CN108924820B

CN108924820B - Method, device, equipment and storage medium for realizing sharing of SIM card

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Publication number: CN108924820B
Application number: CN201810837821.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 申宏刚; 黄江涛
Original assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-07-26
Filing date: 2018-07-26
Publication date: 2021-10-22
Anticipated expiration: 2038-07-26
Also published as: CN108924820A

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a method, a device, equipment and a storage medium for realizing a shared SIM card, wherein the method comprises the following steps: if the first shared SIM card purchased by the user is available, the terminal equipment sends a shared SIM card using request to a server for managing the shared SIM card, receives the card resource of the first shared SIM card returned by the server, initiates network registration according to the card resource, and uses the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is completed. By the scheme, a plurality of users can dynamically share SIM card resources in the SIM card pool, so that the data use cost of the users is reduced, and the user experience is improved.

Description

Method, device, equipment and storage medium for realizing sharing of SIM card

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for implementing a shared SIM card.

Background

With the development of intelligent terminal equipment, more and more services, especially network data services, are used in daily life of users, and at present, each mobile phone needs to be installed with an SIM card provided by an operator, and a data service is opened through the SIM card, so that each mobile phone of each user needs to pay certain data cost to the operator.

Disclosure of Invention

To overcome the problems in the related art, the present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for implementing a shared SIM card.

According to a first aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for implementing SIM card sharing is provided, which is applied to a terminal device, and includes:

if the first shared SIM card purchased by the user is available, sending a shared SIM card using request to a server for managing the shared SIM card; the identity of the first shared SIM card in the shared SIM card use request;

receiving card resources of the first shared SIM card returned by the server;

and initiating network registration according to the card resource, and using the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is finished.

In the scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device sends the purchased shared SIM card use request to the server for managing the shared SIM card, obtains the card resource of the shared SIM card, and then performs network registration and data service according to the card resource, so that a plurality of users can dynamically share the SIM cards in the SIM card pool, the cost of using data by the users is reduced, and the user experience is improved.

In a specific implementation manner, before sending the shared SIM card use request to the server for managing the shared SIM card, the method further includes;

sending a shared SIM card state query request to the server, wherein the shared SIM card state query request is used for requesting the server to query whether the state of the first shared SIM card is available;

and receiving a shared SIM card state query result returned by the server, wherein the shared SIM card state query result is used for indicating the state of the first shared SIM card.

In this scheme, the terminal device needs to query the server about the status of the purchased shared SIM card, whether the purchased shared SIM card is available, that is, when the SIM card is used by another terminal device, the user cannot use the SIM card, and a queuing operation needs to be performed.

In a specific implementation scheme, before sending the request for querying the status of the shared SIM card to the server, the method further includes:

starting a shared SIM card application program according to user operation;

and authenticating the identity of the user according to the account and the password input by the user in the shared SIM card application program.

In the scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, an application program for using a shared SIM scheme can be installed on the terminal device, an interface between the server and the terminal device is provided, and the identity of the user is authenticated through an account and a password during use by user registration.

In another specific implementation, the method further includes:

and displaying the state inquiry result of the shared SIM card.

In the scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, the terminal device can display the queried state of the shared SIM, so that the user can know whether the shared SIM is available at present, thereby avoiding blind waiting and improving user experience.

In another specific implementation manner, the initiating network registration according to the card resource and using the data service of the first shared SIM card after the completion of the registration includes:

sending a network registration request to a base station according to the card resource;

receiving an authentication request returned by the base station, and forwarding the authentication request to the server for authentication;

receiving an authentication result returned by the server;

and sending the authentication result to the base station to complete network registration and use the data service of the first shared SIM card.

In the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, the specific process of network registration of the shared SIM obtained by the terminal equipment is to initiate network registration to the base station according to the card resource, forward an authentication request returned by the base station to the server for authentication, and use the data service of the shared SIM card after completing the network registration, thereby realizing the scheme that a plurality of users share the SIM card.

According to a second aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for implementing a shared SIM card, which is applied to a server for managing the shared SIM card, the method including:

receiving a shared SIM card use request sent by terminal equipment; the identity of the first shared SIM card in the shared SIM card use request;

obtaining card resources of the first shared SIM card according to the shared SIM card using request;

and sending the card resource of the first shared SIM card to the terminal equipment, wherein the card resource is used for network registration.

According to the method for realizing the shared SIM card, the server receives the request for using the purchased shared SIM card sent by the terminal equipment, acquires the card resource of the shared SIM card, and then sends the card resource to the terminal equipment for network registration and data service according to the card resource, so that a plurality of users can dynamically share the SIM card in the SIM card pool, the cost for using data by the users is reduced, and the user experience is improved.

