CN112637820A - Embedded smart card management method and device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The application discloses a method and a device for managing an embedded smart card. The method comprises the following steps: responding to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for the current SlotID, and sending the information of the target eSIM card to a telephony manager; and under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID, wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an eUICC manager. The method provides a clear, convenient and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme for users, and can provide powerful support for the management of multi-eSIM cards in application scenes such as eMBB, URLLC, mMTC and the like of a future 5G slice network.
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Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to an embedded smart card management method and device.
Background
The embedded Subscriber identity module (esim) is used for remotely managing a plurality of mobile network operator personalized management services, and can enable a mobile Subscriber to download an operator configuration file and activate operator services without an entity Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card.
At present, devices supporting an eSIM card are peripheral auxiliary card devices such as watches, pads and the like surrounding mobile phone applications, and application scenes are mainly one number with multiple cards (or one card with multiple terminals). For example, an entity SIM master card set in the mobile phone is correspondingly configured with an eSIM secondary card with the same number in the watch.
With the richness of the types of intelligent terminals, the enhancement of hardware processing capability, the popularization of the internet of things and the richness of the use scenes of 5G network slices, the intelligent terminals are bound to be required to simultaneously support the use and management functions of a plurality of eSIM cards. However, a management method for a plurality of eSIM cards is now rarely seen.
Disclosure of Invention
Therefore, the application provides an embedded smart card management method and device to solve the problem of missing of use and management of multiple eSIM cards in the prior art.
In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present application provides an embedded smart card management method, including:
responding to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for the current SlotID, and sending the information of the target eSIM card to a telephony manager;
and under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID, wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an eUICC manager.
Before the responding to the target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID selected by the user for the current SlotID and sending the target eSIM card information to the telephony manager, the method further includes:
generating a corresponding Slot identification Slot ID based on the number of radio frequency hardware supported by the bottom layer of the terminal;
acquiring network identity identifiers EIDs of all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards eUICCs;
enumerating all the EIDs, reading the eSIM card information written in the eUICC, and generating an operator sub ID set.
After the target eSIM card completes operator network registration and establishes a mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID card, the method further includes:
and displaying the target eSIM card and the operator name corresponding to the target eSIM card.
In order to achieve the above object, a second aspect of the present application provides an embedded smart card management method, including:
displaying all the subids in the SubID set; the SubID set is a set generated by an operator manager based on eSIM card information written in all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards euiccs;
displaying the target eSIM card and an operator name corresponding to the target eSIM card under the condition that the operator manager establishes a mapping relation among a current SlotID, a target SubID and a target EID; wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
Before displaying all the subids in the SubID set, the method further includes:
sending a SubID request to an operator manager based on a current SlotID selected by a user;
and receiving the sub ID set returned by the operator manager.
In order to achieve the above object, a third aspect of the present application provides an embedded smart card management method, including:
receiving target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID;
loading the target eSIM card based on target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID;
registering the target eSIM card in an operator network, so that an operator manager establishes a mapping relation among a current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID, wherein the current SlotID is a card slot selected by a user, and the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
Wherein, before loading the target eSIM card based on the target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID, the method further includes:
and responding to the request for acquiring the quantity of the radio frequency hardware, and returning the quantity of the radio frequency hardware supported by the bottom layer of the terminal to the operator manager.
In order to achieve the above object, a fourth aspect of the present application provides an operator manager comprising:
the selection module is used for responding to a target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID selected by the user for the current SlotID;
the sending module is used for sending the target eSIM card information to a telephony manager;
a mapping module, configured to establish a mapping relationship between the current Slot ID, the target SubID, and the target EID when the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, where the target EID is one of EIDs of all available euiccs in an eUICC manager of an embedded universal integrated circuit card.
In order to achieve the above object, a fifth aspect of the present application provides a card slot manager, comprising:
the display module is used for displaying all the subids in the SubID set for the user; the SubID set is a set generated by an operator manager based on eSIM card information written in all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards euiccs;
displaying the target eSIM card and an operator name for providing service for the target eSIM card under the condition that the operator manager establishes a mapping relation among a current SlotID, a target SubID and a target EID; wherein the current SlotID is a card slot selected by a user, and the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
In order to achieve the above object, a sixth aspect of the present application provides a telephone manager comprising:
the receiving module is used for receiving target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID;
a loading module, configured to load a target eSIM card based on target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID;
a registration module, configured to register the target eSIM card in an operator network, so that an operator manager establishes a mapping relationship between a current SlotID, a target SubID, and a target EID, where the current SlotID is a card slot selected by a user, and the target EID is one of EIDs of all available euiccs in an embedded eUICC manager.
