CN104902463B

CN104902463B - Mobile terminal, multi-card management method of virtual card terminal of mobile terminal and server

Info

Publication number: CN104902463B
Application number: CN201510267088.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 申世安; 车晓东
Original assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2015-05-22
Filing date: 2015-05-22
Publication date: 2020-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 2035-05-22
Also published as: CN104902463A

Abstract

The invention discloses a mobile terminal, a multi-card management method of a virtual card terminal of the mobile terminal and a server, and belongs to the technical field of mobile terminals. The multi-card management method of the virtual card terminal comprises the following steps: acquiring information of at least one authorized virtual SIM card stored in a cloud server; receiving a selected instruction of the virtual SIM card; sending a network access request signal containing the unique identification code of the mobile terminal to an operator server to which the selected virtual SIM card belongs; and when a signal which is returned by the operator server and allows network access is received, binding the selected virtual SIM card with the mobile terminal corresponding to the unique identification code. The invention gets rid of the limitation of the entity card terminal to the entity card, enables the user to store any number of SIM cards through the safe built-in storage, and simultaneously completely avoids the problem that the entity card is lost along with the loss of the mobile phone.

Description

Mobile terminal, multi-card management method of virtual card terminal of mobile terminal and server

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of mobile terminals, in particular to a mobile terminal, a multi-card management method of a virtual card terminal of the mobile terminal and a server.

Background

Most handsets on the market today access the operator's network and acquire services by inserting the SIM card of the own national operator. This is a very popular way to access a network with a mobile phone. The proposal is based on a new concept, namely a virtual card terminal. The virtual card terminal is explained first: the initial scheme of the mobile phone terminal is that a path for copying sim card information is reserved for a mobile phone, then sim card information which the mobile phone wants to access the network can be guided into a reserved secure storage in the mobile phone from the channel, and therefore the mobile phone terminal can access the network and obtain related services of an operator through the sim card information in the secure storage built in the mobile phone even under the condition that no sim card information exists. In addition, parameter information of a plurality of SIM cards can be imported in the secure storage through the SIM card channel, so that the corresponding SIM cards can be activated and selected to be used simultaneously by a single card or a plurality of cards through the UI interactive interface according to the requirements of people.

The concept of virtual card termination was introduced above, and the second concept, that is, cloud management of cards, is introduced here. Here, the cloud is a real server group. The server group can be logged in through a fixed account, and then corresponding contents in the server are browsed and a series of operations are carried out according to the scope specified by the corresponding authority. The premise is that you have a server group and then you have the right to log in the server group, which can be an account number, a biometric feature, etc., and these are all existing concepts.

Here, a third concept, namely over-the-air network access, is introduced, which is proposed by operators for some specific sim cards. The cards lack relevant network access parameters including information inside, so if the cards want to smoothly access a network distributed by an operator, a mobile phone needs to be inserted into the cards, network access parameters of the corresponding cards are acquired from a server in operation through a wireless network according to a network channel provided by the operator, and then the parameters are written into the sim card through the mobile phone, so that the sim card can smoothly acquire network access permission and successfully access the network. The advantage is also obvious, namely, as long as the user has the card, the user does not need to run to a business hall to deactivate the card, the user can independently complete the activation of the card at a place with a network, later, the concept needs to be introduced into the cloud loading parameter process of the virtual card of the virtual terminal, and the process is similar to the concept of the aerial network access of the current operator.

At present, the technology of accessing the network of the operator and acquiring the service by inserting the SIM card of the national operator has too many restrictions on the use of the user, the first use of the entity card is the restriction of the card slot, the number of the SIM cards which can be used by the general user at the same time can not exceed two, and the restriction of the card itself is the restriction, so the services such as network access, conversation and the like can not be performed by the card, and the requirements of the current user can not be met.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a mobile terminal and a multi-card management method and a server of a virtual card terminal thereof, which aim to achieve the aim of receiving network access service without an entity SIM and overcome the defects of the prior art that the entity SIM card is limited.

The technical scheme of the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a multi-card management method for a virtual card terminal, the method being applied to a mobile terminal, the method including:

acquiring parameter information of at least one authorized virtual SIM card stored in a cloud server;

receiving a selected instruction of the virtual SIM card;

sending a network access request signal containing the unique identification code of the mobile terminal to an operator server to which the selected virtual SIM card belongs;

and when a signal which is returned by the operator server and allows network access is received, binding the selected virtual SIM card with the mobile terminal corresponding to the unique identification code.

Preferably, the method further comprises:

logging in a user account of the cloud server through a preset authentication mode;

displaying parameter information of all effective virtual SIM cards under the logged-in account;

and when a selected instruction of the virtual SIM card is received, acquiring the parameter information of the selected virtual SIM card.