In a specific implementation scheme, before the receiving a request for using a shared SIM card sent by a terminal device, the method further includes:

receiving a shared SIM card state query request sent by the terminal equipment, wherein the shared SIM card state query request is used for querying whether the state of the first shared SIM card is available or not;

inquiring the state of the first shared SIM card to obtain the state inquiry result of the shared SIM card;

and sending the state inquiry result of the shared SIM card to the terminal equipment.

In the solution provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the terminal device needs to query the server about the state of the purchased shared SIM card, whether the purchased shared SIM card is available, that is, when the SIM card is used by another terminal device, the user cannot use the SIM card, and a queuing operation needs to be performed.

In another specific embodiment, the method further comprises:

receiving an authentication request sent by the terminal equipment;

authenticating the first shared SIM card according to the authentication request to obtain an authentication result;

and sending the authentication result to the terminal equipment.

According to a third aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus for implementing a shared SIM card is provided, including:

the first sending module is configured to send a shared SIM card using request to a server for managing the shared SIM card if the first shared SIM card purchased by the user is available; the identity of the first shared SIM card in the shared SIM card use request;

a first receiving module configured to receive the card resource of the first shared SIM card returned by the server;

and the first processing module is configured to initiate network registration according to the card resource and use the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is completed.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises;

a second sending module configured to send a shared SIM card status query request to the server, where the shared SIM card status query request is used to request the server to query whether the status of the first shared SIM card is available;

a second receiving module, configured to receive a shared SIM card status query result returned by the server, where the shared SIM card status query result is used to indicate a status of the first shared SIM card.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises: a second processing module configured to:

starting a shared SIM card application program according to user operation;

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

a display module configured to display the shared SIM card status query result.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

a third sending module configured to send a network registration request to the base station according to the card resource;

a third receiving module configured to receive an authentication request returned by the base station;

a fourth sending module configured to forward the authentication request to the server for authentication;

the fourth receiving module is configured to receive the authentication result returned by the server;

the fourth sending module is further configured to send the authentication result to the base station to complete network registration, and use the data service of the first shared SIM card.

According to a fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus for implementing a shared SIM card, the apparatus including:

the first receiving module is configured to receive a shared SIM card using request sent by the terminal equipment; the identity of the first shared SIM card in the shared SIM card use request;

a first processing module configured to acquire a card resource of the first shared SIM card according to the shared SIM card use request;

a first sending module configured to send the card resource of the first shared SIM card to the terminal device, the card resource being used for network registration.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

a second receiving module, configured to receive a shared SIM card status query request sent by the terminal device, where the shared SIM card status query request is used to query whether the status of the first shared SIM card is available;

the second processing module is configured to query the state of the first shared SIM card to obtain a query result of the state of the shared SIM card;

a second sending module configured to send the shared SIM card status query result to the terminal device.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

a third receiving module configured to receive an authentication request sent by the terminal device;

the third processing module is configured to authenticate the first shared SIM card according to the authentication request to obtain an authentication result;

and the third sending module is configured to send the authentication result to the terminal equipment.

According to a fifth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a terminal device, including: a receiver, a transmitter, a memory, a processor, and a computer program, the processor running the computer program to perform:

receiving card resources of the first shared SIM card returned by the server;

According to a sixth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a server including: a receiver, a transmitter, a memory, a processor and a computer program, the processor running the computer program to execute;

According to a seventh aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, where the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the shared SIM card implementation method of the first aspect.

According to an eighth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the shared SIM card implementation method according to the second aspect.

According to the method, the device, the equipment and the storage medium for realizing the shared SIM card, if the state of the first shared SIM card purchased by a user is available, the terminal equipment sends a shared SIM card using request to a server for managing the shared SIM card, receives the card resource of the first shared SIM card returned by the server, initiates network registration according to the card resource, and uses the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is completed. By the scheme, a plurality of users can dynamically share SIM card resources in the SIM card pool, so that the data use cost of the users is reduced, and the user experience is improved.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an application scenario of a shared SIM card implementation method according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of a method for implementing a shared SIM card according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a second embodiment of a method for implementing a shared SIM card according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a third implementation method of a shared SIM card according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a first embodiment of a shared SIM card implementing device, according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a second embodiment of a shared SIM card implementing device according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a third embodiment of a shared SIM card implementing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a fourth embodiment of a shared SIM card implementing apparatus according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a fifth embodiment of a shared SIM card implementing device, according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram illustrating a sixth embodiment of a shared SIM card implementing device, according to an illustrative embodiment.

Fig. 11 is a block diagram illustrating a seventh embodiment of a shared SIM card implementing device, according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 12 is a block diagram illustrating an eighth embodiment of a shared SIM card implementing device according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a terminal equipment entity according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 14 is a block diagram illustrating a server entity in accordance with an example embodiment.

Fig. 15 is a block diagram illustrating a terminal device 1200 according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 16 is a block diagram illustrating a server 1600 in accordance with an example embodiment.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with the present invention. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of the invention, as detailed in the appended claims.