In order to achieve the above object, a seventh aspect of the present application provides an embedded smart card management apparatus, including:
the eUICC manager is used for downloading the configuration file of the operator and writing the configuration file into the eUICC;
the card slot manager is used for providing an operation interface; the card slot manager adopts the card slot manager of claim 9;
a phone manager, configured to load a target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID, and register the target eSIM card in an operator network; the telephone manager adopts the telephone manager of claim 10;
and the operator manager is used for managing the eUICC manager, the card slot manager and the telephone manager, responding to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for the current SlotID, and establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in the eUICC manager.
This application has following advantage:
the embedded smart card management method provided by the embodiment of the application responds to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for a current SlotID, establishes a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and a target EID under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, realizes flexible selection and combination of a terminal radio frequency module, eSIM information of the operator and an eUICC hardware chip of a terminal, provides a clear, convenient and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme for the user, and can provide powerful support for management of the multi-eSIM card in application scenes such as eMBB, URLLC and mMTC of a 5G slice network in the future.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embedded smart card management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 2 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 3 is a storage structure of mapping data according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 4 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 5 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 6 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 7 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 8 is a schematic block diagram of an operator manager provided in an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of a telephony manager provided in an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 10 is a schematic block diagram of an embedded smart card management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 11 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application.
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The following detailed description of embodiments of the present application will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the present application, are given by way of illustration and explanation only, and are not intended to limit the present application.
As used in this disclosure, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
The terminology used in the present disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the disclosure. As used in this disclosure, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
When the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising … …" are used in this disclosure, the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components are specified, but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
Embodiments of the present disclosure may be described with reference to plan and/or cross-sectional views in light of idealized schematic illustrations of the present disclosure. Accordingly, the example illustrations can be modified in accordance with manufacturing techniques and/or tolerances.
Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used in this disclosure have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and the present disclosure, and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.
In this embodiment, the embedded smart card management method is a management method for multiple eSIM cards, that is, a management method for multiple eSIM cards having independent mobile phone numbers in the same terminal.
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embedded smart card management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 1, the embedded smart card management apparatus includes a card slot manager 11, a phone (telephony) manager 12, a carrier manager 13, and an eUICC manager 14.
The card slot manager 11 belongs to an application layer, and can provide an operation interface for a user to display a card slot and select and switch an eSIM card.
The phone manager 12 belongs to the operating system layer and is responsible for interacting with the bottom baseband radio frequency module to complete basic communication management.
In some embodiments, the phone manager 12 is configured to obtain the number of the bottom layer rf modules, and report the number of the bottom layer rf modules to the carrier manager 13 to determine to display several card slots for the user. The card slot identification SlotID is the unique identification of the card slot. The number of card slots may be determined by the number of operator networks that are simultaneously on-line supported by the underlying radio frequency hardware of the terminal. When 2 carrier networks are supported to be online at the same time, Slot manager 11 may display Slot 1 and Slot 2.
The phone manager 12 is further configured to, according to an operator selected by the user, obtain and load an operator configuration parameter corresponding to the SubId in an interactive manner with the operator manager 13, where the operator identification SubId is a unique identifier of the operator, and implement loading and network registration of an eSIM card of the corresponding operator.
The operator manager 13 belongs to the operating system layer, which is distinct from the telephony manager and eUICC (embedded universal integrated circuit card) manager, does not interact with the physical hardware, and is responsible for managing the logical units of the abstract operator eSIM card. The operator manager 13 specifically functions to include:
the operator manager 13 interacts with the telephone manager to obtain the number of card slots supported by the terminal and identifies the card slots by the SlotID.
The operator manager 13 interacts with the eUICC manager 14, and loads an operator eSIM configuration file in the eUICC to form abstract individual subids (subscription ids) of different operators, where each SubID corresponds to network information of one operator. The network information of the operator includes, but is not limited to, operator configuration information such as a mobile phone number, an operator name, and an IMSI.
The carrier manager 13 provides a selectable SubID (eSIM card of a different carrier) for the card slot management 11 application.
