KR101956257B1 - System and method for providing virtual Universal Subscriber Identity Module - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a virtual universal subscriber identity module that is capable of virtualizing a universal subscriber identity module card and authentication, applying the virtual universal subscriber identity module to domestic and international communication company services, without any exchange of the universal subscriber identity module card, and automatically converting the universal subscriber identity module card and the virtual universal subscriber identity module according to an object providing communication. According to the present invention, the system for providing a virtual universal subscriber identity module includes: a universal subscriber identity module card (100); a mobile communication terminal (200); an international mobile communication network (300); a virtual universal subscriber identity module providing server (400); and an authentication server (400a), wherein the mobile communication terminal (200) includes: an information providing module (221); a transmitting and receiving part (210) for accessing to the virtual universal subscriber identity module providing server (400) through the international mobile communication network (300); and an authentication providing module (222) for controlling the transmitting and receiving part (210) to receive terminal information request from the virtual universal subscriber identity module providing server (400) through the international mobile communication network (300). According to the present invention, a real universal subscriber identity module is not purchased overseas through the use of one communication company universal subscriber identity module card, and the virtual universal subscriber identity module is purchased through a mobile application, thereby maintaining roaming in the domestic communication. Further, the information on the universal subscriber identity module is switched according to the domestic international communication objects, thereby determining communication billing, and also, the universal subscriber identity module authentication virtualization is used to automatically select the universal subscriber identity module according to the communication providing object. In addition, data in other countries as well as calling can be utilized through the virtual universal subscriber identity module provided in the mobile application.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing virtual wisdom,

More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for providing a virtual wakeup service, and more particularly, to a method and system for providing a virtual wakeup service by virtualizing a woofer card and a woofer authentication, To a virtual wanderer providing system and method for automatically converting and using the virtual wanderer.

Currently, the method of using data and telephone from overseas through a mobile communication terminal manufactured in Korea is divided into a roaming service method and a method of purchasing a local wisdom card of a visiting country.

First of all, the roaming service should be applied for overseas use through the user's telecommunication company, and it is quick and convenient in application and billing. However, .

Another way to solve the costly problem is to purchase and use a local wisdom card from a visiting country. The method of purchasing the local wisdom card is advantageous in terms of cost, but it causes inconvenience of storing the wisdom card for domestic use separately at the time of purchase and the language barrier in the purchase procedure. In addition, the use of the data-only wake-up card often blocks emergency calls and similar inconveniences by blocking the telephone in the user's country.

Korean Patent Application No. 10-2004-0081819 "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMS BASED SERVICE WITHOUT BOUND ROAMING SUBSCRIBER" for foreign roaming subscribers

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a virtual- And to provide a system and method for providing a wakeup service.

In addition, the present invention not only allows information to be exchanged by switching wisdom information according to the distinction of the communication subjects in the domestic and foreign countries, but also allows the wisdom to be automatically selected according to the communication providing entity using wisdom authentication virtualization And to provide a virtual wake-up providing system and method.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a virtual wiggle providing system and method for making it possible to apply not only a call through a virtual wiggle provided by a mobile app but also data of other stations.

However, the objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, a virtual watershed providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a Universal Subscriber Identity Module card 100, a mobile communication terminal 200, an overseas mobile communication network 300, A virtual wander providing server 400 and an authentication server 400a, the mobile communication terminal 200 includes an information providing module 221; And the virtual shudder providing server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 after controlling the transmitting and receiving unit 210 to access the virtual shudder providing server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300. [ An authentication providing module 222 for controlling the transceiver 210 to receive a terminal information request to the mobile communication terminal 200; And the authentication providing module 222 provides the terminal information stored in the own memory of the woofer card 100 to the woofer card 100 by the information providing module 221 through the woofer I / And transmits the generated authentication token to the virtual wobble providing server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 to control the transmitting and receiving unit 210 to generate and transmit an authentication token to the virtual wobble providing server 400, The authentication server 400a provides the authentication token received by the server 400 to complete authentication by the authentication server 400a.

In the virtual wiggle providing system according to another embodiment of the present invention, the authentication server 400a receives the authentication token and transmits the authentication token to the domestic mobile communication server 600 connected to the domestic mobile communication network 600 via the foreign mobile communication network 300 When the authentication information is identical according to the authentication of the terminal information by the authentication token decryption by the mobile communication company server 700 according to the authentication token provision and verification request to the authentication server 700, the authentication is completed.