Preferably, the authentication method includes:

comparing the password input under the corresponding account with a preset password, and if the password is consistent with the preset password, judging that the authentication is passed; or

And matching the input biological characteristic information with the biological characteristic information which is subjected to the account verification safety matching in advance, and judging that the authentication is passed if the matching is successful.

Preferably, the method further comprises:

when the mobile terminal is inserted into the SIM card, acquiring parameter information of the SIM card;

and after receiving the synchronization instruction, uploading the acquired parameter information of the entity SIM card to an account corresponding to login of the cloud server.

Preferably, the unique identifier of the mobile terminal is a mobile equipment international identity IMEI and/or a mobile equipment identity MEID.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a multi-card management method of a virtual card terminal, the method being applied to an operator server, the method including:

receiving a network access request signal of a virtual SIM card containing a unique identification code of a mobile terminal, which is sent by the mobile terminal;

and judging whether the virtual SIM card is bound with other mobile terminals according to the unique identification code, if so, returning a network access limiting signal to the mobile terminal, and otherwise, returning a network access allowing signal to the mobile terminal and the terminal.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile terminal including:

the information acquisition module is used for acquiring parameter information of at least one authorized virtual SIM card stored in the cloud server;

the instruction receiving module is used for receiving a selected instruction of the virtual SIM card;

the signal sending module is used for sending the network access request signal containing the unique identification code of the mobile terminal to the operator server to which the selected virtual SIM card belongs;

and the binding module is used for binding the selected virtual SIM card with the mobile terminal corresponding to the unique identification code when receiving the signal which is returned by the operator server and allows network access.

Preferably, the mobile terminal further includes:

the account login unit is used for logging in a user account of the cloud server in a preset authentication mode;

the information display unit is used for displaying parameter information of all effective virtual SIM cards under the logged account;

and the information acquisition unit is used for acquiring the parameter information of the selected virtual SIM card when receiving the selected instruction of the virtual SIM card.

Preferably, the account login unit is further specifically configured to:

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a server including:

the signal receiving module is used for receiving a network access request signal of a virtual SIM card containing a unique identification code of the mobile terminal, which is sent by the mobile terminal;

and the signal returning module is used for judging whether the virtual SIM card is bound with other mobile terminals according to the unique identification code, if so, returning a signal for limiting network access to the mobile terminal, and otherwise, returning a signal for allowing network access to the mobile terminal and the terminal.

The invention provides a mobile terminal and a multi-card management method and a server of a virtual card terminal thereof, which get rid of the limitation of the entity card terminal on the entity card, enable a user to store any number of SIM cards through safe built-in storage, and simultaneously completely avoid worrying about the problem that the entity card is lost along with the loss of a mobile phone.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a diagram of a wireless communication system for the mobile terminal shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of a multi-card management method applied to a virtual card terminal of a mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of a multi-card management method applied to a virtual card terminal of a mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of backing up SIM card information to a cloud server according to one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a flowchart of a multi-card management method applied to a virtual card terminal of an operator server according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a flowchart of a method of acquiring virtual SIM card information in a cloud server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of a method of entering a virtual SIM card into a network according to one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary structure of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is an exemplary block diagram of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The principles and features of this invention are described below in conjunction with the following drawings, which are set forth by way of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

A mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, suffixes such as "module", "component", or "unit" used to denote elements are used only for facilitating the explanation of the present invention, and have no specific meaning in themselves. Thus, "module" and "component" may be used in a mixture.

Fig. 1 is a schematic hardware configuration of a mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of the present invention.

The mobile terminal 100 may include a wireless communication unit 110, an a/V (audio/video) input unit 120, a user input unit 130, a sensing unit 140, an output unit 150, a memory 160, an interface unit 170, a controller 180, and a power supply unit 190, etc. Fig. 1 illustrates a mobile terminal having various components, but it is to be understood that not all illustrated components are required to be implemented. More or fewer components may alternatively be implemented. Elements of the mobile terminal will be described in detail below.

The wireless communication unit 110 typically includes one or more components that allow radio communication between the mobile terminal 100 and a wireless communication system or network. For example, the wireless communication unit may include at least one of a broadcast receiving module 111, a mobile communication module 112, a wireless internet module 113, a short-range communication module 114, and a location information module 115.