In some embodiments, the number of subids may be less than the number of euiccs, because not all euiccs download write operator profiles and activate operator services as eSIM cards, possibly write other programs as embedded encryption cards, and so on. The network information of the SubID includes, but is not limited to, the operator configuration information such as the mobile phone number, the operator name, the IMSI, and the like
The eUICC manager 14 is responsible for enumerating all eUICC hardware, and indexing is performed through EID; and the system is responsible for downloading the operator configuration file and writing the operator configuration file into the eUICC chip of the application.
In some embodiments, the hardware layer comprises at least one radio frequency hardware and at least one eUICC hardware. For example, in this embodiment, the hardware layer includes first radio frequency hardware 15a and second radio frequency hardware 15b, and the hardware layer further includes a first eUICC16a, a second eUICC16b, and a third eUICC16 c.
In some embodiments, the application layer is signally connected to the operating system layer via A Programming Interface (API), and the operating system layer is signally connected to the Hardware layer via a Hardware Interface (Hardware Interface). For example, the first radio frequency hardware 15a and the second radio frequency hardware 15b are in signal connection with the phone manager 12 through APIs, and the first eUICC16a, the second eUICC16b, and the third eUICC16c are in signal connection with the eUICC manager 14 through APIs.
In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an embedded smart card management method, which may be applied to an operator manager.
Fig. 2 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 2, the embedded smart card management method includes:
step 201, responding to the target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID selected by the user for the current SlotID, and sending the information of the target eSIM card to the telephone manager.
In some embodiments, the card slot manager provides a card slot display to the user, who may know there are several card slots through the card slot manager. A user may select a card Slot for which the carrier manager is expected to configure an eSIM card as a target card Slot, which is represented by a Slot identification Slot ID.
The carrier manager, upon receiving a request that a user wishes to configure an eSIM card for a current SlotID, selects a target eSIM card from eSIM cards provided by the carrier.
In some embodiments, the carrier manager can provide a plurality of different carriers, and each carrier can provide one or more eSIM cards. The user may select a target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID for the current Slot ID from the SubID set provided by the operator manager, that is, the user may select one target operator first and select the target eSIM card provided by the target operator.
In some embodiments, after receiving a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user, an operator manager sends information of the target eSIM card to a phone manager, and the phone manager loads the target eSIM card and completes registration in an operator network.
And under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of the operator, establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID. The target EID is short for eUICC ID, is a globally unique physical identifier of the eUICC, is a 32-bit value, is stored in the ECASD of the eUICC, can be read but cannot be changed, and represents one of EIDs of all available euiccs in the eUICC manager of the embedded universal integrated circuit card in the embodiment of the present application. In some embodiments, the operator manager stores a mapping of the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID.
And the operator manager manages the use states of the current card slot, the operator and the eUICC through the mapping relation of the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID.
The network information of the target sub id includes, but is not limited to, operator configuration information such as a mobile phone number, an operator name, and an IMSI.
The carrier manager displays the target eSIM card and a carrier name corresponding to the target eSIM card.
Fig. 3 is a storage structure of mapping data according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Referring to fig. 3, if the number of radio frequency hardware supported by the terminal bottom layer is N, the phone manager includes N slotids, and the eUICC manager includes N subids and N EIDs, where the SlotID1 is the current SlotID, the SubID is the target SubID, and the EID1 is the target EID, so that the operator manager establishes a mapping relationship of the SlotID 1-SubID-EID 1. Wherein N is a positive integer.
In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 4, before sending the target eSIM card information to the phone manager in response to the target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID selected by the user for the current SlotID in step 201, the method further includes:
In some embodiments, the operator manager sends the number of the radio frequency hardware supported by the terminal bottom layer to the telephone manager, and the telephone manager determines the number of the radio frequency hardware according to the number of the operator networks simultaneously supported by the terminal bottom layer hardware online, and returns the number of the radio frequency hardware to the operator manager.
And 402, acquiring network identity identifiers (EIDs) of all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards (eUICCs).
In some embodiments, the operator manager sends an EID (network identity) to the eUICC manager that obtains all available euiccs.
In some embodiments, the carrier manager enumerates all EIDs, reads eSIM card information written in each eUICC, and generates a carrier sub id set. Wherein, the operator SubID set is a set of all available euiccs.
And the user selects the target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID for the current SlotID according to the SubID set, so that the selection efficiency and reliability can be improved.
In some embodiments, after establishing a mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID card after the target eSIM card completes operator network registration in step 202, the method further includes:
and displaying the target eSIM card and the name of an operator of the target eSIM card for providing the network service.
