System for downloading program to general-purpose subscriber identification module

• US 7,340,276 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2002
• Issued: 03/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Irisawa, Kazuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Rampuria; Sharad
• Application Number:
  US10/257,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20030092434A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,197 Days
• Field of Search: 455/558, 455/557, 455418-420, 455/550.1, 455410-411, 713/164, 713/189, 713/194, 713182-184, 235/380, 235/486, 235/382.5, 380/266, 380/270, 380/247, 702/186, 340/568.7, 709/204, 463/42, 717168-173
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

The invention provides a program-downloading system comprising a USIM (1) from and in which data can be read and written via a cellular phone terminal (2) and which holds a given program specification and encryption communication means, and a program server for communicating with the USIM via the cellular phone terminal and providing a program to the universal subscriber identify module according to the given program specification. The program server prepares a program list that can be provided according to a program specification sent out of the USIM via the cellular phone terminal and transmits the program list to the cellular phone terminal, so that when program information selected by the USIM from the program list is received via the cellular phone terminal, a given encryption communication means is selected out of an encryption communication means list transmitted out of the USIM to encrypt a program, which is then downloaded to the USIM.

Claims

1. A program-downloading system for a universal subscriber identity module, characterized by comprising a universal subscriber identity module from and in which data are read and written via signals sent to and from a cellular phone terminal and which holds a given program specification and encryption communication means, and a program server for communicating with said universal subscriber identity module via a signal received by said cellular phone terminal and providing a program to said universal subscriber identity module according to said given program specification, wherein:

said program server prepares a program list that can be provided according to a program specification identification information sent out of the universal subscriber identity module via a signal sent by the cellular phone terminal, said program specification including specification of program languages and version information, and transmits said program list to the cellular phone terminal via a signal, said program list being selected to be in accordance with details provided by said program specification, so that when program information selected by the universal subscriber identity module from said program list is received via a signal sent from the cellular phone terminal, a given encryption communication means is selected by the program server out of an encryption communication means list transmitted out of the universal subscriber identity module via a signal also sent from the cellular phone terminal to encrypt a program, which is then downloaded to the universal subscriber identity module by virtue of encryption communication originating from the program server and sent via a signal to the cellular phone terminal.

2. The program-downloading system according to claim 1, characterized in that the program list transmitted to said universal subscriber identity module is indicated on a display of the cellular phone terminal for selection.

3. The program-downloading system according to claim 1, characterized in that the encrypted program received at the cellular phone system is written in the universal subscriber identity module by means of encryption communication.