The broadcast receiving module 111 receives a broadcast signal and/or broadcast associated information from an external broadcast management server via a broadcast channel. The broadcast channel may include a satellite channel and/or a terrestrial channel. The broadcast management server may be a server that generates and transmits a broadcast signal and/or broadcast associated information or a server that receives a previously generated broadcast signal and/or broadcast associated information and transmits it to a terminal. The broadcast signal may include a TV broadcast signal, a radio broadcast signal, a data broadcast signal, and the like. Also, the broadcast signal may further include a broadcast signal combined with a TV or radio broadcast signal. The broadcast associated information may also be provided via a mobile communication network, and in this case, the broadcast associated information may be received by the mobile communication module 112. The broadcast signal may exist in various forms, for example, it may exist in the form of an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB), an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) of digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H), and the like. The broadcast receiving module 111 may receive a signal broadcast by using various types of broadcasting systems. In particular, the broadcast receiving module 111 may receive digital broadcasting by using a digital broadcasting system such as a data broadcasting system of multimedia broadcasting-terrestrial (DMB-T), digital multimedia broadcasting-satellite (DMB-S), digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H), forward link media (MediaFLO @), terrestrial digital broadcasting integrated service (ISDB-T), and the like. The broadcast receiving module 111 may be constructed to be suitable for various broadcasting systems that provide broadcast signals as well as the above-mentioned digital broadcasting systems. The broadcast signal and/or broadcast associated information received via the broadcast receiving module 111 may be stored in the memory 160 (or other type of storage medium).

The mobile communication module 112 transmits and/or receives radio signals to and/or from at least one of a base station (e.g., access point, node B, etc.), an external terminal, and a server. Such radio signals may include voice call signals, video call signals, or various types of data transmitted and/or received according to text and/or multimedia messages.

The wireless internet module 113 supports wireless internet access of the mobile terminal. The module may be internally or externally coupled to the terminal. The wireless internet access technology to which the module relates may include WLAN (wireless LAN) (Wi-Fi), Wibro (wireless broadband), Wimax (worldwide interoperability for microwave access), HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access), and the like.

The short-range communication module 114 is a module for supporting short-range communication. Some examples of short-range communication technologies include bluetooth (TM), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), infrared data association (IrDA), Ultra Wideband (UWB), zigbee (TM), and the like.

The location information module 115 is a module for checking or acquiring location information of the mobile terminal. A typical example of the location information module is a GPS (global positioning system). According to the current technology, the GPS module 115 calculates distance information and accurate time information from three or more satellites and applies triangulation to the calculated information, thereby accurately calculating three-dimensional current location information according to longitude, latitude, and altitude. Currently, a method for calculating position and time information uses three satellites and corrects an error of the calculated position and time information by using another satellite. In addition, the GPS module 115 can calculate speed information by continuously calculating current position information in real time.

The a/V input unit 120 is used to receive an audio or video signal. The a/V input unit 120 may include a camera 121 and a microphone 1220, and the camera 121 processes image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing apparatus in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 151. The image frames processed by the camera 121 may be stored in the memory 160 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the wireless communication unit 110, and two or more cameras 1210 may be provided according to the construction of the mobile terminal. The microphone 122 may receive sounds (audio data) via the microphone in a phone call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, or the like, and can process such sounds into audio data. The processed audio (voice) data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the mobile communication module 112 in case of a phone call mode. The microphone 122 may implement various types of noise cancellation (or suppression) algorithms to cancel (or suppress) noise or interference generated in the course of receiving and transmitting audio signals.

The user input unit 130 may generate key input data according to a command input by a user to control various operations of the mobile terminal. The user input unit 130 allows a user to input various types of information, and may include a keyboard, dome sheet, touch pad (e.g., a touch-sensitive member that detects changes in resistance, pressure, capacitance, and the like due to being touched), scroll wheel, joystick, and the like. In particular, when the touch pad is superimposed on the display unit 151 in the form of a layer, a touch screen may be formed.

The sensing unit 140 detects a current state of the mobile terminal 100 (e.g., an open or closed state of the mobile terminal 100), a position of the mobile terminal 100, presence or absence of contact (i.e., touch input) by a user with the mobile terminal 100, an orientation of the mobile terminal 100, acceleration or deceleration movement and direction of the mobile terminal 100, and the like, and generates a command or signal for controlling an operation of the mobile terminal 100. For example, when the mobile terminal 100 is implemented as a slide-type mobile phone, the sensing unit 140 may sense whether the slide-type phone is opened or closed. In addition, the sensing unit 140 can detect whether the power supply unit 190 supplies power or whether the interface unit 170 is coupled with an external device. The sensing unit 140 may include a proximity sensor 1410 as will be described below in connection with a touch screen.

The interface unit 170 serves as an interface through which at least one external device is connected to the mobile terminal 100. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The identification module may store various information for authenticating a user using the mobile terminal 100 and may include a User Identity Module (UIM), a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM), and the like. In addition, a device having an identification module (hereinafter, referred to as an "identification device") may take the form of a smart card, and thus, the identification device may be connected with the mobile terminal 100 via a port or other connection means. The interface unit 170 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from an external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the mobile terminal 100 or may be used to transmit data between the mobile terminal and the external device.