In this embodiment, the operator server displays the target eSIM card for the user, and an operator name for providing a network service for the target eSIM card, which is convenient for management.
It should be noted that the operator manager may manage multiple operators, and each operator SubID may provide one or more eSIM cards, so that a user may use an eSIM card provided by a different operator as a target eSIM card, or may select one of the eSIM cards provided by the same operator as the target eSIM card.
The embedded smart card management method provided by the embodiment of the application responds to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for a current SlotID, establishes a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and a target EID under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, realizes flexible selection and combination of a terminal radio frequency module, eSIM information of the operator and an eUICC hardware chip of a terminal, provides a clear, convenient and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme for the user, and can provide powerful support for management of the multi-eSIM card in application scenes such as eMBB, URLLC and mMTC of a 5G slice network in the future.
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an embedded smart card management method, which may be applied to a card slot manager.
Fig. 5 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 5, the embedded smart card management method includes:
in step 501, all the subids in the SubID set are displayed.
Wherein the SubID set is a set generated by the operator manager based on eSIM card information written in all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards euiccs. In other words, only the eUICC that writes eSIM card information can become a member of the SubID set.
In some embodiments, the carrier manager generates the SubID set after reading the eSIM card information written in the eUICC based on the EIDs of all available euiccs provided by the eUICC manager. When a user requests an eSIM card for a current Slot ID, the carrier manager displays a set of subids to the user. The SubID set refers to a set of available subids.
Wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in the eUICC manager.
In some embodiments, after receiving a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user, an operator manager sends information of the target eSIM card to a phone manager, and the phone manager loads the target eSIM card and completes registration in an operator network.
And under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of the operator, establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID. Wherein the target EID (network identity) is the usage status of the target eUICC. In some embodiments, the operator manager stores a mapping of the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID.
In some embodiments, the card slot manager displays the target eSIM card, the carrier name corresponding to the target eSIM card.
In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 6, step 501, based on the user selecting a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID from the set of subids, inserts the target eSIM card before the current SlotID, further includes:
In some embodiments, the card Slot manager includes at least one Slot ID from which the user selects a Slot ID as the current Slot ID in order to configure the target eSIM card for the current Slot ID. The card Slot manager sends a get SubID request to the carrier manager based on the current Slot ID selected by the user.
And after receiving the request of the card slot manager, the operator manager returns a SubID set to the card slot manager for the user to select.
In the method for managing an embedded smart card provided by this embodiment, all the subids in the SubID set are displayed; and under the condition that the operator manager establishes the mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID, displaying the target eSIM card and the operator name corresponding to the target eSIM card, realizing flexible selection and combination of a terminal radio frequency module, operator eSIM information and a terminal eUICC hardware chip, providing a clear, convenient and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme for a user, and providing powerful support for management of the multi-eSIM card in application scenes such as eMBB, URLLC, mMTC and the like of a future 5G slice network.
In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an embedded smart card management method for a phone manager.
Fig. 7 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 7, the embedded smart card management method includes:
And after receiving the target eSIM card message corresponding to the target subiD selected by the user, the operator manager sends the target eSIM card message corresponding to the target subiD to the telephone manager.
In some embodiments, after receiving a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user, an operator manager sends information of the target eSIM card to a phone manager, and the phone manager loads the target eSIM card and completes registration in an operator network.
And step 703, registering the target eSIM card in the operator network, so that the operator manager establishes a mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID.
Wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
And under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of the operator, establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID. Wherein the target EID (network identity) is the usage status of the target eUICC. In some embodiments, the operator manager stores a mapping of the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID.
In some embodiments, before loading the target eSIM card to complete the network registration of the operator in response to the target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID in step 702, the method further includes:
and responding to the request for acquiring the quantity of the radio frequency hardware, and returning the quantity of the radio frequency hardware supported by the bottom layer of the terminal to the operator manager.
In some embodiments, the operator manager sends the number of the radio frequency hardware supported by the terminal bottom layer to the telephone manager, and the telephone manager determines the number of the radio frequency hardware according to the number of the operator networks simultaneously supported by the terminal bottom layer hardware online, and returns the number of the radio frequency hardware to the operator manager.
