WO1994008433A1 - Digital mobile telephone system in which each subscriber is assigned a telephone number and several subscriber identity module (sim) cards - Google Patents

Digital mobile telephone system in which each subscriber is assigned a telephone number and several subscriber identity module (sim) cards Download PDF

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WO1994008433A1
WO1994008433A1 PCT/SE1993/000784 SE9300784W WO9408433A1 WO 1994008433 A1 WO1994008433 A1 WO 1994008433A1 SE 9300784 W SE9300784 W SE 9300784W WO 9408433 A1 WO9408433 A1 WO 9408433A1
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Jan Hermansson
Christer MÅNSSON
Anders Jacobsson
Zeth NYSTRÖM
Bo Karlsson
Christer Palmgren
Göran LEUHUSEN
Flemming ÖRNEHOLM
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Priority to US08/406,852 priority patent/US5657373A/en
Priority to EP93922116A priority patent/EP0672328B1/en
Priority to AT93922116T priority patent/ATE200723T1/de
Priority to DE69330168T priority patent/DE69330168T2/de
Publication of WO1994008433A1 publication Critical patent/WO1994008433A1/en
Priority to NO19951231A priority patent/NO319451B1/no
Priority to FI951536A priority patent/FI109858B/sv
Priority to GR20010401090T priority patent/GR3036238T3/el

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W8/00—Network data management
    • H04W8/26—Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
    • 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