In addition, when the mobile terminal 100 is connected with an external cradle, the interface unit 170 may serve as a path through which power is supplied from the cradle to the mobile terminal 100 or may serve as a path through which various command signals input from the cradle are transmitted to the mobile terminal. Various command signals or power input from the cradle may be used as signals for recognizing whether the mobile terminal is accurately mounted on the cradle. The output unit 150 is configured to provide output signals (e.g., audio signals, video signals, alarm signals, vibration signals, etc.) in a visual, audio, and/or tactile manner. The output unit 150 may include a display unit 151, an audio output module 152, an alarm unit 153, and the like.

The display unit 151 may display information processed in the mobile terminal 100. For example, when the mobile terminal 100 is in a phone call mode, the display unit 151 may display a User Interface (UI) or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) related to a call or other communication (e.g., text messaging, multimedia file downloading, etc.). When the mobile terminal 100 is in a video call mode or an image capturing mode, the display unit 151 may display a captured image and/or a received image, a UI or GUI showing a video or an image and related functions, and the like.

Meanwhile, when the display unit 151 and the touch pad are overlapped with each other in the form of a layer to form a touch screen, the display unit 151 may serve as an input device and an output device. The display unit 151 may include at least one of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a thin film transistor LCD (TFT-LCD), an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display, a flexible display, a three-dimensional (3D) display, and the like. Some of these displays may be configured to be transparent to allow a user to view from the outside, which may be referred to as transparent displays, and a typical transparent display may be, for example, a TOLED (transparent organic light emitting diode) display or the like. Depending on the particular desired implementation, the mobile terminal 100 may include two or more display units (or other display devices), for example, the mobile terminal may include an external display unit (not shown) and an internal display unit (not shown). The touch screen may be used to detect a touch input pressure as well as a touch input position and a touch input area.

The audio output module 152 may convert audio data received by the wireless communication unit 110 or stored in the memory 160 into an audio signal and output as sound when the mobile terminal is in a call signal reception mode, a call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, a broadcast reception mode, or the like. Also, the audio output module 152 may provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the mobile terminal 100 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output module 152 may include a speaker, a buzzer, and the like.

The alarm unit 153 may provide an output to notify the mobile terminal 100 of the occurrence of an event. Typical events may include call reception, message reception, key signal input, touch input, and the like. In addition to audio or video output, the alarm unit 153 may provide output in different ways to notify the occurrence of an event. For example, the alarm unit 153 may provide an output in the form of vibration, and when a call, a message, or some other incoming communication (incomingmunication) is received, the alarm unit 153 may provide a tactile output (i.e., vibration) to inform the user thereof. By providing such a tactile output, the user can recognize the occurrence of various events even when the user's mobile phone is in the user's pocket. The alarm unit 153 may also provide an output notifying the occurrence of an event via the display unit 151 or the audio output module 152.

The memory 160 may store software programs and the like for processing and controlling operations performed by the controller 180, or may temporarily store data (e.g., a phonebook, messages, still images, videos, and the like) that has been or will be output. Also, the memory 160 may store data regarding various ways of vibration and audio signals output when a touch is applied to the touch screen.

The memory 160 may include at least one type of storage medium including a flash memory, a hard disk, a multimedia card, a card-type memory (e.g., SD or DX memory, etc.), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), a magnetic memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, and the like. Also, the mobile terminal 100 may cooperate with a network storage device that performs a storage function of the memory 160 through a network connection.

The controller 180 generally controls the overall operation of the mobile terminal. For example, the controller 180 performs control and processing related to voice calls, data communications, video calls, and the like. In addition, the controller 180 may include a multimedia module 1810 for reproducing (or playing back) multimedia data, and the multimedia module 1810 may be constructed within the controller 180 or may be constructed separately from the controller 180. The controller 180 may perform a pattern recognition process to recognize a handwriting input or a picture drawing input performed on the touch screen as a character or an image.

The power supply unit 190 receives external power or internal power and provides appropriate power required to operate various elements and components under the control of the controller 180.

The various embodiments described herein may be implemented in a computer-readable medium using, for example, computer software, hardware, or any combination thereof. For a hardware implementation, the embodiments described herein may be implemented using at least one of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), a Digital Signal Processing Device (DSPD), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a processor, a controller, a microcontroller, a microprocessor, an electronic unit designed to perform the functions described herein, and in some cases, such embodiments may be implemented in the controller 180. For a software implementation, the implementation such as a process or a function may be implemented with a separate software module that allows performing at least one function or operation. The software codes may be implemented by software applications (or programs) written in any suitable programming language, which may be stored in the memory 160 and executed by the controller 180.

