wireless device from described media device corresponding data is set.

31. system as claimed in claim 30, wherein said radio hardware setting comprises and frequency, channel or power corresponding setting.

32. the system from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device comprises:

Wireless device comprises:

First processor;

First memory is coupled to described first processor;

Radio hardware is coupled to described first processor; And

Radio API is applicable on described first memory and described first processor and moves, and is applicable to the described radio hardware of described wireless device and communicates by letter; Media device comprises:

Second processor;

Second memory is coupled to described second processor; And

Radio host side peer layer is applicable on described second memory and described second processor and moves; And

The described radio API of wherein said wireless device is applicable to the described radio host side peer layer of described media device and communicates by letter, and the described radio host side peer layer of described media device is applicable to the described radio API of described wireless device and communicates by letter.

33. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said wireless device is a cell phone.

34. system as claimed in claim 33, wherein said cell phone is OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner.

35. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said radio hardware comprise CDMA or GSM antenna.

36. system as claimed in claim 35, wherein said radio hardware are used for receiving and sending CDMA, GPRS, GSM, bluetooth or Wi-Fi signal.

37. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said processor is a baseband processor.

38. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said wireless device also comprises one or more peripherals, is applicable to by described processor operation.

39. system as claimed in claim 38, at least one in the wherein said peripherals are microphone or loudspeaker.

40. system as claimed in claim 38, at least one in the wherein said peripherals is applicable to from the user and receives input.

41. system as claimed in claim 40, at least one in the wherein said peripherals are key plate, operating rod, button or camera.

42. system as claimed in claim 40, at least one in the wherein said peripherals are audio frequency apparatus.

43. system as claimed in claim 38, at least one in the wherein said peripherals are wireless network interface devices.

44. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said wireless device also comprises the hardware configuration module, is used to store with the one or more radio hardware that are used for described radio hardware corresponding data are set.

45. system as claimed in claim 44, wherein said radio hardware setting comprises and frequency, channel or power corresponding setting.

46. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said radio API are applicable to operation finger daemon program.

47. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said radio API is applicable to by communication link and communicates by letter with described media device.

48. system as claimed in claim 47, wherein said communication link is a data bus.

49. system as claimed in claim 47, wherein said communication link is wireless.

50. being applicable to, system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said radio API send the one or more settings of data with the described radio hardware that disposes described media device.

51. being applicable to from described media device, system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said radio API receive data to operate described radio hardware.

52. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said media device is coupled to described wireless device removedly.

53. system as claimed in claim 52, wherein said media device is mechanically connected to described wireless device.

54. system as claimed in claim 33, wherein said media device adheres to the form factor of SIM, SAM, SD, little SD or USB Dongle.

55. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said media device is the removable media card.

56. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said second memory is RAM.

57. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said media device comprises the 3rd storer, and wherein said the 3rd storer is ROM.

58. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said second processor is applicable to the operation embedded OS.

59. system as claimed in claim 58, wherein said embedded OS is Linux, Win CE or Symbian.

60. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said second processor is applicable to operation embedded graphic engine, is used to provide graphical user interface.

61. system as claimed in claim 60, wherein said embedded graphic engine is X-Windows.

62. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said second processor is applicable to the embedded running environment of operation.

63. system as claimed in claim 62, wherein said running environment are MatchBox, Android, QT, MontaVista or Openmoko.

64. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to operation finger daemon program.

65. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said radio host side peer layer is applicable to and uses application layer protocol to communicate by letter with the radio hardware of described wireless device.

66. system as claimed in claim 32, wherein said radio host side peer layer is programmed to transmit the radio hardware order data to operate the radio hardware of described wireless device.

67. as the described system of claim 66, described radio host side peer layer is applicable to that the one or more radio hardware that transmit with for the radio hardware of described wireless device are provided with corresponding data.

68. as the described system of claim 67, wherein said radio hardware setting comprises and frequency, channel or power corresponding setting.

