Euicc card storing short numbers by subscriber profile to notify a subscription management server

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017325084-A1
Application number	US-201515526371-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 10, 2015
Priority date	Nov 14, 2014
Publication date	Nov 9, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

The disclosure relates to the notification of an SM-SR subscription management server by an eUICC card or an eSE element. The card includes, in local memory, at least one short number (or “short code”), and more generally an address identifier, unique to a mobile-phone operator, wherein the number is associated with an operator subscriber profile within the secure card. The card is configured to retrieve, from the local memory, a short code associated with a subscriber profile in use to send, using the retrieved short code, a card status notification to the SM-SR server. In the absence of a short code, the card uses a unique international telephone number as the recipient of the notification.

First claim

1 . A secure element for connection to a mobile telephone network ( 10 ), comprising, in local memory, at least one address identifier (SC), the identifier being specific to a mobile network operator (MNO) and being associated with an operator's subscriber profile ( 21 , 22 ) in the secure element, and wherein said secure element is configured to recover from the local memory an identifier associated with a subscriber profile being used and, using said recovered identifier, to send a secure element status notification to a service management remote server (SM-SR) in a mobile telephone infrastructure.

2 . The secure element as claimed in claim 1 , in which the address identifier (SC) comprises a short number unique to a mobile network operator (MNO) or comprises an IP address specific to the operator or comprises a URL address specific to the operator.

3 . The secure element as claimed in claim 1 , comprising at least two address identifiers, for example two short numbers, each associated with a different subscriber profile, each identifier enabling sending of a notification to the subscription management server (SM-SR) when the associated subscriber profile is being used.

4 . The secure element as claimed in claim 3 , in which the two address identifiers designate two different short message service servers (SMS-C).

5 . The secure element as claimed in claim 3 , comprising, in local memory, a correspondence table ( 23 ) enabling association of each address identifier with each subscriber profile.

6 . The secure element as claimed in claim 5 , in which the correspondence table ( 23 ) memorizes each address identifier in association with an index, which index is memorized in a corresponding subscriber profile.

7 . The secure element as claimed in claim 5 , in which the correspondence table ( 23 ) memorizes each address identifier in association with the subscriber profile identifier.

8 . The secure element as claimed in claim 3 , in which each address identifier is memorized in the associated subscriber profile.

9 . The secure element as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a unique international telephone number ( 24 ) of the remote subscription management (SM-SR) server, said secure element being configured to recover said unique international telephone number from the local memory when no address identifier is associated with a subscriber profile being used and, using said recovered unique international telephone number, to send a secure element status notification to the remote subscription management (SM-SR) server.

10 . The secure element as claimed in claim 1 , configured:
to receive from the remote subscription management (SM-SR) server a command to update an address of the remote server in the local memory of the secure element, the update command including a unique international telephone number ( 24 ) of the secure routing unit and/or at least one address identifier, for example a short number (SC), associated with a subscriber profile ( 21 , 22 ) and designating the remote server, and to update, in the local memory of the secure element and in response to the update command, the unique international telephone number of the remote server and/or the at least one address identifier in association with a subscriber profile as indicated in the update command, so as to notify the subscription management server using the updated numbers.

11 . The secure element as claimed in claim 10 , in which the update command is similar to the “UpdateSMSRAdressingParameters” command defined in section 4.1.1.10 of the GSMA 12FAST.15 standard, augmented by at least one double-field associating an address identifier, for example a short number, with a subscriber profile identifier.

12 . The secure element as claimed in claim 1 , of secure card type.

13 . A method of communication in a mobile telephone network ( 10 ) using a secure element for connection to the mobile telephone network, the secure element comprising, in local memory, at least one address identifier (SC), the identifier being specific to a mobile network operator and associated with an operator subscriber profile ( 21 , 22 ), the method comprising, on reception of an event triggering notification, the following steps:
recovering ( 350 , 352 ), from the local memory an identifier associated with a subscriber profile being used, and using the recovered identifier, sending ( 358 ) a secure element status notification to a subscription management remote server (SM-SR) in a mobile telephone infrastructure.

14 . The method as claimed in claim 13 , in which the secure element
receives ( 306 ) from the subscription management remote server (SM-SR) a command to update an address of the remote server, the update command including an unique international telephone number ( 24 ) of the remote server and/or at least one address identifier, for example a short number (SC), associated with a subscriber profile ( 21 , 22 ) and designating the remote server, and updates ( 308 , 310 , 312 ), in its local memory and in response to the update command, the unique international telephone number of the remote server and/or the at least one address identifier in association with a subscriber profile as indicated in the update command, so as to notify the subscription management server using the updated numbers.

15 . A mobile telephone network infrastructure system comprising a subscription management server (SM) and comprising a plurality of subscriber terminals (ME) each equipped with a secure connection element as claimed in claim 1 for sending notifications to the subscription management server using an address identifier (SC), the identifier being specific to a mobile network operator.

16 . The system as claimed in claim 15 , in which the remote subscription management (SM-SR) server is configured to send a command to update an address of the remote server, the update command including a unique international telephone number of the remote server and/or at least one address identifier, for example a short number, associated with a subscriber profile and designating the remote server, so as to update, in the memory of the secure elements, the unique international telephone number of the remote server and/or the at least one address identifier in association with a subscription profile as indicated in the update command.

17 . The system as claimed in claim 15 , further comprising a short message service (SMS-C) server specific to a mobile network operator, the short message service server comprising, in local memory, a table ( 11 , 12 ) of correspondences between an address identifier, for example a short number, that is specific to said mobile network operator and an IP address of the remote subscription management (SM-SR) server.

18 . The system as claimed in claim 17 , comprising a plurality of short message service (SMS-C) servers associated with a plurality of respective mobile network operators, the short message service servers each comprising in local memory a table ( 11 , 12 ) of correspondences between an address identifier, for example a short number, that is specific to the associated operator and the same subscription management remote server (SM-SR).

19 . The secure element as claimed in claim 1 , comprising at least two address identifiers, for example two short numbers, each associated with a different subscriber profile, each identifier enabling sending of a notification to the subscription management server (SM-SR) when the associated subscriber profile is being used.

Assignees

• Oberthur Technologies

Inventors

• Larignon Guillaume
• Dumoulin Jerome

Classifications

• H04B1/3816

  Mechanical arrangements for accommodating identification devices, e.g. cards or chips; with connectors for programming identification devices · CPC title

• H04W60/005 Primary

  Multiple registrations, e.g. multihoming · CPC title

• H04L67/306 Primary

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04W60/00

  Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration · CPC title

• H04W12/00

  Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity · CPC title