With the advent of sharing economy, no scheme is available at present for enabling multiple terminal devices to share Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card resources. The shared SIM technology refers to a data service in which a plurality of user terminals can share the resource of one SIM card and use the SIM card. In view of the current card issuing strategy of an operator and the habit of more and more users using data services, the scheme provides a method, which can enable a plurality of users to dynamically enjoy the resource of the same SIM card, thereby achieving the purpose of using the least cost and enabling more people to enjoy more data services.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an application scenario of a shared SIM card implementation method according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the implementation scheme of the shared SIM card is mainly applied between a network device, a terminal device of a user (e.g., a mobile phone, a tablet computer for conversation, etc.), and a server specially configured to manage the shared SIM card, where a shared SIM card application program may be installed on the terminal device of the user, the terminal device interacts with the server through a network, and the server is provided with a special card reader for reading information of a sharable SIM card. The network device herein refers to a network device, such as a base station, used by a terminal device of a user during network registration using a data service.

In the technical scheme, some hardware devices and software application programs are involved, and respectively:

1) and remote card reading service.

2) Shared SIM Application (SSA) on the terminal equipment side.

The Remote Card reading service is composed of a Server (Remote Server, RS), a Card Reader (R-CRD) and a SIM Card resource Pool (SIM Pool, SP).

The function of RS is three: the first function is responsible for communication with terminal equipment such as mobile phones. The second function is responsible for registering and authenticating the mobile phone terminal. The third function of RS is to connect to local R-CRD for information transmission of handset terminal and R-CRD.

And the R-CRD is responsible for reading the card information of the entity SIM card in the SP and the authentication interaction when the mobile phone registers the network.

The SP consists of a physical SIM card purchased from an operator.

The SSA is a shared SIM application installed in the terminal device, and is installed on the terminal device such as a mobile phone. Its function has two points: the first is responsible for the functions of registration, account opening, identity information acquisition and the like of the user. And the second is responsible for dynamically acquiring partial entity card resources of the RS end.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a first embodiment of a method for implementing a shared SIM card according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, in the application scenario shown in fig. 1, the method for implementing the SIM card specifically includes the following steps:

in step S101: and if the first shared SIM card purchased by the user is available, sending a shared SIM card using request to a server for managing the shared SIM card, wherein the identifier of the first shared SIM card in the shared SIM card using request.

In this step, a user registers through a shared SIM application installed on a terminal device such as a mobile phone, and establishes an interface with a server that manages a shared SIM card, and the user can purchase a shared SIM card service through the application, for example: network data resources with fixed size and the like can be purchased, and when the shared SIM card needs to be used, a shared SIM card use request is sent to a server for managing the shared SIM card through an interface provided by the application program, wherein at least an identifier of a first SIM card purchased by the user is carried, and optionally, identity information and the like of the user can also be carried.

In step S102: and acquiring the card resource of the first shared SIM card according to the shared SIM card using request.

In this step, the server receives a request for using the shared SIM card sent by the terminal device, and then obtains card resources of the first shared SIM card according to an identifier of the first shared SIM card carried in the request, where the card resources refer to data and files required for performing network data services in a network device such as a base station.

The card resource may be a part or all of the resource of the first shared SIM card, and this scheme is not limited in this respect.

In step S103: and sending the card resource of the first shared SIM card to the terminal equipment.

And the server sends the obtained card resource of the first shared SIM card to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment receives the card resource of the first shared SIM card purchased by the terminal equipment returned by the server.

In step S104: and initiating network registration according to the card resources, and using the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is finished.

In this step, after acquiring the card resource of the purchased first shared SIM card, the terminal device initiates network registration according to the card resource, and mainly initiates a network registration process to the network device such as the base station, and the network device such as the base station performs identity registration and wireless control resource connection establishment on the terminal device, that is, after the registration is completed, the terminal device can use the data service of the first shared SIM card, that is, uplink and downlink transmission of data is performed by using the traffic of the purchased first shared SIM card or other resources.

Optionally, in the above process, after the terminal device starts to use the first shared SIM card, the server managing the shared SIM card may modify the state of the first shared SIM card to an unavailable state. The first shared SIM card can only be used by the same terminal equipment at the same time, namely, the first shared SIM card can only provide data service for the same terminal equipment.

In the method for implementing the shared SIM card provided in this embodiment, if the state of the first shared SIM card purchased by the user is available, the terminal device sends a shared SIM card use request to a server for managing the shared SIM card, receives the card resource of the first shared SIM card returned by the server, initiates network registration according to the card resource, and uses the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is completed. By the scheme, a plurality of users can dynamically share SIM card resources in the SIM card pool, so that the data use cost of the users is reduced, and the user experience is improved.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a second embodiment of a method for implementing a shared SIM card according to an exemplary embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, on the basis of the first embodiment, before step S101, the method for implementing a shared SIM card further includes the following steps:

in step S201: and starting the shared SIM application program according to the user operation.