Up to this point, mobile terminals have been described in terms of their functionality. Hereinafter, a slide-type mobile terminal among various types of mobile terminals, such as a folder-type, bar-type, swing-type, slide-type mobile terminal, and the like, will be described as an example for the sake of brevity. Accordingly, the present invention can be applied to any type of mobile terminal, and is not limited to a slide type mobile terminal.

The mobile terminal 100 as shown in fig. 1 may be configured to operate with communication systems such as wired and wireless communication systems and satellite-based communication systems that transmit data via frames or packets.

A communication system in which a mobile terminal according to the present invention is operable will now be described with reference to fig. 2.

Such communication systems may use different air interfaces and/or physical layers. For example, the air interface used by the communication system includes, for example, Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) (in particular, Long Term Evolution (LTE)), global system for mobile communications (GSM), and the like. By way of non-limiting example, the following description relates to a CDMA communication system, but such teachings are equally applicable to other types of systems.

Referring to fig. 2, the CDMA wireless communication system may include a plurality of mobile terminals 100, a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) 270, Base Station Controllers (BSCs) 275, and a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) 280. The MSC280 is configured to interface with a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) 290. The MSC280 is also configured to interface with a BSC275, which may be coupled to the base station 270 via a backhaul. The backhaul may be constructed according to any of several known interfaces including, for example, E1/T1, ATM, IP, PPP, frame Relay, HDSL, ADSL, or xDSL. It will be understood that a system as shown in fig. 2 may include multiple BSCs 2750.

Each BS270 may serve one or more sectors (or regions), each sector covered by a multi-directional antenna or an antenna pointing in a particular direction being radially distant from the BS 270. Alternatively, each partition may be covered by two or more antennas for diversity reception. Each BS270 may be configured to support multiple frequency allocations, with each frequency allocation having a particular frequency spectrum (e.g., 1.25MHz,5MHz, etc.).

The intersection of partitions with frequency allocations may be referred to as a CDMA channel. The BS270 may also be referred to as a Base Transceiver Subsystem (BTS) or other equivalent terminology. In such a case, the term "base station" may be used to generically refer to a single BSC275 and at least one BS 270. The base stations may also be referred to as "cells". Alternatively, each sector of a particular BS270 may be referred to as a plurality of cell sites.

As shown in fig. 2, a Broadcast Transmitter (BT)295 transmits a broadcast signal to the mobile terminal 100 operating within the system. A broadcast receiving module 111 as shown in fig. 1 is provided at the mobile terminal 100 to receive a broadcast signal transmitted by the BT 295. In fig. 2, several Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites 300 are shown. The satellite 300 assists in locating at least one of the plurality of mobile terminals 100.

In fig. 2, a plurality of satellites 300 are depicted, but it is understood that useful positioning information may be obtained with any number of satellites. The GPS module 115 as shown in fig. 1 is generally configured to cooperate with satellites 300 to obtain desired positioning information. Other techniques that can track the location of the mobile terminal may be used instead of or in addition to GPS tracking techniques. In addition, at least one GPS satellite 300 may selectively or additionally process satellite DMB transmission.

As a typical operation of the wireless communication system, the BS270 receives reverse link signals from various mobile terminals 100. The mobile terminal 100 is generally engaged in conversations, messaging, and other types of communications. Each reverse link signal received by a particular base station 270 is processed within the particular BS 270. The obtained data is forwarded to the associated BSC 275. The BSC provides call resource allocation and mobility management functions including coordination of soft handoff procedures between BSs 270. The BSCs 275 also route the received data to the MSC280, which provides additional routing services for interfacing with the PSTN 290. Similarly, the PSTN290 interfaces with the MSC280, the MSC interfaces with the BSCs 275, and the BSCs 275 accordingly control the BS270 to transmit forward link signals to the mobile terminal 100.

Based on the above mobile terminal hardware structure and communication system, the present invention provides various embodiments of the method.

Example one

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a multi-card management method of a virtual card terminal applied to a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the multi-card management method of a virtual card terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 3, and is applied to a mobile terminal, as shown in fig. 3, and includes the following steps:

s100, acquiring parameter information of at least one authorized virtual SIM card stored in a cloud server;

s200, receiving a selected instruction of the virtual SIM card;

s300, sending a network access request signal containing the unique identification code of the mobile terminal to an operator server to which the selected virtual SIM card belongs;

and S400, binding the selected virtual SIM card with the mobile terminal corresponding to the unique identification code when receiving the signal which is returned by the operator server and allows network access.

