Method for automatically setting network configuration of portable communication device

• US 20030187963A1
• Filed: 03/29/2002
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Chin, Wen-Chiang, Li, Pei-Chih, Tsai, Shih-Kuang
• Application Number:
  US10/108,343
• Publication Number:
  US 20030187963A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

A method for carrying out an automatic setting of network configuration of a portable communication device capable of accessing the Internet by wireless and having a network configuration database containing identifications (IDs) of Internet service providers (ISPs) and online basic data corresponding to the IDs, the method comprising the steps of reading the ID of the ISP in a subscriber identity module (SIM) card in the communication device; reading the online basic data from the network configuration database based on the ID; and setting a network configuration of the communication device. By utilizing this method, network configuration of the communication device can be set automatically by reading SIM card.

Claims

1. A method for carrying out an automatic setting of network configuration of a portable communication device capable of accessing the Internet by wireless, the communication device having a network configuration database containing identifications (IDs) of Internet service providers (ISPs) and online basic data corresponding to the IDs, the method comprising the steps of:

reading the ID of the ISP in a subscriber identity module (SIM) card in the communication device;

reading the online basic data from the network configuration database based on the ID; and

setting a network configuration of the communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the online basic data comprises parameters of the network configuration provided by the ISP comprising a telephone number, a dialing procedure, a linking address of server, a linking type, a home page position, a user name, and a password so that the online basic data is operative to automatically set the parameters to corresponding positions by the communication device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the network configuration and the parameters of the network configuration contained in the online basic data are operative to update.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the updating of the network configuration and the parameters of the network configuration contained in the online basic data is done by receiving the updated data containing the network configuration and the parameters of the network configuration through electronic messages, and automatically setting the updated data to the corresponding positions of the parameters of the network configuration by the communication device for further updating.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein in setting the network configuration a control circuit of the communication device performs the steps of:

reading the ID of the ISP in the SIM card in the communication device;

reading the online basic data from the network configuration database based on the ID;

comparing the online basic data of the network configuration database with original online basic data of the communication device;

updating any inconsistent parameters for conforming to the online basic data of the network configuration database; and

setting the network configuration of the communication device.