In step S202: and authenticating the identity according to the account and the password input by the user in the shared SIM card application program.

In the above steps, when a user needs to use a service of a shared SIM, the shared SIM application program needs to be opened first, and then an account and a password for purchasing a shared SIM service are input to log in, so that the server determines that the user has opened the shared SIM card service, and the identity of the user is verified and authenticated according to the account and the password. The technical solution of the embodiment can be performed after the login is successful.

Optionally, the specific implementation of the scheme may further include the following steps:

in step S203: and sending a shared SIM card state query request to the server, wherein the shared SIM card state query request is used for requesting the server to query whether the state of the first shared SIM card is available.

In this step, for the server, the server receives a shared SIM card status query request sent by the terminal device, where the shared SIM card status query request is used to query whether the status of the first shared SIM card is available.

Since the first shared SIM card is a sharable card, that is, the first shared SIM card can be used by multiple terminals, when a terminal device needs to use the first shared SIM card, it needs to first determine whether the SIM card is being used by other terminal devices, and if so, the terminal device cannot be used at this time, and can only queue at the server side.

In step S204: and inquiring the state of the first shared SIM card to obtain the state inquiry result of the shared SIM card.

In this step, the server queries, according to the identifier of the first shared SIM card, whether the current state of the SIM card is available or unavailable, and obtains a shared SIM card state query result.

In step S205: and sending the state inquiry result of the shared SIM card to the terminal equipment.

In this step, for the terminal device, a shared SIM card status query result returned by the server is received, where the shared SIM card status query result is used to indicate the status of the first shared SIM card.

Optionally, after the implementation process, the following steps may be further performed:

in step S206: and displaying the inquiry result of the state of the shared SIM.

In this step, after receiving the status query result of the SIM card returned by the server, the terminal device may display the currently available status or the currently unavailable status of the first shared SIM card, so that the user can know that the first shared SIM card cannot be used, thereby avoiding blind waiting.

In the method for implementing the shared SIM card provided in this embodiment, the terminal device may be installed with an application program for using a shared SIM scheme, provide an interface between the server and the terminal device, and authenticate the identity of the user through an account and a password when using the server and the terminal device through user registration. Meanwhile, the terminal device needs to inquire the server about the state of the purchased shared SIM card and whether the purchased shared SIM card is available, that is, when the SIM card is used by another terminal device, the user cannot use the SIM card and needs to perform queuing operation. And the state of the inquired shared SIM can be displayed, so that the user can know whether the shared SIM is available at present, blind waiting is avoided, and user experience is improved.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a third embodiment of a method for implementing a shared SIM card according to an exemplary embodiment, and as shown in fig. 4, on the basis of the first embodiment and the second embodiment, a specific implementation scheme of step S104 includes the following steps (taking a terminal device as an execution subject to perform the following processes):

in step S1041: and sending a network registration request to the base station according to the card resource.

In this step, the terminal device sends a network registration request to a network device such as a base station according to the obtained card resource of the first shared SIM card, where the network registration request is mainly intended to initialize the SIM card, and the process is similar to the initialization process on the currently used entity SIM card.

In step S1042: and receiving an authentication request returned by the base station, and forwarding the authentication request to a server for authentication.

The base station initializes the SIM card according to the received card resources and returns an authentication request, and the terminal equipment cannot perform an authentication process because the first shared SIM card is not installed in the terminal equipment but is on the server side, so the authentication request needs to be sent to the server.

In step S1043: and receiving an authentication result returned by the server.

In this step, after receiving the authentication request, the server sends the authentication request to the first shared SIM card in the card pool through the card reader, that is, the shared SIM card bound when the user opens the shared SIM card service, the first shared SIM card performs authentication operation after receiving the authentication request, then returns the authentication result to the server, and the server sends the authentication result to the terminal device.

In step S1044: and sending the authentication result to the base station to complete network registration and use the data service of the first shared SIM card.

The terminal equipment receives the authentication result through the shared SIM card application program and sends the authentication result to the base station through the terminal equipment, the terminal equipment successfully registers to the network in the safe authentication process, the data can be started subsequently, and the data service of the first shared SIM card is adopted.

In the method for implementing the shared SIM card provided in this embodiment, the specific process of network registration of the shared SIM card, which is adopted by the terminal device, is to initiate network registration to the base station according to the card resource, forward the authentication request returned by the base station to the server for authentication, and implement a scheme for sharing the SIM card by multiple users after completing the network registration by using the data service of the shared SIM card.

On the basis of the above embodiments, the following takes a single mobile phone as an example, and the detailed process of the scheme is described by a specific example.

From the perspective of the use of a single mobile phone terminal, the specific process is as follows:

in the first step, the user opens the "share SIM card" application on the handset.