Specifically, for the steps S100 and S200, the method includes:

According to an example of this embodiment, as shown in fig. 7, a user equipment UE (e.g., a mobile terminal) first sends a cloud login request to a cloud server, logs in the cloud server after passing a preset authentication check, the cloud server sends an access response allowing access to the UE, and then sends an SIM card information downloading request to the cloud server, starts a downloading process after both sides start a data encryption mode, and downloads parameter information of an SIM card stored in the cloud server (including, but not limited to, an operator to which the SIM card belongs, an ICCID of the SIM card, and an operator package category to which the SIM card currently belongs) to the local terminal.

Further, the authentication method includes:

The preset password includes, but is not limited to, a character password, a gesture password, and the like, and the biometric information includes, for example, fingerprint information of a human body, iris information, voice feature information, facial feature information, and the like.

The unique identification code of the mobile terminal is a mobile equipment international identity code IMEI and/or a mobile equipment identification code MEID.

The embodiment leads the parameter information of the SIM card into the secure storage of the mobile terminal, and provides a lead-in channel, thus freeing the SIM card of the entity, the SIM card of the entity can be independently stored to any place where the SIM card wants to be stored after the SIM card of the entity is led in the information, and the virtual card terminal gets rid of the limit of the entity card terminal to the entity card, can store any number of cards through the secure built-in storage, and then selects a plurality of cards to activate and access the network according to the needs, the user can conveniently manage the current card state on the UI interactive interface, which is equivalent to that a single-card mobile phone and a multi-card mobile phone have no definite concept in the virtual card terminal and completely adjust according to the needs of the user, and the traditional mobile phone has no imagination at all due to the limit of hardware, and the user has no need to worry about the problem that the entity card is lost along with the loss of the mobile phone at all, once the parameter information of the physical card is imported, the physical SIM card is no longer needed, and the user can store the parameter information in any place where the user wants to store the parameter information, which is beyond the reach of the conventional mobile phone.

Example two

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a multi-card management method applied to a virtual card terminal of a mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 4, the present embodiment further includes, on the basis of steps S100, S200, S300, and S400, the following steps:

s010, when the mobile terminal is inserted into the SIM card, acquiring parameter information of the SIM card;

s020, logging in a user account of the cloud server through a preset authentication mode;

and S030, after receiving the synchronization instruction, uploading the acquired parameter information of the entity SIM card to an account corresponding to login of the cloud server.

The specific process flow is shown in fig. 5, a user equipment UE (e.g., a mobile terminal) first sends a cloud login request to a cloud server, the cloud server is logged in after passing a preset authentication check, the cloud server sends an access response allowing access to the UE, and immediately sends a SIM card information cloud backup request to the cloud server, after both sides open a data encryption mode, a backup process is started, and parameter information of an inserted SIM card (including but not limited to an operator to which the SIM card belongs, an ICCID of the SIM card, and a category of a package of operators to which the SIM card currently belongs) is transmitted to a cloud, and a later-stage user can also update an account number of the cloud server according to a use condition, for example, when the SIM card package is adjusted or an SIM card needs to be added or a stored SIM card needs to be deleted.

After the information of the card is imported in daily life, the user plane information of the card imported in the mobile phone at present, including an operator to which the card belongs, an ICCID of the card, and an operator package category to which the current card belongs, can be intuitively browsed in a UI (user interface) provided by the terminal after the information of the card is imported and the safe storage of the virtual card terminal is realized. The UI interactive interface also provides an interface for synchronizing the SIM card information in the mobile phone secure storage, and a user can select whether to synchronize the parameter information of all the SIM cards into the secure storage corresponding to the cloud server according to the needs of the user. If the user selects synchronization, the information stored in the secure storage of the user terminal is synchronized with the cloud secure storage in an encrypted manner, and the information is stored in the cloud.

The user can perform cloud backup of safe cloud storage on all network access parameter information of the SIM card under the name of the user and the unique terminal identification information bound with the SIM card. The backup is achieved, so long as a user has account information of the user, the user can log in and browse the information of the SIM card of the user through the cloud terminal at any time and any place, and meanwhile, the parameter information of the SIM card can be loaded to the mobile phone of the user in the air according to the requirement of the user, and the parameter information is written into the built-in safe storage after being decrypted. Then, the corresponding card is selected to access the network according to the requirement of the user. The acquisition mode of the information parameters of the virtual SIM card and the corresponding network access mode are concepts which are not existed in the traditional function and the smart phone at all.

The embodiment provides a detailed method for synchronizing the parameter information of the SIM card to the cloud server, and allows a user to update in real time, so that the SIM card information stored by the cloud server always keeps the latest data state, and the user can completely load the SIM card of a corresponding operator in the air according to the requirement of the user and then access the network whenever and wherever the user wants, thereby improving the use of a mobile terminal (such as a mobile phone) to a brand-new height, breaking through the traditional bottleneck and laying out the benchmarks in the industry.

