Mobile communication terminal, wireless data service authentication server, system for automatically blocking voice call connection, and method of processing various messages in mobile communication terminal

• US 7,418,257 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2005
• Issued: 08/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech & Curitel Communications Incorporated (Pantech Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kim, Myong-Ju
• Primary Examiner(s): Perez-Gutierrez, Rafael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gonzalez, Amancio
• Application Number:
  US11/209,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20060046689A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,098 Days
• Field of Search: 455/406, 455/408, 455/411, 455/410
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/71 Hardware identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/72 Subscriber identity

Abstract

Disclosed is a technology for preventing a legitimate terminal'"'"'s user from being damaged due to the fraudulent usage of a cloned terminal. A mobile communication terminal transmits authentication information containing terminal usage time information to a wireless network according to a voice call connection procedure, and performs a voice call release process upon receiving an authentication failure message from the wireless network in response to the authentication information.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a key input unit for allowing a user to input an operation command;

a memory unit for storing authentication information including an authentication algorithm, an authentication key, a terminal ESN (electronic serial number), a subscriber MIN (mobile identification number), an SSD (shared secret data), and terminal usage time information;

a RF (radio frequency) communication unit for transmitting/receiving voice and data signals to/from the wireless network via an antenna; and

a control unit including an authentication processor to generate a voice call initiation message including an authentication information containing the terminal usage time information upon receiving a voice call connection request message from the key input unit, to transmit the voice call initiation message, and to perform a voice call release process upon receiving an authentication failure message from a wireless network in response to the voice call initiation message.

2. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal usage time information is monthly outgoing-call origination usage time information.

3. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal usage time information is monthly outgoing-call origination usage time information.

4. A system for automatically blocking a voice call connection, comprising:

a wireless network for receiving a voice call initiation message including the authentication information containing the terminal usage time information from a mobile communication terminal, generating and transmitting a voice call connection request message including authentication information containing terminal usage time information to an MSC (mobile switching center); and

an MSC for receiving the voice call connection request message including the authentication information containing the terminal usage time information from the wireless network, comparing the received terminal usage time information with previously stored terminal usage time information of a corresponding mobile communication terminal, and transmitting an authentication success message or an authentication failure message to the mobile communication terminal over the wireless network.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the terminal usage time information is monthly outgoing-call origination usage time information.

6. A mobile communication terminal for transmitting authentication information comprised of a subscriber MIN (mobile identification number), a terminal ESN (electronic serial number), and data usage amount information to a wireless data service authentication server over a wireless network according to a wireless data service connection procedure, comprising:

a key input unit for allowing a user to input an operation command;

a memory unit for storing the subscriber MIN, the terminal ESN, and the data usage amount;

a RF communication unit for transmitting/receiving voice and data signals to/from the wireless network;

a control unit including an authentication processor for transmitting the subscriber MIN, the terminal ESN, and the data usage amount information stored in the memory unit to the wireless data service authentication server via the RF communication unit upon receiving a wireless data service connection request command from the key input unit, and performing a wireless data connection release process upon receiving an authentication failure message from the wireless data service authentication server in response to the transmitted information.

7. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the data usage amount information is total data usage amount information or originating data usage amount information.

8. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the data usage amount information is total data usage amount information or originating data usage amount information.