GB2452023A - A mobile phone that uses its connection to a network to automatically create backup copies of the SIM card - Google Patents

A mobile phone that uses its connection to a network to automatically create backup copies of the SIM card Download PDF

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GB2452023A
GB2452023A GB0714459A GB0714459A GB2452023A GB 2452023 A GB2452023 A GB 2452023A GB 0714459 A GB0714459 A GB 0714459A GB 0714459 A GB0714459 A GB 0714459A GB 2452023 A GB2452023 A GB 2452023A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H04M1/72406—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality by software upgrading or downloading
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/725—Cordless telephones
    • H04Q7/00—
    • H04Q7/20—
    • H04Q7/24—
    • H04Q7/32—
    • H04Q7/3205—
    • H04Q7/321—
    • H04Q7/3221—
    • H04Q7/3226—
    • H04Q7/3231—
    • H04Q7/38—
    • H04Q7/3883—
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/26—Devices for calling a subscriber
    • H04M1/27—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously
    • H04M1/274—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously with provision for storing more than one subscriber number at a time, e.g. using toothed disc
    • H04M1/2745—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously with provision for storing more than one subscriber number at a time, e.g. using toothed disc using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
    • H04M1/2753—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously with provision for storing more than one subscriber number at a time, e.g. using toothed disc using static electronic memories, e.g. chips providing data content
    • H04M1/2757—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously with provision for storing more than one subscriber number at a time, e.g. using toothed disc using static electronic memories, e.g. chips providing data content by data transmission, e.g. downloading
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
    • H04W4/12—Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W8/00—Network data management
    • H04W8/18—Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
    • H04W8/20—Transfer of user or subscriber data
    • H04W8/205—Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier

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Abstract

Almost all mobile phones Store data on the SIM card, some of this data having been generated by the user. The user involvement means that this data can not be automatically recreated should the device (and thus SIM card) be lost, stolen, or damaged. Whilst some network operators offer a service of creating a backup copy this requires a visit to one of their stores, no network operator uses the wireless connection to create a copy of the data on the SIM card and thus avoid loss of valuable data should the original SIM card become inaccessible through damage, loss or other cause.

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DESCRIPTION
Almost all mobile phones store data on the SIM card, some of this data having been generated by the user. The user involvement means that this data can not be automatically recreated should the device (and thus SIM card) be lost, stolen, or damaged. Whilst some network operators offer a service of creating a backup copy this requires a visit to one of their stores, no network operator uses the wireless connection to create a copy of the data on the SIM card and thus avoid loss of valuable data should the original SIM card become inaccessible through damage, loss or other cause.
Background
Mobile phones are now used by an estimated 2.7 billion people. Mobile phones commonly include an address book whereby the user can store frequently called numbers in memory. This data (amongst others) may be stored on the phones SIM card or on other memory on the phone. If the SIM card becomes inaccessible (stolen, lost, damaged, etc) then the data which the user has created and stored on the SIM is lost. This data loss is a common problem and despite the large number of mobile phones in existence there has been little attempt to address the issue.
The proposed invention is to use the connection to a network -which is implicit in a mobile phone -to create a copy of the information on the SIM card, allowing it to be recreated in the event of loss. This is superior to the current situation whereby either (i) all data is lost; (ii) or the user must manually create a backup via a physical connection, and all data since the last manual backup is lost.
Description
At the time when the SIM card is originally issued a duplicate copy of the data is created. When the user elects to modify the data on the SIM card the phone is designed to create a note of the alteration. This alteration data is notified to the network operator and the network operator updates the duplicate of the SIM card data.
Should the original SIM card data become inaccessible then the duplicate SIM card data is used to create a replacement SIM card which will automatically include all user created data that has been stored on the original SIM card.
The notification messages may (but do not need to be) sent in the form of text messages to a special number created by the network operator. This enables the implementation to use existing infrastructure and be implemented at lower cost.
The notification messages may be sent as soon as they are created, or instead the network operator may request the update messages from the phone during times of lower network utilisation thus reducing the peak load on the network.

Claims (3)

1. A design of mobile phone which uses the inherent network connectivity to create remote duplicate copies of user created information that has been stored on the SIM card, this remote information allowing a recreation of the original SIM data in the event it becomes unavailable through loss, damage or other causes
2. The method according to Claim I whereby the messages to update the duplicate are transmitted via the text messaging protocol
3. The method according to Claim I whereby the update messages are requested from the mobile phone by the network operator, thus allowing the network operator to schedule this data transfer for periods of lower network utilisation
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GB2392800A (en) * 2002-09-04 2004-03-10 Matchtip Ltd Backup system for data stored in remote data storage systems
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GB2358556A (en) * 1999-09-08 2001-07-25 Lg Inf & Comm Ltd Backup method for user data in mobile terminal
GB2373139A (en) * 2001-03-07 2002-09-11 Matchtip Ltd A backup system of data stored on a sim card of a mobile telephone
WO2002071219A2 (en) * 2001-03-07 2002-09-12 Matchtip Limited System for replicating data of a mobile station
GB2392800A (en) * 2002-09-04 2004-03-10 Matchtip Ltd Backup system for data stored in remote data storage systems
US20070168628A1 (en) * 2003-12-19 2007-07-19 Gemplus Method for backing up personal data of a telecommunications network subscriber, server and associated device

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN106937281A (en) * 2015-12-29 2017-07-07 中国移动通信集团公司 A kind of management method of terminal applies, device, terminal and server
CN106937281B (en) * 2015-12-29 2020-05-29 中国移动通信集团公司 Terminal application management method and device, terminal and server

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