Mobile device management
AssigneeGiesecke & Devrient GmbH
InventorThomas Larsson
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Abstract
A method for managing, e.g. subscriptions on a security element of, a mobile device comprises the steps of recognizing a new network and initiating a management step. In order to recognize the new network, information about a network selected by the mobile device is captured. Then, the captured information is evaluated in order to recognize the new network. Further, it is determined whether the captured information satisfies a specified stability condition. If this is the case, the management step is initiated.
Claims17
A method for managing a mobile device having access to a network, the method comprising the steps of:
- capturing information about a network selected by the mobile device;
- evaluating the captured information to recognize whether the network selected by the mobile device is a new network;
- determining whether the captured information satisfies a specified stability condition;
- initiating a management step for the network selected by the mobile device if the specified stability condition is satisfied,
- wherein the specified stability condition is satisfied when in a specified minimum number of capturing steps an identifier of the same selected network is captured and in each of the capturing steps of the specified minimum number of capturing steps a captured identifier of a mobile radio cell of the selected network differs from the identifier of the mobile radio cell captured in the preceding capturing step.
A mobile device comprising:
- a security element, and
- a network interface,
- wherein the mobile device is configured to perform at least the following:
- capture information about a network selected by the mobile device;
- evaluate the captured information to recognize whether the network selected by the mobile device is a new network;
- determine whether the captured information satisfies a specified stability condition;
- initiate a management step for the network selected by the mobile device if the specified stability condition is satisfied,
- wherein the specified stability condition is satisfied when in a specified minimum number of capturing steps an identifier of the same selected network is captured and in each of the capturing steps of the specified minimum number of capturing steps a captured identifier of a mobile radio cell of the selected network differs from the identifier of the mobile radio cell captured in the preceding capturing step.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors configure a mobile device to perform at least the following:
- capture information about a network selected by the mobile device;
- evaluate the captured information to recognize whether the network selected by the mobile device is a new network;
- determine whether the captured information satisfies a specified stability condition;
- initiate a management step for the network selected by the mobile device if the specified stability condition is satisfied,
- wherein the specified stability condition is satisfied when in a specified minimum number of capturing steps an identifier of the same selected network is captured and in each of the capturing steps of the specified minimum number of capturing steps a captured identifier of a mobile radio cell of the selected network differs from the identifier of the mobile radio cell captured in the preceding capturing step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.