According to the embedded smart card management method provided by the embodiment of the application, the target eSIM card is loaded based on the target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID; registering the target eSIM card in an operator network so as to enable an operator manager to establish a mapping relation among the current Slot ID, the target SubID and the target EID, realize flexible selection and combination of a terminal radio frequency module, operator eSIM information and a terminal eUICC hardware chip, provide a clear, convenient and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme for a user, and provide powerful support for management of the multi-eSIM card in application scenes such as eMBB, URLLC, mMTC and the like of a 5G slice network in the future.
In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an operator manager. Fig. 8 is a schematic block diagram of an operator manager according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
Referring to fig. 8, the operator manager includes:
a selecting module 801, configured to respond to a selection by a user of a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID for a current SlotID.
In some embodiments, the card slot manager provides a card slot display to the user, who may know there are several card slots through the card slot manager. A user may select one card slot as a target card slot for which the carrier manager is expected to configure an eSIM card.
The selection module 801 selects a target eSIM card from eSIM cards provided by an operator, upon receiving a request that a user wishes to configure an eSIM card for a current SlotID.
In some embodiments, the carrier manager can provide a plurality of different carriers, and each carrier can provide one or more eSIM cards. The user may select a target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID for the current Slot ID from the SubID set provided by the operator manager, that is, the user may select one target operator first and select the target eSIM card provided by the target operator.
A sending module 802, configured to send the target eSIM card information to the phone manager.
A mapping module 803, configured to establish a mapping relationship between the current Slot ID, the target SubID, and the target EID when the target eSIM card completes operator network registration.
Wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
In some embodiments, after receiving a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user, an operator manager sends information of the target eSIM card to a phone manager, and the phone manager loads the target eSIM card and completes registration in an operator network.
And under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of the operator, establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID. Wherein the target EID (network identity) is the usage status of the target eUICC. In some embodiments, the operator manager stores a mapping of the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID.
And the operator manager manages the use states of the current card slot, the operator and the eUICC through the mapping relation of the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID.
The network information of the target sub id includes, but is not limited to, operator configuration information such as a mobile phone number, an operator name, and an IMSI.
The carrier manager displays the target eSIM card and a carrier name corresponding to the target eSIM card.
In the operator manager provided in this embodiment, the selection module is configured to respond to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for a current SlotID; the sending module is used for sending the target eSIM card information to a telephony manager; the mapping module is used for establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, so that flexible selection and combination of a terminal radio frequency module, eSIM information of the operator and an eUICC hardware chip are realized, a clear, convenient and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme is provided for a user, and powerful support can be provided for management of the multi-eSIM card in application scenes such as eMBB, URLLC, mMTC and the like of a 5G slice network in the future.
In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a card slot manager. The card slot manager includes:
the display module is used for displaying all the subids in the SubID set for the user; the SubID set is a set generated by the operator manager based on eSIM card information written in all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards euiccs.
The display module is further configured to display the target eSIM card and an operator name for providing a service for the target eSIM card when the operator manager establishes a mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID.
Wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
In the card slot manager provided in this embodiment, the display module displays the target eSIM card and an operator name for providing service to the target eSIM card when the operator manager establishes a mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID, so that flexible selection and combination of a terminal radio frequency module, the operator eSIM information, and a terminal eUICC hardware chip are realized, a clear, convenient, and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme is provided for a user, and a strong support can be provided for management of multi-eSIM cards in application scenarios such as eMBB, URLLC, mtc of a future 5G slice network.
In a sixth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a phone manager. Fig. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a telephone manager according to an embodiment of the present application.
Referring to fig. 9, the embodiment of the present application provides a telephony manager including: a telephony manager, comprising:
a receiving module 901, configured to receive target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID.
And after receiving the target eSIM card message corresponding to the target subiD selected by the user, the operator manager sends the target eSIM card message corresponding to the target subiD to the telephone manager.
A loading module 902, configured to load the target eSIM card based on the target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID.
In some embodiments, after receiving a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user, an operator manager sends information of the target eSIM card to a phone manager, and the phone manager loads the target eSIM card and completes registration in an operator network.
A registering module 903, configured to register the target eSIM card in an operator network, so that an operator manager establishes a mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID.
Wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
And under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of the operator, establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID. Wherein the target EID (network identity) is the usage status of the target eUICC. In some embodiments, the operator manager stores a mapping of the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID.