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  • SIM Subscriber Identity Module
  • This invention relates to a digital mobile communi ⁇ cation system comprising a switching centre, a subscriber register connected thereto, mobile terminals, such as mobile telephones, and subscriber-linked subscriber's cards, such as smart cards, insertable in the mobile ter ⁇ minals.
  • This system which has a large coverage area as a result of far-reaching international cooperation, is dis ⁇ tinguished by communication taking place by means of digi- tal signal transmission and by the subscription being linked to a subscriber's card that can be inserted by the subscriber in different mobile terminals in order to acti ⁇ vate these.
  • a mobile terminal holding such a subscriber's card can be reached at the subscriber's number linked to the subscriber's card, and outgoing traffic from this mobile terminal, such as telephone calls, telefax trans ⁇ missions and data communication, is as a rule debited the subscription linked to the subscriber's card, i.e. the mobile terminal as such is of minor importance in this system and the subscription is embodied by the subscri ⁇ ber's card.
  • the subscriber's card is a so-called smart card which in GSM contexts is referred to as SIM (Suscriber Identity Module) and contains at least one microchip which holds information on the subscription and which, when the SIM card is inserted in a mobile terminal, is connected thereto.
  • SIM Subscriber Identity Module
  • the original SIM card had the size of an ordinary credit card and was intended to be insertable in any GSM mobile terminal.
  • the "credit-card” size soon proved to be inconvenient in small pocket phones, and a smaller "stamp-size" SIM card, containing the same type of microchip and thus compatible with the large SIM card, was introduced as a complement to the large card.
  • the small SIM card fits all existing mobile terminals but is not, owing to its small size, as easy to handle as the large card and therefore is best suited to be more or less permanently installed in a mobile terminal.
  • the object of this invention is to remedy the above inconveniences.
  • a digital mobile communication system of the type men- tioned by way of introduction which is characterised in that each subscription is allocated a subscriber's number and at least two subscriber's cards adapted to be activat ⁇ ed so as to open a mobile terminal to incoming as well as outgoing traffic when inserted therein, such that, when one of the cards is activated, the other or others are necessarily deactivated so as to open a mobile terminal only to outgoing traffic when inserted therein, the sub ⁇ scriber register being adapted by the order of the sub ⁇ scriber to control the activation and the deactivation of the cards.
  • the cards have different identity num ⁇ bers, each stored in a record in the subscriber register, the subscriber number is stored only in the record con ⁇ taining the identity number of the activated card, and the subscriber register is adapted, by the order of the subscriber, to shift the identity numbers between the different records so as to activate and deactivate, respectively, the cards.
  • the cards may be the sub ⁇ scriber's number and not the identity numbers that is shifted between the different records so as to activate and deactivate, respectively, the cards, or the identity numbers can each be stored in an element in one and the same record in the subscriber register, the subscriber's number being linked only to the element containing the identity number of the activated card, and the subscriber register being adapted, by the order of the subscriber, to link the subscriber's number to another of the elements in the record so as to activate and deactivate, respectively, the cards.
  • one of the subscriber's cards preferably is a small "stamp-size” card, while another of the sub- scriber's cards is a large "credit-card-size” card.
  • Fig. 1 is a general schematic view of a mobile commu ⁇ nication system
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a large and a small sub- scriber's card, as well as of the associated mobile termi ⁇ nals.
  • the illustrated mobile communication system is gene ⁇ rally known as GSM and is based on subscriber's cards in the form of smart cards and on digital signal transmis ⁇ sion.
  • GSM Global System for Mobile communications
  • a mobile station MS such as a mobile telephone, a fax machine or a computer
  • a base station BTS Base Tran ⁇ sceiver System
  • a base station BTS is made up of a transceiver aerial and defines a certain coverage area.
  • a GSM network includes a large number of base sta ⁇ tions BTS, which are connected to base station control ⁇ lers BSC, each of which controls and supervises a number of base stations BTS.
  • the base station controllers BSC are in turn connected to at least one switching centre MSC (Mobile services Switching Centre).
  • MSC Mobile services Switching Centre
  • the switching centre MSC is adapted to control the traffic within a GSM network, as well as between this network and other networks connected thereto, such as a public telephone network PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) or the GSM network of another operator.
  • PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
  • GSM Global System for Mobile communications
  • Two different registers are also connected to the switching centre MSC, namely a home location register HLR containing information on the system's own subscribers, and a visitor location register VLR containing information on active, and consequently registered, visitors found in the coverage area of the GSM network.
  • a visitor is either a home subscriber or a subscriber associated with another GSM operator.
  • the information in the visitor location register VLR is always retrieved from the subscriber's home location register HLR and includes an identity number IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) making it possible to positively identify and address a visitor.
  • IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
  • the identity number IMSI is always stored in a subscriber's card SIM, a smart card, by means of which the mobile equipment is connected to a GSM network.
  • the subscriber's card SIM is available in two sizes, namely one "credit-card” size and one "stamp” size.
  • the microchip in the card is of the same type for both sizes and consists of a small single-chip microcomputer.