In the virtual wiggle providing system according to another embodiment of the present invention, the authentication providing module 222 receives authentication information indicating that the authentication is completed through the foreign mobile communication network 300 from the virtual wiggle providing server 400 And controls the transmission / reception unit 210 so that

In addition, in the virtual wiggle providing system according to another embodiment of the present invention, the authentication providing module 222 may be configured to transmit the wastewater I / F 224 before driving the domestic procedure module 224 and the foreign procedure module 225, And a terminal information checking step of checking whether or not the stored terminal number is provided in accordance with the information providing module 221 through the wired card 100 through the terminal 420, Providing module 223; Further comprising:

In addition, in the virtual wiggle providing system according to another embodiment of the present invention, the virtual wiggle providing module 223 may transmit the virtual wiggling acceptance to the virtual wiggle providing server 400, And controls the transmitting and receiving unit 210 to store the virtual wush certificate, which finally grants the virtual wush to the authentication, to the database together with the authentication token.

The system and method for providing a virtual wiggle center according to an embodiment of the present invention can provide a virtual wiggle providing system and method capable of maintaining roaming with respect to domestic communication by purchasing a virtual wiggle through a mobile app, Effect.

In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a system and method for providing a virtual wiggle can not only communicate information by switching wisdom information according to the distinction of a communication subject between domestic and foreign countries, It is possible to provide the effect of automatically selecting the wicket according to the providing subject.

In addition, the virtual wiggle providing system and method according to another embodiment of the present invention can provide not only a call but also an effect applicable to utilization of data of other stations through virtual wiggles provided by a mobile app.

1 is a view showing a system 1 for providing a virtual watershed according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a view showing the components of the mobile communication terminal 200 among the virtual buffer system 1 of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating a procedure for authenticating virtual virtual hearts in a virtual virtual bridge according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a virtual buffer for domestic origination in the method of providing a virtual buffer according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a virtual buffer for foreign origination in the method of providing a virtual buffer according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention will be given with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

In the present specification, when any one element 'transmits' data or signals to another element, the element can transmit the data or signal directly to the other element, and through at least one other element Data or signal can be transmitted to another component.

1 is a view showing a system 1 for providing a virtual watershed according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a view showing the components of the mobile communication terminal 200 among the virtual buffer system 1 of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, a virtual wiggle providing system 1 includes a Universal Subscriber Identity Module card 100, a mobile communication terminal 200, an overseas mobile communication network 300, A server 400, an authentication server 400a, an overseas mobile communication company server 500, a domestic mobile communication network 600, a domestic mobile communication server server 700, a first calling terminal 800a capable of making origination and data requests in Korea, And a second calling terminal 800b capable of making an outgoing call and requesting data from abroad.

2, the mobile communication terminal 200 includes a transmission / reception unit 210, a control unit 220, a storage unit 230, a wired interface (hereinafter referred to as a wake I / F) And an input / output unit 250.

The control unit 220 may include an information providing module 221, an authentication providing module 222, a virtual wakeup providing module 223, a domestic procedure module 224, and an overseas procedure module 225. Hereinafter, the virtual watershed providing system 1 will be described in detail with reference to the configuration of the controller 220. [

The information providing module 221 receives the request for providing the terminal information from the woofer card 100 from the woofer I / F 240 according to the connection to the woofer card 100 and the woofer I / F 240, By returning the terminal information to the woofer card 100, the terminal information is stored in its own memory (not shown) of the woofer card 100. The information providing module 221 may receive the personal information stored in the own memory of the worm card 100 via the worm I / F 240 and store the received personal information in the storage unit 230.

Herein, the terminal information may include international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) information. In addition to the user identification ID corresponding to the subscriber information loaded on the woofer card 100, the personal information may include a request from the mobile communication terminal 200 And contact information received from the mobile communication terminal 200 according to the received information.

The information providing module 221 includes an authentication providing module 222 that configures a virtual waking mobile application on a system memory (not shown) according to an execution request for the virtual waking mobile application stored in the storage unit 230, The foreign module 223, the domestic procedure module 224 and the foreign procedure module 225 in the foreground state by loading and executing them.

