Method and system for remote control of a smart card

• US 20120149333A1
• Filed: 12/23/2009
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Chuanxi, Ma, Jingwang
• Granted Patent: US 8,718,603 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/354 Card activation or deactivation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/082 using revocation of authorisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

The present application discloses a method and system for remote control of a smart card. The method includes: a smart card management platform receives a request to destroy the smart card from a subscriber (S101); according to the request, the smart card management platform performs interactive processing with a terminal side via a mobile network platform to make the terminal side destroy the smart card (S103). The present application enables the subscriber to avoid loss when the terminal is robbed, lost, stolen, or is illegally used seriously, and provide a higher flexibility to the payment system.

Claims

1. A method for remote control of a smart card which is included in a terminal side, comprising:

receiving, by a smart card management platform, a request to destroy the smart card from a subscriber;

performing, by the smart card management platform, signaling interaction with the terminal side via a mobile network platform to control the terminal side to destroy the smart card.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal side further comprises a mobile station, and the smart card management platform performing signaling interaction with the terminal side comprises:

when the mobile station is in a normal use status, the mobile station receives a destroy command from the mobile network platform;

the mobile station executes the destroy command to destroy the smart card.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

after the mobile station destroys the smart card, the smart card being in a destroyed status;

wherein after the smart card is in the destroyed status, the mobile station returns a destroy success message to the mobile network platform.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the mobile station executing the destroy command to destroy the smart card comprises:

the mobile station disables function of the smart card by destroying hardware of the smart card;

or

the mobile station disables the function of the smart card by executing a preinstalled software procedure.

6. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

updating the smart card to an awaiting-destroy status when the mobile station where the smart card is positioned is in an off-line status;

sending the destroy command by the mobile network platform to the mobile station where the smart card is positioned when the mobile station where the smart card is positioned registers with the mobile network platform, and executing the destroy command by the mobile station.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the off-line status comprises:

the mobile station is in a turned-off status;

or the mobile station is not in a service area.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

after the smart card management platform receives an application from a subscriber, determining, by the smart card management platform, whether the smart card is valid or not.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

before the smart card management platform performs signaling interaction with the terminal side via the mobile network platform, performing security authentication between the mobile network platform and the terminal side.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

after the smart card management platform receives a request to destroy the smart card from the subscriber, the smart card management platform looking up off-line or on-line status information of the mobile station where the smart card is positioned through the mobile network platform.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the smart card management platform looking up off-line or on-line status information of the mobile station where the smart card is positioned through the mobile network platform comprises:

the smart card management platform looks up and finds the off-line or on-line status information of the mobile station according to a mobile identification code and location regional information of the mobile station via the mobile network platform.

4. (canceled)

12. A method for remote control of a smart card, comprising:

informing, by a smart card supervision platform, a smart card management platform to destroy the smart card when the smart card supervision platform finds that a subscriber uses the smart card illegally;

performing, by the smart card management platform, signaling interaction with a terminal side via a mobile network platform to control the terminal side to complete the destroying of the smart card.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the smart card management platform sending a command to destroy the smart card to the terminal side via the mobile network platform comprises:

the smart card management platform looks up status information of a mobile station where the smart card is positioned via the mobile network platform;

when the mobile station is in a normal use status, the mobile network platform sends a destroy command to the mobile station;

the mobile station executes the destroy command to destroy the smart card.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

after the mobile station executes the destroy command to destroy the smart card,

returning a destroy success message by the mobile station to the mobile network platform;

changing a status of the smart card to a destroyed status by the mobile network platform.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the smart card management platform looking up status information of the mobile station where the smart card is positioned via the mobile network platform comprises:

the smart card management platform looks up and finds the status information of the mobile station according to a mobile identification code and location regional information of the mobile station via the mobile network platform.

16. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

after the smart card management platform looks up the status information of the mobile station where the smart card is positioned via the mobile network platform,

updating, by the mobile network platform, a status of the mobile network platform to an awaiting-destroy status when the mobile station where the smart card is positioned is in an off-line status.

17. A system for remote control of a smart card, comprising:

a mobile network platform configured to send a destroy command;

a mobile station configured to execute the destroy command to destroy the smart card.

18. The system according to claim 17, further comprising:

a smart card management platform, configured to receive a request from a subscriber and perform signaling interaction with the mobile station via the mobile network platform.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the mobile network platform is further configured to look up status information of the mobile station where the smart card is positioned.

20. A mobile terminal, comprising a mobile station and a smart card, and further comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a request to destroy the smart card;

an executing module, configured to execute destroying of the smart card; and

a sending module, configured to send a destroy success message.

21. (canceled)

22. A mobile network platform, comprising:

a sending module, configured to send a destroy command to a mobile station when the mobile station is in a normal use status; and

an updating module, configured to update a status of a smart card;

updating the status of the smart card to a destroyed status when the mobile station and the smart card are in an on-line status and the destroy command is successfully executed; and

updating the status of the smart card to an awaiting-destroy status when the mobile station and the smart card are in an off-line status.