In this step, the user installs and downloads the application program of the 'shared SIM card', and after the program is opened, the operations of new user registration, identity authentication, package purchase, payment and the like are performed. The series of operations are based on the network resources provided by the WiFi network or the user's own entity card, and interact with the remote server RS.

Meanwhile, after the user finishes a series of operations such as payment, the RS preferentially selects an unused new SIM card resource from the SIM card pool through the R-CRD and binds the resource to the user. When the SIM card pool is full, that is, all the SIM cards are already allocated, the SIM cards which are already allocated but not in the 'on' state are preferentially selected to bind the resource to the user. The so-called 'bound SIM card resource', on one hand, RS locally performs many-to-one mapping on the newly-opened user and card resource. On the other hand, the RS reads some basic card files of the allocated card resources through the R-CRD, sends the read basic card files to the remote user mobile phone and stores the read basic card files in the user mobile phone.

And secondly, inputting an account and a password for logging in.

Thirdly, the mobile phone inquires the state of the current shared SIM card from the server through the application program, and determines that the state of the current purchased shared SIM card is available/unavailable.

And fourthly, if the state of the shared SIM card is unavailable, sending the use request to the server to enter the server to wait in a queue.

And fifthly, if the state of the shared SIM card is available, the user initiates a use request to a remote server through the application program.

In the steps, the user inputs the registered user name and password, logs in the shared SIM application program, and starts the shared SIM card resource to surf the internet. Before using the shared SIM card resource, the application program at the mobile phone end automatically sends the inquiry of the current state of the shared SIM card to the RS. There are two states: available (available) and non-available (non-available). If "unavailable" is displayed, indicating that the subscribed shared SIM card resource is being occupied by other sharers, the user's request is sent to the RS to be queued. If the display is "available" at this time, the user's request is sent to the RS. And the RS returns ACK to indicate agreement, and the mobile phone terminal starts to initialize the shared SIM card and registers the network.

When the user inquires the state of the current shared SIM card in step 3, if the state is 'unavailable', the user is added into the queue by the RS. After the shared SIM card resource is released, the user can use the SIM card resource.

And sixthly, the server transmits part of the card resources of the shared SIM card purchased by the user to the mobile phone of the user.

And seventhly, the mobile phone of the user uses the card resource to initiate a network registration request, (wherein, the network refers to a base station or other network equipment or a network server).

And step eight, the mobile phone of the user speaks an authentication request in the network registration process, and sends the authentication request to the entity card of the remote server through the network to perform authentication operation.

And step nine, the server returns the authentication result to the mobile phone.

Step ten, the mobile phone returns the authentication result to the network, the mobile phone of the user uses the shared SIM card to register to the network, and uses the data service of the shared SIM card.

In the above steps, the mobile phone end of the user performs the initialization process of the SIM by using the downloaded card resource, and the process is completely consistent with the initialization process of the entity SIM. After the SIM card initialization is completed, the shared SIM card starts to initiate a request for registering the network. And the base station sends an authentication request to the terminal.

At this time, if the terminal is in a WIreless Fidelity (WIFI) environment, the terminal directly sends the authentication request issued by the base station to the remote RS. And after receiving the request, the RS issues the request to a corresponding entity SIM card in the card resource pool through the R-CRD, wherein the SIM card is the shared SIM card bound when the user is opened. The SIM card carries out authentication operation after receiving the authentication request, returns the authentication result to the RS, and the RS returns the result to the 'shared SIM' application program of the user terminal. And the application program returns the authentication result to the Modem after receiving the authentication result, and the Modem sends the authentication result back to the base station to complete the authentication process, so that the application program is successfully registered in the network.

At the moment, if the terminal is not in the WIFI environment, the terminal switches the DDS to another entity card of the user and enables data. After the data is successfully enabled, the authentication request sent to the shared SIM by the base station is sent to the remote RS through Internet in the same way as the above process, and the RS returns the authentication result to the terminal after finishing authentication. And the terminal Modem returns the result to the base station, thereby completing the registration of the 'shared SIM' card. And when the shared SIM card is successfully registered, switching the DDS back to the shared SIM card.

At this time, the user terminal can use the shared SIM resource to surf the internet.

And eleventh, the server end sets the state of the shared SIM card as unavailable.

When the user of the mobile phone completes registration by using the shared SIM, the RS sets the state of the local card resource to 'unavailable', which means that the shared SIM can only provide service for one mobile phone at the same time.

The key point of the method for realizing the sharing of the SIM card is that not all SIM card resources are stored in the user mobile phone terminal, but a part of the card resources can be read out through the RS and sent to the user mobile phone terminal for storage, and the other part of the card files which cannot be read out is still stored in a remote SIM card pool. The advantage of this is that the user's mobile phone end does not need to save a complete SIM card resource, only needs to save part of the card resource. The method and the device realize the sharing of the resources in the SIM card pool, namely a plurality of users can be bound to the same SIM card, realize the dynamic resource sharing, realize the dynamic sharing of the SIM card resources in the SIM card pool by the plurality of users, and further reduce the data use cost of the users.