According to the embedded smart card management method provided by the embodiment of the application, a loading module loads a target eSIM card based on target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID; the registration module is used for registering the target eSIM card in an operator network, so that an operator manager establishes a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID, flexible selection and combination of a terminal radio frequency module, operator eSIM information and a terminal eUICC hardware chip are realized, a clear, convenient and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme is provided for a user, and powerful support can be provided for management of the multi-eSIM card in application scenes such as eMBB, URLLC, mMTC and the like of a future 5G slice network.
In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an embedded smart card management apparatus. Fig. 10 is a schematic block diagram of an embedded smart card management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.
Referring to fig. 10, an embedded smart card management apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:
an eUICC manager 1001, configured to download an operator configuration file and write the operator configuration file into the eUICC;
a card slot manager 1002 for providing an operation interface; the card slot manager adopts the card slot manager of claim 9;
a phone manager 1003, configured to load a target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID and register the target eSIM card in an operator network; the telephone manager adopts the telephone manager of claim 10;
an operator manager 1004, configured to manage the eUICC manager, the card slot manager, and the phone manager, respond to a user to select a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID for a current SlotID, and establish a mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID when the target eSIM card completes operator network registration, where the target EID is one of EIDs of all available euiccs in an embedded eUICC manager.
The embedded smart card management device provided by the embodiment of the application can realize flexible selection and combination of a terminal radio frequency module, operator eSIM information and a terminal eUICC hardware chip, provides a clear, convenient and reliable multi-SIM card management scheme for a user, and can provide powerful support for management of multi-eSIM cards in application scenes such as eMBB, URLLC and mMTC of a future 5G slice network.
For a better understanding of the present application, the following is further exemplified in connection with embedded smart card management methods and apparatus.
Fig. 11 is a flowchart of an embedded smart card management method according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 11, the embedded smart card management method includes:
in step 1101, the operator manager sends a request for acquiring the number of radio frequency hardware supported by the terminal bottom layer to the phone manager.
In step 1102, the phone manager returns the number of rf hardware to the carrier manager based on the rf hardware supported by the terminal bottom layer.
In step 1104, the operator manager sends the eUICC manager an EID that obtains all available euiccs.
In step 1105, the eUICC manager returns the EIDs of all available euiccs to the operator manager.
In step 1106, the operator manager enumerates all EIDs, reads the information of the eSIM card written in the eUICC, and generates an available SubID set.
It should be noted that steps 1101 to 1106 may be completed after the terminal is powered on, that is, the initialization process after the terminal is powered on may be performed according to steps 1101 to 1106.
In step 1107, the card slot manager sends the current SlotID selected by the user to the carrier manager.
The carrier manager will return the set of available subids to the card slot manager, step 1108.
In step 1109, the card slot manager sends the target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID selected by the user from the available SubID set to the carrier manager.
In step 1110, the carrier manager transmits the target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID to the phone manager.
At step 1111, the telephony manager loads the target eSIM card and completes the registration in the carrier network.
The phone manager sends a message to the carrier manager that the registration is complete, step 1112.
In step 1114, the carrier manager sends a message of the phone number and the carrier name corresponding to the target eSIM card to the card slot manager, so that the card slot manager displays the phone number and the carrier name corresponding to the target eSIM card.
Each module in the present embodiment is a logical module, and in practical applications, one logical unit may be one physical unit, may be a part of one physical unit, or may be implemented by a combination of a plurality of physical units. In addition, in order to highlight the innovative part of the present application, a unit that is not so closely related to solving the technical problem proposed by the present application is not introduced in the present embodiment, but it does not indicate that no other unit exists in the present embodiment.
The present embodiments also provide an electronic device, comprising one or more processors; the storage device stores one or more programs, and when the one or more programs are executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processors implement the embedded smart card management method provided in this embodiment.
The present embodiment further provides a computer readable medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the embedded smart card management method provided in this embodiment, and in order to avoid repeated descriptions, specific steps of the embedded smart card management method are not described herein again.
It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that all or some of the steps of the methods, systems, functional modules/units in the devices disclosed above may be implemented as software, firmware, hardware, and suitable combinations thereof. In a hardware implementation, the division between functional modules/units mentioned in the above description does not necessarily correspond to the division of physical components; for example, one physical component may have multiple functions, or one function or step may be performed by several physical components in cooperation. Some or all of the physical components may be implemented as software executed by a processor, such as a central processing unit, digital signal processor, or microprocessor, or as hardware, or as an integrated circuit, such as an application specific integrated circuit. Such software may be distributed on computer readable media, which may include computer storage media (or non-transitory media) and communication media (or transitory media). The term computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data, as is well known to those of ordinary skill in the art. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, Digital Versatile Disks (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by a computer. In addition, communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media as known to those skilled in the art.
