METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVISIONING CONTENT IN A MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20090318125A1
• Filed: 12/27/2006
• Published: 12/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Giesecke + Devrient Mobile Security GmBH (Giesecke & Devrient GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
• Inventors: Normark, Magnus, Svensson, Britt-Mari
• Granted Patent: US 8,185,090 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

The provisioning content in a device management system facilitates provisioning of mobile devices with contents of non-applicable formats for provisioning in a module therein in a device management system in a mobile network infrastructure. The system has a device management application and repositories. Capabilities of a mobile device are checked from one or more repositories of the device management system. The provisioning content is retrieved from a module in a mobile device and converted into an applicable format for provisioning the device.

Claims

1. A method for provisioning content in a device management system to facilitate provisioning of mobile devices with contents of non-applicable formats independently of storage media in a device management system in a mobile network infrastructure, comprising:

providing the device management system with a device management application and repositories,

the device management application checking capabilities of a mobile device from one or more repositories of the device management system with respect to storage media and provisioning content format,

retrieving a provisioning content from a storage medium in accordance with the capabilities of the mobile device,

converting the provisioning content into an applicable format for provisioning, and

provisioning the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprising providing a mobile network infrastructure with a GSM and the storage medium being a module in the mobile device, which has a SIM card.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprising the provisioning content consisting of connectivity parameters for a service.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprising the provisioning content consisting of any data parameter subject to a provisioning by the device management system.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprising the device management application retrieving a terminal type out of an International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) and looking up a corresponding provisioning protocol from a Terminal Capabilities Repository (TCR).

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprising the device management application retrieving a subscriber out of Mobile Station Integrated Service Digital Network Number (MSISDN) and looking up a SIM card type from a Subscription- and SIM card type Relationship repository (SSR) and then a corresponding provisioning protocol from a SIM Card Capabilities Repository (SCR).

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprising the device management application looking up the provisioning content format corresponding to a provisioning protocol, terminal type and/or SIM card type.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein the method further comprising the device management application converting the provisioning content into an applicable provisioning content format of the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprising terminally bounding the converted provisioning content.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the method further comprising managing data objects.

11. Method of claims 1-10, characterized in that The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprising SIM card bounding the provisioning content stored in the module before converting the provisioning content into an applicable format for provisioning.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the method further comprising storing data objects to be managed in files on a SIM card.

13. A system for provisioning contents in a device management system in order to facilitate provisioning of mobile devices with contents of non-applicable formats independently of storage media in a device management system in a mobile network infrastructure, the system comprising:

a device management application and repositories, one or more device capabilities repositories,

a device management application used for checking of capabilities of a mobile device from one or more repositories of the device management system,

means for retrieving a provisioning content from a storage medium in accordance with the capabilities of the mobile device,

means for converting the provisioning content into an applicable format for provisioning, and

means for provisioning the mobile device.

14. The system according to claim 13 wherein one of the repositories consists of a terminal capabilities repository storing information about provisioning protocols to be used in the provisioning and/or about the provisioning content formats each mobile terminal type is provisioned by.

15. The system according to claim 13 wherein one of the repositories consists of a SIM card capabilities repository storing information about data objects available on a SIM card type.

16. The system according to claim 13 wherein one of the repositories consists of a Subscription and SIM card type relationship repository storing information about capabilities of the SIM card type for a particular subscription.

17. The system according to claim 13 wherein one of the repositories consists of a device identity repository storing the mobile device identities as identified by a terminal identity and a subscription identity.

18. The system according to claim 13 wherein the device management application has means for executing converting from SIM card format into a format of the mobile device to fit capabilities of the mobile device.