The authentication providing module 222 controls the transmitting and receiving unit 210 to access the virtual wormhole providing server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 and then transmits the virtual wormhole providing server 400 to the overseas Receiver 210 to receive the terminal information request to the mobile communication terminal 200 through the communication network 300. [

The authentication providing module 222 requests the worm card 100 to provide the terminal information stored in the own memory of the worm card 100 by the information providing module 221 through the worm I / F 240 The terminal information can be returned.

The authentication providing module 222 controls the transmitting and receiving unit 210 to generate and issue an authentication token that encodes the terminal information to the virtual wander providing server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300, May provide the authentication token received by the authentication server 400a to complete the authentication by the authentication server 400a. In one embodiment of the present invention, the authentication server 400a receives the authentication token and provides authentication token to the domestic mobile communication company server 700 connected to the domestic mobile communication network 600 via the foreign mobile communication network 300, According to the request, the mobile communication company server 700 can confirm the terminal information by the authentication token decryption and can complete the authentication if they match.

The authentication providing module 222 may control the transmitting and receiving unit 210 to receive the authentication information indicating that the authentication is completed through the foreign mobile communication network 300 from the virtual shudder providing server 400. [

The virtual watershed providing module 223 sends the watership card 100 to the information providing module 221 via the watersport I / F 420 before driving the domestic procedure module 224 and the foreign procedure module 225 And performs a terminal information checking process for checking whether or not the stored terminal number matches the current terminal number, thereby completing the virtual wisdom use preparation.

The virtual wigginess providing module 223 transmits a virtual wiggle acceptance request to the virtual wiggle providing server 400 so that the virtual wiggle providing server 400 finally accepts the virtual wiggle acceptance by the virtual wiggle providing server 400 together with the authentication token And controls the transmission / reception unit 210 to store it in the database.

The domestic procedure module 224 transmits the data to the domestic mobile communication company server 700 in response to a call or data transmission / reception request by the first calling terminal 800a requesting communication or data transmission / reception with respect to the mobile communication terminal 200 in Korea Reception unit 210 to receive an originating request or a data transmission / reception request through the domestic mobile communication network 600 and the foreign mobile communication network 700. [

The domestic procedure module 224 transmits the terminal information of the mobile communication terminal 200 to the virtual wander server 400 connected to the foreign mobile communication network 700 in response to the transmission of the originating data or the data transmission / , The first sending terminal 800a controls the transmitting / receiving unit 210 to provide the 'communication information' including the calling and calling amount and the data amount by the first calling terminal 800a, The virtual wisdom certificate registered in the database is searched in advance for the communication terminal 200 and if it is searched, the transfer request to the woofer card 100 for the communication information is matched with the woofer card 100, And controls the transmission / reception unit 210 to receive the data.

The domestic procedure module 224 performs data and currency authentication according to authentication using the terminal information to provide communication information to the worm card 100 and then transmits the worm I / F 420 to the worm card 100 It is possible to provide communication information and store it in its own memory.

The domestic procedure module 224 uses the communication information stored in the worm card 100 to access the domestic mobile communication company server 700 connected to the domestic mobile communication network 600 via the foreign mobile communication network 300 and the domestic mobile communication network 600, To control the transceiver 210 to provide a charging request.

Meanwhile, the above-described domestic procedure module 224 corresponds to the virtual wake-up, which is distinguished from the actual wake card 100, and the foreign procedure module 225 described later uses the actual wake card 100 The control unit 220 of the mobile communication terminal 200 virtualizes the woofer card and woofer authentication and switches to another communication company service without wakeup exchange and automatically converts the woofer and virtual woofer according to the communication provider have.

The foreign procedure module 225 may transmit the foreign data to the foreign mobile communication company server 300 by the foreign mobile communication company server 300 in response to a transmission request from the second calling terminal 800b requesting communication or data transmission / And controls the transmission / reception unit 210 to receive a call or a data transmission / reception request to the mobile communication terminal 200 through the communication network 300.

The foreign procedure module 225 transmits the request for data transmission and reception by the foreign mobile communication company server 700 to the virtual shush server 600 connected to the foreign mobile communication network 700 by the second calling terminal 800b By using the terminal information of the mobile communication terminal 200 included in the communication information by the virtual wander providing server 600 by controlling the transmission / reception unit 210 to provide the 'communication information' including the calling, And carries out data and call authentication for the mobile communication terminal 200.