The present disclosure provides a shared SIM card implementation apparatus, which may be used to implement the technical solutions in the methods shown in fig. 1 to 4.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a first embodiment of an apparatus for implementing a shared SIM card according to an exemplary embodiment. The shared SIM card implementation apparatus 10 includes:

a first sending module 11 configured to send a shared SIM card use request to a server managing the shared SIM card if the first shared SIM card purchased by the user is available in a state; the identity of the first shared SIM card in the shared SIM card use request;

a first receiving module 12 configured to receive the card resource of the first shared SIM card returned by the server;

and the first processing module 13 is configured to initiate network registration according to the card resource, and use the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is completed.

The shared SIM card implementation apparatus provided in this embodiment is used to implement the technical solution of the shared SIM card implementation method in any one of the foregoing method embodiments, and the implementation principle and technical effect are similar, and the terminal device obtains the card resource of the shared SIM card by sending a purchased shared SIM card use request to a server that manages the shared SIM card, and then performs network registration and data service according to the card resource, thereby implementing that multiple users can dynamically share the SIM card in the SIM card pool, reducing the cost for the user to use data, and improving user experience.

On the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 5, fig. 6 is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the shared SIM card implementation apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment. Referring to fig. 6, the shared SIM card implementation apparatus 10 further includes:

a second sending module 14, configured to send a shared SIM card status query request to the server, where the shared SIM card status query request is used to request the server to query whether the status of the first shared SIM card is available;

a second receiving module 15, configured to receive a shared SIM card status query result returned by the server, where the shared SIM card status query result is used to indicate a status of the first shared SIM card.

On the basis of the above embodiments shown in fig. 5 or fig. 6, fig. 7 is a block diagram of a third embodiment of a shared SIM card implementation apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment, and referring to fig. 7, the shared SIM card implementation apparatus 10 further includes: a second processing module 16 configured to:

starting a shared SIM card application program according to user operation;

On the basis of the above embodiments shown in fig. 5, fig. 6, or fig. 7, fig. 8 is a block diagram of a fourth embodiment of the shared SIM card implementation apparatus shown in an exemplary embodiment, and referring to fig. 8, the shared SIM card implementation apparatus 10 further includes:

a display module 17 configured to display the shared SIM card status inquiry result.

On the basis of the embodiments shown in fig. 5 or fig. 6 or fig. 7 or fig. 8, fig. 9 is a block diagram of a fifth embodiment of a shared SIM card implementation apparatus shown according to an exemplary embodiment, and referring to fig. 9, the shared SIM card implementation apparatus 10 further includes:

a third sending module 18 configured to send a network registration request to the base station according to the card resource;

a third receiving module 19 configured to receive the authentication request returned by the base station;

a fourth sending module 20 configured to forward the authentication request to the server for authentication;

a fourth receiving module 21, configured to receive an authentication result returned by the server;

the fourth sending module 20 is further configured to send the authentication result to the base station to complete network registration, and use the data service of the first shared SIM card.

The shared SIM card implementation apparatus provided in any of the foregoing disclosure embodiments is used to implement the technical solution of the terminal device in any of the foregoing method embodiments, and the implementation principle and technical effect are similar, which are not described herein again.

The shared SIM card implementation apparatus in the above embodiments may be implemented as a terminal device, wherein the specific manner in which each module performs operations has been described in detail in the embodiments of the method, and will not be described in detail here. That is, the internal functional modules and the structural schematic of the terminal device are described above.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram illustrating a sixth embodiment of a shared SIM card implementation apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment, where, as shown in fig. 10, the shared SIM card implementation apparatus 30 includes:

a first receiving module 31 configured to receive a shared SIM card use request sent by a terminal device; the identity of the first shared SIM card in the shared SIM card use request;

a first processing module 32 configured to obtain card resources of the first shared SIM card according to the shared SIM card usage request;

a first sending module 33 configured to send the card resource of the first shared SIM card to the terminal device, the card resource being used for network registration.

On the basis of the above-described embodiment shown in fig. 10, fig. 11 is a block diagram illustrating a seventh embodiment of the shared SIM card implementation apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment. Referring to fig. 11, the shared SIM card implementation apparatus 30 further includes:

a second receiving module 34, configured to receive a shared SIM card status query request sent by the terminal device, where the shared SIM card status query request is used to query whether the status of the first shared SIM card is available;

a second processing module 35, configured to query the state of the first shared SIM card, to obtain a query result of the state of the shared SIM card;

a second sending module 36, configured to send the shared SIM card status query result to the terminal device.