EXAMPLE III

Fig. 6 is a flowchart of a multi-card management method applied to a virtual card terminal of an operator server according to another embodiment of the present invention, and the multi-card management method applied to a virtual card terminal of an operator server according to another embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 6, and as shown in fig. 6, the method includes:

s310, receiving a network access request signal of a virtual SIM card containing a unique identification code of the mobile terminal, which is sent by the mobile terminal;

and S320, judging whether the virtual SIM card is bound with other mobile terminals according to the unique identification code, if so, returning a signal for limiting network access to the mobile terminal, and otherwise, returning a signal for allowing network access to the mobile terminal and the terminal.

The embodiment ensures that the operator has only one same SIM card in the network at the same time, namely the corresponding relation between the SIM card and the terminal is absolute one-to-one, and the mapping relation between the terminal and the SIM card can be many-to-one, thereby ensuring the uniqueness and the legality of the SIM card in the network.

Example four

The embodiment provides a multi-card management method of a virtual card terminal in detail. Through the synchronous operation with the cloud, the user can back up the parameter information of the SIM card (such as the operator to which the SIM card belongs, the ICCID of the SIM card, and the category of the operator package to which the SIM card currently belongs) at the cloud. When the user next takes one virtual card terminal again, the user does not need to take out the entity sim card of the user for importing again. The user only needs to log in an account number and a password in the cloud storage of the user or log in the cloud terminal in other high-level authentication modes (such as a biological characteristic information password), then browses all effective SIM card user-level information under the current account information of the user, then selects a corresponding SIM card according to the user's needs, writes the virtual SIM card information into the secure storage of the mobile phone after performing secure decoding in an Over-the-Air Technology (OTA) mode (a flow chart of cloud backup and cloud loading is shown in fig. 5), and then the user selects to activate the corresponding card safely so as to enable the corresponding card to be used in a normal network. The above-mentioned is a macroscopic flow, which is described in detail in the following steps:

a) a user takes a virtual card mobile terminal, normally connects a network (wifi or cellular mobile network), performs cloud login through a security account number allocated or applied by a manufacturer or a biological characteristic which is subjected to security matching, selects a corresponding sim card according to the requirement after browsing effective card information subjected to cloud synchronization, selects sim card parameter cloud loading (namely initiates a synchronization request for downloading the sim card parameter information of the cloud to a mobile phone), and the uplink request carries the international identity code IMEI and/or the mobile equipment identification code MEID of the mobile equipment of the current virtual card terminal of the user or terminal unique information of the terminal manufacturer's own identification;

b) after the cloud receives the download request message, the cloud performs identity verification on the unique identity of the terminal through a universal mobile equipment international identity (IMEI) and/or a mobile equipment identification code (MEID) or terminal unique information defined by a terminal manufacturer to determine the legality and the uniqueness of the mobile phone;

c) after the cloud authentication is passed, the network loads the encrypted data to the mobile phone through the OTA, and the mobile phone decrypts the data through a decryption mode well coordinated with the network and writes the data into a built-in secure storage from the cache;

d) fig. 8 is a flowchart of a method for entering a virtual SIM card into a network according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 8, after the OTA writing of the SIM card parameters is completed, a user may determine whether to select a terminal to access a network by using a SIM card with currently written parameters through a UI interface, if the user selects yes, the mobile phone first sends data of a network access request to a cloud server provided by a terminal manufacturer, where the network access request carries information such as an ICCID (unique identification number of an IC card) of the card and a unique identification number of a mobile terminal, and the server searches all historical terminal data bound to the ICCID of the card after receiving the data (the searched data sources include server user data records of the operator server and the terminal manufacturer), where the importance of the unique identification number of the terminal is recognized because it uniquely identifies a terminal. And judging whether the SIM card is bound with the mobile terminal, if so, sending a command for forbidding the non-network-accessing terminal under the card directory to use the card for accessing the network to the corresponding operator. In doing so, it must be ensured that the same card is not present in different terminals and on the network at the same time. The mapping correspondence here is that one card corresponds to only one terminal, and one terminal can correspond to multiple cards, that is, the relationship between the card and the terminal is one-to-one, and the relationship between the terminal and the card is many-to-one. After the operator finishes the process of the mapping relation, the server sends a network access request of the terminal and the sim card to the operator server, and simultaneously informs the network access terminal and the operator of a protocol flow for network access, the next process is handed over to the operator and the terminal UE, the process is consistent with the network access flow of the current entity card, and excessive explanation is not needed.

The embodiment provides a more detailed technical scheme to realize the method, and the method gets rid of the limitation of the entity card terminal on the entity card, so that a user can store any number of SIM cards through safe built-in storage, and meanwhile, the problem that the entity card is lost along with the loss of a mobile phone is completely avoided.