The foreign procedure module 225 transmits the charging request to the foreign mobile communication company server 700 connected to the foreign mobile communication network 300 using the communication information provided to the virtual wander providing server 600, Can be controlled.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating a procedure for authenticating virtual virtual hearts in a virtual virtual bridge according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. 3, the woofer card 100 transmits a terminal information providing request from the mobile communication terminal 200 to the mobile communication terminal 200 in accordance with the connection to the woofer I / F 240 of the mobile communication terminal 200 And also transmits the personal information stored in the own memory of the wicked card 100 to the mobile communication terminal 200 (S11).

Herein, the terminal information may include international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) information. In addition to the user identification ID corresponding to the subscriber information loaded on the woofer card 100, the personal information may include a request from the mobile communication terminal 200 And contact information received from the mobile communication terminal 200 according to the received information.

After step S11, the waking card 100 stores the terminal information received from the mobile communication terminal 200 in its own memory according to step S11 (S12).

After step S12, the mobile communication terminal 200 loads and executes the virtual wisdom mobile application on the system memory in response to the execution request for the virtual wisdom mobile application stored in the storage unit 230, foreground) state (S13).

After step S13, the virtual wisdom mobile application of the mobile communication terminal 200 accesses the virtual wisdom providing server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 (S14).

After step S14, the virtual wander providing server 400 requests terminal information to the mobile communication terminal 200 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 (S15).

After step S15, the virtual walrus mobile app of the mobile communication terminal 200 requests the walks card 100 to provide the terminal information stored in step S12 via the wake-up I / F 240 S16).

After step S16, the woofer card 100 provides the terminal information through the wake-up I / F 240 to the virtual wake-up mobile app of the mobile communication terminal 200 (S17).

After step S17, the virtual walrus mobile app of the mobile communication terminal 200 generates and transmits an authentication token that encodes the terminal information to the virtual wobble providing server 400 via the foreign mobile communication network 300 (S18).

After step S18, the virtual wiggle providing server 400 provides the received authentication token to the authentication server 400a to complete the authentication by the authentication server 400a (S19). In one embodiment of the present invention, the authentication server 400a receives the authentication token and provides authentication token to the domestic mobile communication company server 700 connected to the domestic mobile communication network 600 via the foreign mobile communication network 300, According to the request, the mobile communication company server 700 can confirm the terminal information by the authentication token decryption and can complete the authentication if they match.

After step S19, the virtual wiggle providing server 400 transmits authentication information indicating that authentication is completed to the mobile communication terminal 200 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 (S20).

After step S20, the virtual rogue mobile app of the mobile communication terminal 200 transmits the roaming number to the roaming card 100 via the roaming I / F 420 in accordance with step S12, (S21), and completes the virtual wisdom use preparation.

After step S21, the virtual wisdom mobile app of the mobile communication terminal 200 transmits virtual wisdom approval to the virtual wisdom providing server 400 (S22).

After step S22, the virtual wiggle-providing server 400 stores the virtual wiggle certificate finally granting the virtual wiggly approval, together with the authentication token, in the database (S23).

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a virtual buffer for domestic origination in the method of providing a virtual buffer according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, the domestic mobile communication company server 700 transmits a call request message to the mobile communication terminal 600 through the domestic mobile communication network 600 in response to an origination request to the mobile communication terminal 200 through the domestic mobile communication network 600 by the first calling terminal 800a. (S31) to the mobile communication terminal 200 for the foreign mobile communication company server 500 connected to the foreign mobile communication network 700 through the mobile communication network 700. [

After the step S31, the mobile communication terminal 200 transmits the request for data transmission / reception by the foreign mobile communication company server 500 to the mobile communication terminal (400) connected to the foreign mobile communication network (700) 200, and the communication information including the calling, calling, and data amount by the first calling terminal 800a (S32).

After the step S32, the virtual wander providing server 400 searches for the virtual wander certificate registered in step S23 with respect to the mobile communication terminal 200 according to the reception of the communication information, And requests the mobile communication terminal 200 to transfer the communication information received in step S32 to the wicked card 100 through the foreign communication network 700 in step S33.

After step S33, the virtual walrus mobile app of the mobile communication terminal 200 performs data and call authentication according to authentication using the terminal information to provide communication information to the wired card 100, Card 100 and stores it in the own memory of the woofer card 100 (S34).