69. the system from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device comprises: wireless device comprises:

The device that is used to handle;

The device that is used to store is coupled to the described device that is used to handle;

Be used to the device that sends and receive radio signals, be coupled to the described device that is used to handle; And

Be used for to hardware command unpack the dress device, be applicable on described device that is used to store and the described device that is used to handle and move, be applicable to the described device that is used to send of described wireless device and communicate by letter, and be applicable to described media device and communicate by letter with receiving radio signals.

70. the system from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device comprises: media device comprises:

The device that is used to handle;

The device that is used to store is coupled to the described device that is used to handle; And

The device that is used for the emulation radio hardware is applicable in described device that is used to store and institute

State on the device that is used to handle and move, and be applicable to the radio hardware of described wireless device and communicate by letter.

71. as the described system of claim 70, wherein said media device is coupled to described wireless device removedly.

72. as the described system of claim 71, wherein said media device is mechanically connected to described wireless device.

73. as the described system of claim 71, wherein said media device adheres to the form factor of SIM, SAM, SD, little SD or USB Dongle.

74. the system from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device comprises: wireless device comprises:

First device that is used to handle;

First device that is used to store is coupled to described first device that is used to handle;

Be used to the device that sends and receive radio signals, be coupled to described first device that is used to handle; And

Be used for the unpack device of dress of hardware command is applicable on described first memory storage and described first treating apparatus and moves, and is applicable to the described device that is used to send with receiving radio signals of described wireless device and communicates by letter;

Media device comprises:

Second device that is used to handle;

Second device that is used to store is coupled to described second device that is used to handle;

The device that is used for the emulation radio hardware is applicable to operation on described second device that is used to store and described second device that is used to handle; And

Being used for of described wireless device is applicable to the device that is used for the emulation radio hardware of described media device and communicates by letter the unpack device of dress of hardware command, and the device that is used for the emulation radio hardware of described media device be applicable to described wireless device be used for the unpack device of dress of hardware command is communicated by letter.

75. as the described system of claim 74, wherein said media device is coupled to described wireless device removedly.

76. as the described system of claim 75, wherein said media device is mechanically connected to described wireless device.

77. as the described system of claim 75, wherein said media device adheres to the form factor of SIM, SAM, SD, little SD or USB Dongle.

78. the method from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device comprises:

A. on described wireless device, shine upon the processor of described media device via radio API;

B. on described wireless device, receive grouping from the packing that comprises the radio hardware order of described media device;

C. on described wireless device to the grouping of the packing that comprises the radio hardware order dress of unpacking;

D. carry out described radio hardware order by the radio hardware of described wireless device.

79. it is, further comprising the steps of: as to communicate by letter with the radio host side peer layer of described media device by described radio API as the described method of claim 78.

80. it is, further comprising the steps of: operation finger daemon program on described radio API as the described method of claim 78.

81. as the described method of claim 79, wherein said communication steps further comprises: communicate by letter with described media device by communication link.

82. as the described method of claim 81, wherein said communication steps further comprises: by described radio API communication.

83. as the described method of claim 81, wherein said communication link is a data bus.

84. as the described method of claim 81, wherein said communication link is wireless.

85. it is, further comprising the steps of: as to send one or more configuration settings that data are used for described radio hardware to described media device from described wireless device as the described method of claim 78.

86. as the described method of claim 78, wherein said execution in step is carried out by the radio hardware of described wireless device.

87. the method from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device comprises:

A. on described media device the simulation hardware interface to communicate by letter with running environment;

B. by the radio host side peer layer on the described media device radio hardware of described wireless device is mapped to the hardware interface of described emulation, so that described media device is operated as being connected directly to radio hardware;

C. by the order of the packing of the radio host side peer layer on described media device radio hardware;

D. send the grouping of described packing to described wireless device by the radio host side peer layer on the described media device; And

E. on described media device, carry out described hardware command, seem that the radio hardware of described wireless device is connected directly to described media device.

88. as the described method of claim 87, wherein said media device is coupled to described wireless device removedly.

89. as the described method of claim 88, wherein said media device is mechanically connected to described wireless device.

