PROVISIONING CONTENT FORMATTING IN A MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20090318123A1
• Filed: 12/12/2006
• Published: 12/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Giesecke + Devrient Mobile Security GmBH (Giesecke & Devrient GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
• Inventors: Svensson, Britt-Mari, Normark, Magnus
• Granted Patent: US 8,170,536 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.400
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities

Abstract

The method is for provisioning content formatting in a device management system to facilitate provisioning of mobile devices of different capabilities with contents in a device management system in a mobile network infrastructure. The system has a device management application and repositories. The device management application in the device management system is initiated to perform provisioning content formatting. The device management application determines the applicable format for a mobile device to be provisioned on an analysis based on combining the capabilities of the mobile device identified by means of one or more of the repositories.

Claims

1. A method for provisioning content formatting in a device management system to facilitate provisioning of mobile devices of different capabilities with contents in a device management system in a mobile network infrastructure, comprising:

providing the mobile device with a physical entity and a module with subscriber information and the system comprising a device management application and repositories, initiating the device management application in the device management system to perform provisioning content formatting, and

the device management application determining an applicable format for a mobile device to be provisioned on an analysis based on combining capabilities of the mobile device identified by means of one or more repositories, the capabilities of the mobile device consisting of capabilities for both the physical entity and for the module in which subscriber information is stored.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of storing a content into a repository of the device management system before initiating provisioning content formatting, whereby the initiation of the device management capabilities takes place by formatting the stored provisioning content into an applicable provisioning content format being found to be a format of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising the steps of storing the provisioning content in the repository of the device management system in a generic format.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of providing the provisioning content with connectivity parameters for a service.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of providing the provisioning content with a data parameter subject to a provisioning by the device management system.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of the device management application identifying the mobile device to be provisioned by means of Mobile Station Integrated Service Digital Network Number (MSISDN) and/or International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI).

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising the steps of the device management application retrieving a terminal type out of the IMEI and looking up a corresponding Over-The-Air (OTA) provisioning protocol and a provisioning content format of the OTA protocol from a Terminal Capabilities Repository (TCR) and thereafter the device management application converting the provisioning content into a correct format for the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 6 further comprising the steps of the device management application retrieving the subscriber out of the MSISDN and looking up the SIM card type from a subscription and SIM card type relationship repository (SSR) and then the corresponding OTA provisioning protocol and the provisioning content format of the OTA protocol from the SIM Card Capabilities Repository (SCR) thereafter the device management application converting the provisioning content into a correct format for the actual mobile device.

9. The method of claim 6 further comprising the steps of the device management application looking up the provisioning content format corresponding to the provisioning protocol, terminal type and/or SIM card type.

10. The method of claim 3 further comprising the steps of the device management application converting the provisioning content stored in a generic format into the applicable provisioning content format of the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of terminally bounding the provisioning content.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of managing data objects.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of SIM card bounding the provisioning content.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising the steps of storing the data objects to be managed in files on the SIM card.

15. A system for formatting provisioning contents of different formats for devices of different capabilities by a device management system in a mobile network infrastructure, the devices to be provisioned the mobile device consisting of a physical entity and a module with subscriber information, the system comprising:

one or more device capabilities repositories,

the repositories being adapted for storing information about capabilities for both the physical entity and for the module in which subscriber information is stored, and

a device management application used for a determination of correct provisioning content format based on capabilities of the mobile device and the device capabilities repositories.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the device capabilities repositories consists of a terminal capabilities repository storing information about provisioning protocols to be used in provisioning and/or about provisioning content formats each mobile terminal type is provisioned by.

17. The system of claim 15 wherein one of the device capabilities repositories consists of a SIM card capabilities repository storing information about data objects available on a SIM card type.

18. The system of claim 15 wherein one of the device capabilities repositories consists of a subscription and SIM card type relationship repository storing information about capabilities of a SIM card type for a particular subscription.

19. The system of claim 15 wherein one of the repositories consists of a device identity repository storing mobile device identities as identified by a terminal identity and a subscription identity.

20. The system of claim 15 wherein one of the device capabilities repositories consists of a repository storing content to be provisioned on a generic format administratively managed in the system.

21. The system of claim 15 wherein the device management application has means for executing conversion from a generic format into a provisioning content format that fits capabilities of a particular mobile device consisting of subscription, terminal and SIM card.