After step S34, the virtual wisemobile mobile app of the mobile communication terminal 200 uses the communication information stored in the wooSim card 100 to access the domestic mobile communication network 600 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 and the domestic mobile communication network 600 To the domestic mobile communication company server 700 connected to the mobile communication company server 700 (S35).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a virtual buffer for foreign origination in the method of providing a virtual buffer according to an embodiment of the present invention. 5, the foreign mobile communication company server 700 transmits a call request to the mobile communication terminal 200 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 by the second calling terminal 800b, 700 to the mobile communication terminal 200 (S36).

After step S36, the mobile communication terminal 200 transmits a virtual wakeup server 600 connected to the foreign mobile communication network 700 to the second calling terminal 800b in response to transmission / reception by the foreign mobile communication company server 700 Communication volume, and data amount (S37).

After step S37, the virtual wander providing server 600 performs data and call authentication for the mobile communication terminal 200 using the terminal information of the mobile communication terminal 200 included in the communication information (S38).

After step S38, the virtual wiggly mobile app of the mobile communication terminal 200 transmits a charging request to the foreign mobile communication company server 700 connected to the foreign mobile communication network 300 using the communication information provided to the virtual wigginess providing server 600 (S39).

The present invention can also be embodied as computer-readable codes on a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device and the like, and also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (for example, transmission over the Internet) .

The computer readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. And functional programs, codes, and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains.

As described above, preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed in the present specification and drawings, and although specific terms have been used, they have been used only in a general sense to easily describe the technical contents of the present invention and to facilitate understanding of the invention , And are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that other modifications based on the technical idea of the present invention are possible in addition to the embodiments disclosed herein.

100: Beast card
200: mobile communication terminal
210: Transmitting /
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221: Information providing module
222: authentication provision module
223: Virtual buffer module
224: Domestic Procedure Module
225: Overseas Procedure Module
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240: Ripple I / F
250: Input / output unit
300: overseas mobile communication network
400: Virtual wakeup server
400a: authentication server
500: Overseas carrier server
600: Domestic mobile communication network
700: Domestic carrier server
800a: first calling terminal
800b: second calling terminal

Claims (5)

A virtual wakeup service including a Universal Subscriber Identity Module card 100, a mobile communication terminal 200, an overseas mobile communication network 300, a virtual wakeup server 400, and an authentication server 400a In the system 1, the mobile communication terminal 200,
An information providing module 221; And
After controlling the transmitting and receiving unit 210 to access the virtual wander providing server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 and then moving the virtual wander providing server 400 from the virtual wander providing server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300 An authentication provision module 222 for controlling the transceiver 210 to receive a terminal information request to the communication terminal 200; / RTI >
The authentication providing module 222 requests the worm card 100 to provide the terminal information stored in the own memory of the worm card 100 by the information providing module 221 through the worm I / F 240 After the terminal information is returned, the virtual wakeup server 400 controls the transmitting / receiving unit 210 to generate and issue an authentication token that encodes the terminal information to the virtual wakeup server 400 through the foreign mobile communication network 300, To the authentication server 400a so as to complete the authentication by the authentication server 400a,
The authentication server 400a receives the authentication token and transmits the authentication token to the mobile communication company server 700 via the foreign mobile communication network 300 in response to a request for authentication token authentication and authentication for the domestic mobile communication company server 700 connected to the domestic mobile communication network 600. [ ), The authentication is completed when they match according to the terminal information verification by the authentication token decryption.
delete The system according to claim 1, wherein the authentication provision module (222)
And controls the transmitting / receiving unit (210) to receive authentication information indicating that authentication has been completed through the foreign mobile communication network (300) from the virtual wander providing server (400).
The method of claim 3, wherein the authentication provision module (222)
The terminal number provided by the information provision module 221 to the worm card 100 via the worm I / F 420 before driving the domestic procedure module 224 and the foreign procedure module 225, A virtual wakeup service providing module 223 for performing a terminal information confirmation process for confirming whether or not the virtual wakeup service is ready for use; Further comprising: means for determining whether the virtual watershed is present.
The system according to claim 4, wherein the virtual buffering module (223)
The control unit 200 controls the transmission / reception unit 210 to transmit the virtual wake up approval server 400 to the virtual wakeup server 400 and store the virtual wake up certificate finally granted by the virtual wakeup server 400 in the database together with the authentication token The virtual watershed providing system comprising:

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