On the basis of the above-mentioned embodiments shown in fig. 10 or fig. 11, fig. 12 is a block diagram of an eighth embodiment of the shared SIM card implementation apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment. Referring to fig. 12, the shared SIM card implementation apparatus 30 further includes:

a third receiving module 37, configured to receive the authentication request sent by the terminal device;

a third processing module 38, configured to authenticate the first shared SIM card according to the authentication request, so as to obtain an authentication result;

a third sending module 39 configured to send the authentication result to the terminal device.

The shared SIM card implementation apparatus provided in any of the foregoing disclosure embodiments is configured to implement the technical solution of the server in any of the foregoing method embodiments, and the implementation principle and the technical effect are similar, which are not described herein again.

The shared SIM card implementation apparatus in the above embodiments may be implemented as a server, wherein the specific manner in which the respective modules perform operations has been described in detail in the embodiments of the related method, and will not be described in detail herein. I.e. the internal functional modules and structural schematic of the server are described above.

Fig. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a terminal equipment entity according to an example embodiment. Referring to fig. 13, a terminal device provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a receiver, a transmitter, a memory, a processor, and a computer program, the processor running the computer program to perform:

receiving card resources of the first shared SIM card returned by the server;

Fig. 14 is a block diagram illustrating a server entity in accordance with an example embodiment. Referring to fig. 14, a server provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a receiver, a transmitter, a memory, a processor and a computer program, the processor running the computer program to execute;

In the above embodiments of the terminal device or the server, it should be understood that the Processor may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), other general-purpose processors, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), etc. The general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor or a processor, or any conventional processor, and the aforementioned memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a flash memory, a hard disk, or a solid state disk. The steps of a method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present invention may be directly implemented by a hardware processor, or may be implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the processor.

The application also provides a computer readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the technical solution of the method for implementing the shared SIM card of the terminal device provided in any of the foregoing solutions is implemented.

The present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the technical solution of the method for implementing the shared SIM card of the server according to any one of the foregoing aspects.

Referring to fig. 15, fig. 15 is a block diagram illustrating a terminal device 1200 according to an example embodiment. For example, the terminal device may be a user's mobile phone, a tablet, or the like.

Referring to fig. 15, terminal device 1200 may include one or more of the following components: processing component 1202, memory 1204, power component 1206, multimedia component 1208, audio component 1210, input/output (I/O) interface 1212, sensor component 1214, and communications component 1216.

The processing component 1202 generally controls overall operation of the terminal device 1200, such as operations associated with display, data communication, multimedia operations, and recording operations. The processing components 1202 may include one or more processors 1220 to execute instructions to perform all or a portion of the steps of the methods described above. Further, the processing component 1202 can include one or more modules that facilitate interaction between the processing component 1202 and other components. For example, the processing component 1202 can include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between the multimedia component 1208 and the processing component 1202.

The memory 1204 is configured to store various types of data to support operation at the terminal device 1200. Examples of such data include instructions for any application or method operating on terminal device 1200, various types of data, messages, pictures, videos, and so forth. The memory 1204 may be implemented by any type or combination of volatile or non-volatile memory devices such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disks.

Power supply components 1206 provide power to the various components of terminal device 1200. Power components 1206 may include a power management system, one or more power sources, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power for terminal device 1200.

The multimedia component 1208 includes a screen providing an output interface between the terminal device 1200 and the user. In some embodiments, the screen may include a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a Touch Panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive an input signal from a user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touch, slide, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may not only sense the boundary of a touch or slide action, but also detect the duration and pressure associated with the touch or slide operation.

Audio component 1210 is configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 1210 includes a Microphone (MIC) configured to receive an external audio signal when the terminal apparatus 1200 is in an operation mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signals may further be stored in the memory 1204 or transmitted via the communication component 1216. In some embodiments, audio assembly 1210 further includes a speaker for outputting audio signals.

The I/O interface 1212 provides an interface between the processing component 1202 and peripheral interface modules, which may be keyboards, click wheels, buttons, etc.

The sensor assembly 1214 includes one or more sensors for providing various aspects of state assessment for the terminal device 1200. For example, sensor assembly 1214 can detect an open/closed state of terminal device 1200, the relative positioning of components, such as a display and keypad of terminal device 1200, sensor assembly 1214 can also detect a change in position of terminal device 1200 or a component of terminal device 1200, the presence or absence of user contact with terminal device 1200, orientation or acceleration/deceleration of terminal device 1200, and a change in temperature of terminal device 1200. The sensor assembly 1214 may include a proximity sensor configured to detect the presence of a nearby object in the absence of any physical contact. The sensor assembly 1214 may also include a light sensor, such as a CMOS or CCD image sensor, for use in imaging applications. In some embodiments, the sensor assembly 1214 may also include an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope sensor, a magnetic sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.

