US 9,520,911 B2Granted

System for binding multiple SIM cards to an electronic device

AssigneeWellsfargo Bank, N.A.

InventorsElenchezhean Selvaraj, Darrell L. Suen, Melody Su-Shin Kao, Sridhar Kotamraju

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Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with multi SIM card device binding are described herein. According to one embodiment, a system includes an authentication logic configured to enable communication between an entity and a user. The user is associated with a user profile. The system further includes a carrier logic configured to identify a subscriber identity module (SIM) card of a carrier. The carrier logic also requests carrier data associated with the SIM card from the carrier. An update logic is configured to update the user profile with the carrier data.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

an electronic device configured to receive at least one subscriber identity module (SIM) card;
authentication logic configured to enable communication between an authenticating entity and the electronic device, wherein a user is associated with a user profile residing with the authenticating entity, and wherein the authenticating entity communicates with the user when the user is authenticated;
carrier logic configured to:
(i) identify a plurality of SIM cards of the electronic device, wherein the plurality of SIM cards are associated with a carrier;
and
(ii) request carrier data associated with the plurality of SIM cards from the carrier;
and
update logic configured to update the user profile at the authenticating entity with the carrier data associated with the plurality of SIM cards such that the user profile is linked to the carrier data and the SIM cards;
a verification logic configured to verify that the electronic device is an original device and that the plurality of SIM cards are being used in the original device wherein the authenticating entity communicates with the user when the electronic device is verified,
wherein the authentication logic, carrier logic, update logic, and verification logic are implemented in hardware.

7 more elements

A method, comprising:

providing a user electronic device associated with a user and configured to receive at least one subscriber identity module (SIM) card;
enabling communication between an authenticating entity and the user electronic device, wherein the user electronic device is associated with a user profile residing at the authenticating entity and wherein the authenticating entity communicates with the user when the user is authenticated;
identifying a first SIM card of the user electronic device, wherein the first SIM card is associated with a carrier;
requesting carrier data associated with the first SIM card from the carrier;
updating the user profile with the carrier data associated with the first SIM card;
binding the first SIM card to the user electronic device;
identifying a second SIM card of the user electronic device, wherein the second SIM card is associated with the carrier;
requesting carrier data associated with the second SIM card from the carrier;
binding the second SIM card to the user electronic device;
and
verifying that the user electronic device is an original user electronic device and that the first SIM card and the second SIM is being used in the original user electronic device, wherein the authenticating entity communicates with the user when the user electronic device is verified,
wherein the steps of the method are performed by an authentication logic, a carrier logic, an update logic, and a verification logic that are implemented in hardware.

9 more elements

A system, comprising:

a user electronic device configured to receive at least one subscriber identity module (SIM) card;
authentication logic configured to enable communication between an authenticating entity and the user electronic device, wherein a user of the user electronic device is associated with a user profile residing at the authenticating entity, and wherein the authenticating entity communicates with the user when the user is authenticated;
carrier logic configured to:
(i) identify a first user SIM card of the user electronic device and a second user SIM card of the user electronic device, wherein the first user SIM card and the second user SIM card are associated with at least one carrier;
and
(ii) request carrier data associated with the first user SIM card and the second user SIM card from the at least one carrier;
update logic configured to update the user profile with the carrier data associated with the first user SIM card and carrier data associated with the second user SIM card;
and
verification logic configured to verify that the user electronic device is an original user electronic device and that the user SIM card is being used in the original user electronic device, wherein the authenticating entity communicates with the user when the electronic device is verified,
wherein the authentication logic, carrier logic, update logic, and verification logic are implemented in hardware.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/581,166Filed 23 Dec 2014
Published: US 2016/0182110 A123 Jun 2016
Granted: 13 Dec 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04W 12/06
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: authentication
H04B 1/3816
Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of…:…
H04W 8/183
Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data:…
H04W 8/245
Transfer of terminal data: from a network towards a terminal

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