SIM platform hosts digital rights management

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 15, 2006

M-Systems and Openbit have announced content licensing services for deployment on high-density SIM cards powered by M-Systems' MegaSIM platform.

M-Systems and Openbit have announced content licensing services for deployment on high-density SIM cards powered by M-Systems' MegaSIM platform.

The combination of high-density storage and Openbit's licensing services is set to allow conditional access to licensed applications, ultimately enabling smarter mobile services.

Openbit selects top applications and assembles them into a pack, including games, travel, utility, fun and imaging applications compatible with the latest smartphones and feature phones.

Openbit's licensing services enable subscribers to choose the content or applications they want, the licence term and the means of payment, while protecting software copyrights.

Leveraging M-Systems' Flash expertise with its field-proven M-SafeT crypto core technology, globally trusted in millions of smart cards, the MegaSIM platform, incorporating M-Systems' TrueFFS Flash file management, combines high-density Flash storage (64Mbyte to 1Gbyte), processing power, high-speed data protocols and crypto functionality.

M-Systems' MegaSIM platform far enhances typical SIM architecture while maintaining full compatibility with legacy industry standards.

SIM cards powered by M-Systems' MegaSIM platform, such as M-Systems' M-SIM MegaSIM series, will provide MNOs with an intuitive, ubiquitous interface and a high-density, high-speed platform.

By deploying these SIM cards, MNOs can increase revenue streams, while at the same time offer a new sales channel for software developers and, last but not least, a smarter mobile usage experience for subscribers.

"Implementing our licensing services on M-Systems' high-density MegaSIM platform will enable subscribers to receive exactly the content they want at suitable payment terms", said Arto Lehtonen, Chief Executive Officer of Openbit.

"Copyright protection and legal sharing of applications will assure content providers that they will receive the remuneration due them for supplied content".

"By offering high-density Flash memory, smart card security, high performance and processing power all within the SIM, M-Systems' MegaSIM platform brings a unique value proposition to the mobile ecosystem", said Simone Cavallo, General Manager of M-Systems' MNO Division.

"The combination of Openbit's content licensing expertise and M-Systems' MegaSIM platform for high-density SIM cards provides the means to conveniently store and safeguard content and applications for the subscriber, making mobile services smarter".