Claims
- 1. An apparatus comprising an adapter, said adapter comprising:
a slot that receives a smart card; a connector; and a passive router that routes signals from the smart card to the connector.
- 2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a host conditional access module coupled to the adapter through the connector.
- 3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the host conditional access module further comprises an outgoing converter to convert an outgoing signal from a first format to a second format.
- 4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the first format of the signal is parallel, and the second format of the signal is serial.
- 5. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the host conditional access module further comprises an incoming converter to convert an incoming signal from a second format to a first format.
- 6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein the second format is serial and the first format is parallel.
- 7. An adapter comprising:
a slot to receive a smart card; a first converter to convert a serial signal from the smart card to a parallel signal; and a connector to connect to a conditional access module.
- 8. The adapter of claim 7 further comprising a second converter to convert a parallel signal from the conditional access module to a serial signal.
- 9. The adapter of claim 8, wherein the converted serial signal is sent to the smart card.
- 10. The adapter of claim 7, wherein the converted parallel signal is sent to the conditional access module.
- 11. A connector comprising:
a PCMCIA connector to form a connection between a PCMCIA card and a conditional access module; and a smart card reader to form a connection between a smart card and the conditional access module.
- 12. The converter of claim 11 further comprising a smart card slot to hold the smart card.
- 13. The converter of claim 12, further comprising a plastic insert that can be inserted into the smart card slot so that the connection between the smart card and the smart card reader is maintained.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims the benefit of the filing date of the Provisional U.S. Patent Application entitled “Method For Interfacing an NRSS-A Smart Card Within An NRSS-B ‘PCMCIA’ Slot”, application No. 60/140,292, filed Jun. 18, 1999.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60140292 |
Jun 1999 |
US |
Continuations (1)
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09585295 |
Jun 2000 |
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10762496 |
Jan 2004 |
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