Communications component 1216 is configured to facilitate communications between terminal device 1200 and other devices in a wired or wireless manner. The terminal device 1200 may access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi, 2G or 3G, or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 1216 receives the broadcast signal or broadcast related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communications component 1216 further includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communications. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, Bluetooth (BT) technology, and other technologies.

In an exemplary embodiment, the terminal device 1200 may be implemented by one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors or other electronic components for performing a shared SIM card implementation method, including:

receiving card resources of the first shared SIM card returned by the server;

In an exemplary embodiment, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions, such as memory 1204 comprising instructions, executable by processor 1220 of terminal device 1200 to perform the above-described method is also provided. For example, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium may be a ROM, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like.

Fig. 16 is a block diagram illustrating a server 1600 in accordance with an example embodiment. Referring to fig. 16, server 1600 includes a processing component 1622 that further includes one or more processors and memory resources, represented by memory 1632, for storing instructions, such as applications, that are executable by processing component 1622. The application programs stored in memory 1632 may include one or more modules that each correspond to a set of instructions. Furthermore, the processing component 1622 is configured to execute instructions to perform the above-mentioned server-side shared SIM card implementation method, including:

The server 1600 may also include a power component 1626 configured to perform power management for the device 1600, a wired or wireless network interface 1650 configured to connect the device 1600 to a network, and an input/output (I/O) interface 1658. The apparatus 1600 may operate based on an operating system stored in the memory 1632, such as Windows Server, Mac OS XTM, UnixTM, LinuxTM, FreeBSDTM, or the like.

Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.

It will be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise arrangements described above and shown in the drawings and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the invention is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method for realizing sharing SIM card is applied to terminal equipment, and comprises the following steps:

if the first shared SIM card purchased by the user is available, sending a shared SIM card using request to a server for managing the shared SIM card; the shared SIM card using request comprises an identifier of the first shared SIM card;

receiving card resources of the first shared SIM card returned by the server;

initiating network registration according to the card resource, and using the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is finished;

before sending a shared SIM card use request to a server managing the shared SIM card, the method further comprises;

receiving a shared SIM card state query result returned by the server, wherein the shared SIM card state query result is used for indicating the state of the first shared SIM card;

the initiating network registration according to the card resource and using the data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is completed includes:

receiving an authentication result returned by the server;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to sending the shared SIM card status query request to the server, the method further comprises:

starting a shared SIM card application program according to user operation;

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

and displaying the state inquiry result of the shared SIM card.

4. A method for implementing a shared SIM card is applied to a server for managing the shared SIM card, and comprises the following steps:

receiving a shared SIM card use request sent by terminal equipment; the shared SIM card using request comprises an identifier of a first shared SIM card;

sending the card resource of the first shared SIM card to the terminal equipment, wherein the card resource is used for network registration;

before the receiving of the shared SIM card use request sent by the terminal device, the method further includes:

sending the state query result of the shared SIM card to the terminal equipment;

the method further comprises the following steps:

receiving an authentication request sent by the terminal equipment;

and sending the authentication result to the terminal equipment.

5. An apparatus for implementing a shared SIM card, comprising:

the first sending module is configured to send a shared SIM card using request to a server for managing the shared SIM card if the first shared SIM card purchased by the user is available; the shared SIM card using request comprises an identifier of the first shared SIM card;

a first processing module configured to initiate network registration according to the card resource and use a data service of the first shared SIM card after the registration is completed;

the device further comprises;

a second receiving module, configured to receive a shared SIM card status query result returned by the server, where the shared SIM card status query result is used to indicate a status of the first shared SIM card;

6. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising: a second processing module configured to:

starting a shared SIM card application program according to user operation;

7. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising:

a display module configured to display the shared SIM card status query result.

8. An apparatus for implementing a shared SIM card, the apparatus comprising:

the first receiving module is configured to receive a shared SIM card using request sent by the terminal equipment; the shared SIM card using request comprises an identifier of a first shared SIM card;

a first sending module configured to send the card resource of the first shared SIM card to the terminal device, the card resource being used for network registration;

the device further comprises:

a second sending module configured to send the shared SIM card status query result to the terminal device;

9. A terminal device, comprising: a receiver, a transmitter, a memory, a processor, and a computer program, the processor running the computer program to perform:

receiving card resources of the first shared SIM card returned by the server;

before sending the shared SIM card use request to a server managing the shared SIM card,

receiving an authentication result returned by the server;

10. A server, comprising: a receiver, a transmitter, a memory, a processor, and a computer program, the processor running the computer program to perform:

before the receiving terminal device sends the shared SIM card use request,

receiving an authentication request sent by the terminal equipment;

and sending the authentication result to the terminal equipment.

11. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when executed by a processor, implements the shared SIM card implementation method of any one of claims 1 to 3.

12. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when executed by a processor, implements the shared SIM card implementation method of claim 4.