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.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that although some embodiments described herein include some features included in other embodiments instead of others, combinations of features of different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the embodiments and form different embodiments.
It is to be understood that the above embodiments are merely exemplary embodiments that are employed to illustrate the principles of the present application, and that the present application is not limited thereto. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the application, and these changes and modifications are to be considered as the scope of the application.
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1. An embedded smart card management method, comprising:
responding to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for the current SlotID, and sending the information of the target eSIM card to a telephony manager;
and under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID, wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an eUICC manager.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein before sending the target eSIM card information to a telephony manager in response to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for a current SlotID, further comprising:
generating a corresponding card slot identifier SlotID based on the number of radio frequency hardware supported by the bottom layer of the terminal;
acquiring network identity identifiers EIDs of all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards eUICCs;
enumerating all the EIDs, reading the eSIM card information written in the eUICC, and generating an operator sub ID set.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein after establishing the mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID card after the target eSIM card completes operator network registration, further comprising:
and displaying the target eSIM card and the operator name corresponding to the target eSIM card.
4. An embedded smart card management method, comprising:
displaying all the subids in the SubID set; the SubID set is a set generated by an operator manager based on eSIM card information written in all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards euiccs;
displaying the target eSIM card and an operator name corresponding to the target eSIM card under the condition that the operator manager establishes a mapping relation among a current SlotID, a target SubID and a target EID; wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein before displaying all the subids in the set of subids, further comprising:
sending a SubID request to an operator manager based on a current SlotID selected by a user;
and receiving the sub ID set returned by the operator manager.
6. An embedded smart card management method, comprising:
receiving target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID;
loading the target eSIM card based on target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID;
registering the target eSIM card in an operator network, so that an operator manager establishes a mapping relation among a current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID, wherein the current SlotID is a card slot selected by a user, and the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein before loading the target eSIM card based on the target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID, further comprising:
and responding to the request for acquiring the quantity of the radio frequency hardware, and returning the quantity of the radio frequency hardware supported by the bottom layer of the terminal to the operator manager.
8. An operator manager, comprising:
the selection module is used for responding to a target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID selected by the user for the current SlotID;
the sending module is used for sending the target eSIM card information to a telephony manager;
a mapping module, configured to establish a mapping relationship between the current SlotID, the target SubID, and the target EID when the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, where the target EID is one of EIDs of all available euiccs in an eUICC manager of an embedded universal integrated circuit card.
9. A card slot manager, comprising:
the display module is used for displaying all the subids in the SubID set for the user; the SubID set is a set generated by an operator manager based on eSIM card information written in all available embedded universal integrated circuit cards euiccs;
displaying the target eSIM card and an operator name for providing service for the target eSIM card under the condition that the operator manager establishes a mapping relation among a current SlotID, a target SubID and a target EID; wherein the current SlotID is a card slot selected by a user, and the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in an embedded universal integrated circuit card eUICC manager.
10. A telephony manager, comprising:
the receiving module is used for receiving target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID;
a loading module, configured to load a target eSIM card based on target eSIM card information corresponding to the target SubID;
a registration module, configured to register the target eSIM card in an operator network, so that an operator manager establishes a mapping relationship between a current SlotID, a target SubID, and a target EID, where the current SlotID is a card slot selected by a user, and the target EID is one of EIDs of all available euiccs in an embedded eUICC manager.
11. An embedded smart card management device, comprising:
the eUICC manager is used for downloading the configuration file of the operator and writing the configuration file into the eUICC;
the card slot manager is used for providing an operation interface; the card slot manager adopts the card slot manager of claim 9;
a phone manager, configured to load a target eSIM card corresponding to the target SubID, and register the target eSIM card in an operator network; the telephone manager adopts the telephone manager of claim 10;
and the operator manager is used for managing the eUICC manager, the card slot manager and the telephone manager, responding to a target eSIM card corresponding to a target SubID selected by a user for the current SlotID, and establishing a mapping relation among the current SlotID, the target SubID and the target EID under the condition that the target eSIM card completes network registration of an operator, wherein the target EID is one of EIDs of all available eUICCs in the eUICC manager.
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