  • a mobile terminal MT such as a mobile telephone
  • the microchip of the card is connected to the mobile terminal which it thus activates.
  • a mobile station MS such an activat ⁇ ed mobile terminal MT is referred to as a mobile station MS.
  • a subscriber intending to use such a small mobile telephone should of course, when subscribing to the system, be given a small "stamp-size" subscriber's card SIM, which also can be used in large- size mobile terminals MT.
  • the small subscriber's card SIM is difficult to handle owing to its small size, and therefore rather lends itself to more or less permanent installation in the mobile equipment used most frequently by the subscriber, whereas the large sub ⁇ scriber's card SIM, owing to its handy "credit-card” size, is to be preferred for occasional use, e.g. when the sub- scriber is travelling and does not bring his own mobile equipment along.
  • the customer When subscribing to the system, the customer obtains at least two subscriber's cards SIM, of which one is small and one is large.
  • different identity numbers IMSI having their counterparts in the home location register HLR of the subscription, are stored in the sub- scriber's cards SIM.
  • the identity numbers IMSI of the two subscriber's cards are stored in one record each, but only one of the records also contains the customer's subscriber's number. This means that only one of the two subscriber's cards SIM associated with the same subscription is activated, i.e.
  • the subscriber's cards SIM can be addressed when there is incoming traffic to the subscriber, namely the card whose identity number IMSI is stored in the same record as the subscriber's number in the home location register HLR, while the other sub ⁇ scriber's card SIM of the subscription is deactivated, i.e. cannot be addressed when there is incoming traffic to the subscriber.
  • the subscriber's cards SIM always open the associated mobile terminals MT to outgoing traf- fie, and the cards can always be identified owing to their unique identity numbers IMSI.
  • the subscriber's cards SIM always permit out ⁇ going traffic when inserted in a mobile terminal MT
  • the subscriber can, by means of the mobile terminal MT, get in touch with the operator's company exchange or with a switching centre MSC in the network, and hence with dif ⁇ ferent operator service options in connection therewith.
  • One such option may be a billing administration sup ⁇ port system BASS where the subscriber gets in touch with telephone operators, or a voice mail system VMS which the subscriber has access to via service-specific codes enter ⁇ ed on the key pad KP of his mobile terminal.
  • one of the two systems BASS and VMS may enter the home location register HLR and activate one of the subscriber's cards SIM while simultaneously deactivating the currently acti ⁇ vated subscriber's card SIM either by shifting, in the home location register HLR, the identity number IMSI of the currently activated subscriber's card SIM from a record for the subscription, which also contains the sub ⁇ scriber's number, to another record for the subscription, which does not contain the subscriber's number but con ⁇ tains the identity number IMSI of the currently deacti ⁇ vated subscriber's card SIM, while simultaneously shift ⁇ ing the last-mentioned identity number IMSI to the record containing the subscriber's number, or by shifting the subscriber's number from a record for the subscription, which is associated with the currently activated sub ⁇ scriber's card SIM which is deactivated after the shift, to another record for
  • the identity numbers IMSI of the sub ⁇ scriber's cards SIM can be stored in one element each in one and the same record in the subscriber register HLR. In this record, the subscriber's number is then linked only to the identity number IMSI of the activated card SIM, so that the alternation between the cards SIM is achieved by linking the subscriber's number to another record element containing another identity number IMSI.
  • the invention expediently remedies, in a manner advantageous to the subscriber as well as the operator, the inconveniences caused by the original "credit-card- size" subscriber's card SIM being complemented with a small subscriber's card SIM which fits into even small pocket phones.
  • the preferred embodiment described above relates to a GSM network
  • the invention is of course not restricted to this type of network, and can also be applied to other digital mobile communication systems where the subscription is linked to smart cards.
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AU51231/93A AU674705B2 (en) 1992-10-01 1993-09-30 Digital mobil communication system
DK93922116T DK0672328T3 (da) 1992-10-01 1993-09-30 Digital mobiltelefonsystem, i hvilket hver abonnent tildeles et telefonnummer samt flere abonnentidentitets-modulkort (SIM-kort)
US08/406,852 US5657373A (en) 1992-10-01 1993-09-30 Digital mobile telephone system in which each subscriber is assigned a telephone number and several subscriber identity module (SIM) cards
EP93922116A EP0672328B1 (en) 1992-10-01 1993-09-30 Digital mobile telephone system in which each subscriber is assigned a telephone number and several subscriber identity module (sim) cards
AT93922116T ATE200723T1 (de) 1992-10-01 1993-09-30 Digitales mobiltelefonsystem in welchen jedem teilnehmer eine telefonnummer und eine vielzahl von teilnehmerkennungsmodulen (sim karten) zugeteilt sind
DE69330168T DE69330168T2 (de) 1992-10-01 1993-09-30 Digitales mobiltelefonsystem in welchen jedem teilnehmer eine telefonnummer und eine vielzahl von teilnehmerkennungsmodulen (sim karten) zugeteilt sind
NO19951231A NO319451B1 (no) 1992-10-01 1995-03-30 Digital mobiltelefonsystem hvor hver abonnent er tildelt et telefonnummer og flere abonnentidentitetsmodul(SIM)-kort
FI951536A FI109858B (sv) 1992-10-01 1995-03-31 Ett digitalt mobiltelefonsystem i vilket varje abonnent har sitt telefonnummer samt flere abonnentidentitetskort (SIM)
GR20010401090T GR3036238T3 (en) 1992-10-01 2001-07-18 Digital mobile telephone system in which each subscriber is assigned a telephone number and several subscriber identity module (sim) cards.

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SE9202847A SE9202847L (sv) 1992-10-01 1992-10-01 Digitalt mobiltelefonisystem vari varje abonnemang är tillordnat ett abonnentnummer och flera abonnentkort (SIM)

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