US 8,141,136 B2Granted

Method and system of replacing smart card

AssigneeGemalto SA

InventorsPing Lee, Cedric Collomb, Hong Wei Cao, Xu Wu, Simon Choi, Jian Wu

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Abstract

The present invention disclosed a method and system of replacing smart cards. It uses a new identification device (a new SIM) to replace an old one (an old SIM) associated with a user account. The new identification device has an identification number (ICCID). The new identification device is activated in the following manner. The old identification device communicates with an identification-management center through a communication interface (mobile telephone). And the identification-management center recognizes the old identification device. The identification number of the new identification device is sent to the identification-management center through the communication interface. The identification-management center checks the identification number. If the identification number is correct, the user account will be assigned to the new identification device by the identification-management center.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A smart card replacement method wherein said method includes the following steps:

a) provide a new smart card to be activated with a new ICCID (Smart Card Identification), wherein the new smart card carries the new ICCID, and wherein the new ICCID is stored in a database of the operator system, but not activated;
b) prepare an old smart card awaiting the replacement, said old smart card having an old ICCID, an old user identification number, and an old secret key, which have been registered and activated in the operator system, and have been mapped to the user account;
c) establish a communication channel for data transmission between a user and an operator system;
d) determine a user account in accordance with the old user identification number, wherein the user account corresponds to the user, and wherein the old user identification number is extracted from the old smart card by the operator system;
e) transmit the new ICCID of the new smart card from the user to the operator system using the communication channel;
and
f) correlate the new ICCID of the new smart card with the user account, then register and activate the new smart card, and finally replace the old smart card,
wherein step d) involves sending the old ICCID and the old user identification number of the old smart card of the user from a user end to the operator system,
wherein step e) involves prompting the user to input and to receive the new ICCID of the new smart card transmitted by the user,
wherein step f) includes:
f1) the operator system receives the new ICCID of the new smart card input by the user, and dynamically assigns a new user identification number and a new secret key to the new ICCID;
f2) in the operator system, a new parallel file is created with the new user identification number and the new secret key in the user account, to validate the new user identification number and the new secret key, and to invalidate the old user identification number and the old secret key;
f3) sending the new user identification number and the new secret key to the new smart card;
and
f4) informing the user that the new smart card has been activated.

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A smart card replacement system to replace an old smart card having an old ICCID, an old user identification number, and an old secret key by a new smart card with a new ICCID, wherein the new ICCID of the new smart card is stored in a database of an operator system, but not activated;

wherein the old ICCID, the old user identification number and the old secret key have been registered in the operator system and activated, corresponding to a user account, said smart card replacement system including:
a communication device, used to set up a data transmission connection between a user and the smart card replacement system, wherein the user transmits the old ICCID and the old user identification number of the old smart card of the user, and the new ICCID of the new smart card to the operator system;
a user data receiving device, used to receive the old ICCID and the old user identification number of the old smart card of the user, and to receive the new ICCID of the new smart card input by the user;
a user account identification device, used to identify the user account according to the old ICCID and the old user identification number received by the user data receiving device;
a new card activation device, used to map the new ICCID of the new smart card with the user account identified by the user account identification device, and to register and activate the new smart card so that the old smart card will be replaced,
a user identification number and a secret key assigning device, used to assign a new user identification number and a new secret key dynamically for the new smart card received by the user data receiving device, and to store the new user identification number and the new secret key in the database, which correspond to the new ICCID;
a new card activation device, used to create a new parallel file in the user account with the new user identification number and the new secret key, then to validate the new user identification number and new secret key, and at the same time to invalidate the old user identification number and the old key of the user account;
and
a communication device used to send the new user identification number and new secret key to the new smart card.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/513,933Filed 12 May 2003
Priority: CN 02 1 1764810 May 2002
Published: US 2007/0271603 A122 Nov 2007
Granted: 20 Mar 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04W 8/205
Transfer of user or subscriber data: transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier
G06Q 20/3552
Personalisation of cards for use: downloading or loading of personalisation data
G07F 7/1008
Together with a coded signal , e.g. in the form of personal identification information, like personal identification number [PIN] or biometric…
H04W 12/04
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]