US Patent 7232073 Smart card with multiple applications

One embodiment of the invention provides a smart card having multiple applications installed thereon. One of the multiple applications is designated as a default application which is activated whenever the card is reset. The default application is required to implement a first operation to provide a canonically ordered listing of the multiple applications on the card. The default application may further implement a second operation to allow one of the multiple applications to be selected for activation via an index into the listing.