90. as the described method of claim 88, wherein said media device adheres to the form factor of SIM, SAM, SD, little SD or USB Dongle.

91. as the described method of claim 87, wherein said media device is the removable media card.

92. it is, further comprising the steps of: as to communicate by letter with the radio hardware of described wireless device by communication link as the described method of claim 87.

93. as the described method of claim 92, wherein said communication steps further comprises: by described radio host side peer layer communication.

94. as the described method of claim 92, wherein said communication link is a data bus.

95. as the described method of claim 92, wherein said communication link is wireless.

96. it is, further comprising the steps of: operation finger daemon program on described radio host side peer layer as the described method of claim 87.

97. as the described method of claim 87, wherein said communication steps further comprises: use application layer protocol to communicate by letter with the radio hardware of described wireless device.

98. it is, further comprising the steps of: as to send the radio hardware order data to operate the radio hardware of described wireless device to described wireless device as the described method of claim 87.

99. it is, further comprising the steps of: send one or more radio hardware settings of the described radio hardware that is used for described wireless device to described wireless device from described media device as the described method of claim 87.

100. as the described method of claim 99, wherein said radio hardware setting comprises and frequency, channel or power corresponding setting.

101. as the described method of claim 87, wherein said execution in step is carried out by the processor of described media device.

102. the method from the radio hardware of media device operate wireless device comprises:

A. on described media device the simulation hardware interface to communicate by letter with running environment;

B. by the radio host side peer layer on the described media device radio hardware of described wireless device is mapped to the hardware interface of described emulation, so that described media device is operated as being connected directly to radio hardware;

C. by the order of the packing of the radio host side peer layer on described media device radio hardware;

D. send the radio hardware order of packing to described wireless device by the radio host side peer layer on the described media device;

F. on described wireless device, shine upon the processor of described media device, so that described radio hardware is operated as being connected directly to described processor via radio API;

G. on described wireless device, receive grouping from the packing that comprises the radio hardware order of described media device;

H. on described wireless device to the grouping of the packing that comprises the radio hardware order dress of unpacking;

I. carry out described radio hardware order by described wireless device.

103. it is, further comprising the steps of: operation finger daemon program on described radio API as the described method of claim 102.

104. it is, further comprising the steps of: as between described wireless device and described media device, to communicate by letter by communication link as the described method of claim 102.

105. as the described method of claim 104, wherein said communication steps further comprises: communicate by letter with described media device by radio API.

106. as the described method of claim 104, wherein said communication link is a data bus.

107. as the described method of claim 104, wherein said communication link is wireless.

108. it is, further comprising the steps of: as on described wireless device, to send data to dispose one or more settings of described radio hardware to described media device as the described method of claim 102.

109. as the described method of claim 102, wherein said media device is coupled to described wireless device removedly.

110. as the described method of claim 109, wherein said media device is mechanically connected to described wireless device.

111. as the described method of claim 110, wherein said media device adheres to the form factor of SIM, SAM, SD, little SD or USB Dongle.

112. as the described method of claim 102, wherein said media device is the removable media card.

113. as the described method of claim 102, wherein said communication steps further comprises: by described radio host side peer layer from described media device to wireless device communication.

114. it is, further comprising the steps of: operation finger daemon program on described radio host side peer layer as the described method of claim 102.

115. as the described method of claim 102, wherein said communication steps further comprises: use application layer protocol to communicate by letter with the radio hardware of described wireless device by described media device.

116. it is, further comprising the steps of: send one or more radio hardware settings of the described radio hardware that is used for described wireless device to described wireless device from described media device as the described method of claim 102.

117. as the described method of claim 116, wherein said radio hardware setting comprises and frequency, channel or power corresponding setting.

118. as the described method of claim 102, wherein said execution in step is carried out by the radio hardware of described wireless device.

119. as the described method of claim 102, wherein said execution in step further comprises: on described media device, carry out described radio hardware order, seem that the radio hardware of described wireless device is connected directly to described media device.

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