EXAMPLE five

Fig. 9 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary structure of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 9, and as shown in fig. 9, the mobile terminal 100 includes:

the information acquisition module 10 is configured to acquire parameter information of at least one authorized virtual SIM card stored in a cloud server;

an instruction receiving module 20, configured to receive a selected instruction of the virtual SIM card;

a signal sending module 30, configured to send a network access request signal including a unique identifier of the mobile terminal to an operator server to which the selected virtual SIM card belongs;

and the binding module 40 is used for binding the selected virtual SIM card with the mobile terminal corresponding to the unique identification code when receiving the signal which is returned by the operator server and allows network access.

Preferably, the mobile terminal further includes:

The account login unit is specifically further configured to:

Further, the mobile terminal further includes:

the mobile terminal comprises a parameter information acquisition unit, a parameter information acquisition unit and a parameter information acquisition unit, wherein the parameter information acquisition unit is used for acquiring the parameter information of an SIM card when the mobile terminal is inserted into the SIM card;

the user account login unit is used for logging in a user account of the cloud server through a preset authentication mode;

and the parameter information uploading unit is used for uploading the acquired parameter information of the entity SIM card to an account corresponding to login of the cloud server after receiving the synchronization instruction.

Which may be embodied in various forms. For example, the terminal described in the present invention may include a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, a smart phone, a notebook computer, a digital broadcast receiver, a PDA (personal digital assistant), a PAD (tablet computer), a PMP (portable multimedia player), a navigation device, and the like, and a stationary terminal such as a digital TV, a desktop computer, and the like. In the following, it is assumed that the terminal is a mobile terminal. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the configuration according to the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a fixed type terminal in addition to elements particularly used for moving purposes.

The embodiment provides a mobile terminal which comprises various functional modules, and the multi-card management method of the virtual card terminal is operated and used to get rid of the limitation of the entity card terminal on the entity card, so that a user can store any number of SIM cards through safe built-in storage, and meanwhile, the problem that the entity cards are lost along with the loss of a mobile phone is completely avoided.

EXAMPLE six

Fig. 10 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary structure of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the server according to an embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 10, where, as shown in fig. 10, the server 11 further includes:

the signal receiving module 31 is configured to receive a network access request signal of a virtual SIM card containing a unique identifier of a mobile terminal, which is sent by the mobile terminal;

and the signal returning module 32 is used for judging whether the virtual SIM card is bound with other mobile terminals according to the unique identification code, if so, returning a signal for limiting network access to the mobile terminal, and otherwise, returning a signal for allowing network access to the mobile terminal and the terminal.

The server provided by the embodiment comprises each functional module, and only one SIM card which is the same with the operator in the network at the same time is ensured by operating and using the multi-card management method applied to the virtual card terminal of the operator server, namely, the corresponding relation between the SIM card and the terminal is absolute one-to-one, and the mapping relation between the terminal and the SIM card can be many-to-one, so that the uniqueness and the legality of the SIM card in the network are ensured

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal device (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.

Claims

1. The multi-card management method of the virtual card terminal is applied to the mobile terminal, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

the method comprises the steps that after a cloud server is logged in through a preset authentication mode, parameter information of at least one authorized virtual SIM card stored in the cloud server is obtained;

receiving a selected instruction of the virtual SIM card;

when a signal which is returned by an operator server and allows network access is received, binding the selected virtual SIM card with the mobile terminal corresponding to the unique identification code;

the method further comprises the following steps:

when the mobile terminal is inserted into an SIM card, acquiring parameter information of the SIM card;

logging in a user account of the cloud server in a preset authentication mode;

and after receiving a synchronization instruction, uploading the acquired parameter information of the SIM card to an account corresponding to login of the cloud server.

2. The multi-card management method of a virtual card terminal according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

logging in a user account of the cloud server in a preset authentication mode;

3. The multi-card management method of the virtual card terminal according to claim 2, wherein the authentication means comprises:

4. The multi-card management method of the virtual card terminal according to any of the claims 1 to 3, wherein the unique identification code of the mobile terminal is a mobile equipment international identity code IMEI and/or a mobile equipment identification code MEID.

5. A mobile terminal, characterized in that the mobile terminal comprises:

the information acquisition module is used for acquiring parameter information of at least one authorized virtual SIM card stored in the cloud server after logging in the cloud server through a preset authentication mode;

the binding module is used for binding the selected virtual SIM card with the mobile terminal corresponding to the unique identification code when receiving a signal which is returned by the operator server and allows network access;

the information acquisition module is further configured to:

logging in a user account of the cloud server in a preset authentication mode;

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the mobile terminal further comprises:

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the account login unit is further configured to: