System for binding multiple SIM cards to an electronic device

• US 9,949,126 B1
• Filed: 07/17/2017
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank NA (Wells Fargo & Company)
• Original Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank NA (Wells Fargo & Company)
• Inventors: Selvaraj, Elenchezhean, Suen, Darrell L., Su-Shin Kao, Melody, Kotamraju, Sridhar
• Primary Examiner(s): Gesesse, Tilahun B
• Application Number:
  US15/651,676
• Time in Patent Office: 274 Days
• Field of Search: 455558, 455559
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3816 Mechanical arrangements for accommodating identification devices, e.g. cards or chips; with connectors for programming identification devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/35 Protecting application or service provisioning, e.g. securing SIM application provisioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/45 using multiple identity modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/48 using secure binding, e.g. securely binding identity modules to devices, services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with multi SIM card device binding are described herein. According to one embodiment, a system includes an authentication logic configured to enable communication between an entity and a user. The user is associated with a user profile. The system further includes a carrier logic configured to identify a subscriber identity module (SIM) card of a carrier. The carrier logic also requests carrier data, associated with the SIM card from the carrier. An update logic is configured to update the user profile with the carrier data.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

an authentication logic configured to permit communication between an entity and an electronic device, wherein a user profile is associated with the electronic device;

a carrier logic configured to;

(i) identify a plurality of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards associated to the electronic device, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of SIM cards are associated with a carrier and the electronic device;

(ii) request carrier data associated with at least one of the plurality of SIM cards;

an update logic configured to update the user profile with the carrier data, wherein the carrier data links the user profile to the at least one of the plurality of SIM cards; and

a verification logic configured to verify that the at least one of the plurality of SIM cards is an original SIM card issued with the electronic device,

wherein the SIM cards include identifying information, wherein the identifying information includes a list of services the user has access to and two passwords, and wherein the passwords include a personal identification number (PIN) for ordinary use and a personal unblocking code (PUK) for PIN unlocking, and wherein the carrier logic assimilates the identifying information as carrier data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the authentication logic is further configured to confirm an identity of a user associated with the user profile.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the SIM cards are identified one at a time as they are employed in a device having a single SIM card in contact with the entity, or

the profile is updated with multiple SIM cards if the device in contact with the entity contains multiple SIM cards.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the update logic is configured to bind the electronic device associated with a user associated to the SIM card.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the carrier data includes identifying information about a user associated with the user profile.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the verification logic is configured to verify that a second one of the plurality of SIM cards is associated with the electronic device.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the verification logic is configured to query the carrier to determine that the carrier data contains a swap indicator, and wherein the swap indicator indicates that either the one of the plurality of SIM cards or the second one of the plurality of SIM cards is being used in the original device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the swap indicator is associated with a record of activity between the electronic device and a subset of the plurality of SIM cards.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the swap indicator indicates whether the device and a SIM card have been used in conjunction previously, and based on an affirmative determination the user profile is updated with the requested carrier data, and upon a negative determination the profile is not updated with carrier data because there is a risk associated with the SIM cards.

10. A method, comprising:

enabling communication between an entity and a user device, wherein the user device is associated with a user profile;

identifying a subscriber identity module (SIM) card of the device, wherein the SIM card is associated with a carrier;

requesting carrier data associated with the SIM card from the carrier;

updating the user profile with the carrier data, wherein the updated user profile authenticates a user of the user device; and

verifying that the SIM card was assigned by the carrier to user device,

wherein the SIM cards include identifying information, wherein the identifying information includes a list of services the user has access to and two passwords, wherein the passwords include a personal identification number (PIN) for ordinary use and a personal unblocking code (PUK) for PIN unlocking, and the identifying information is classified as carrier data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the SIM cards are identified one at a time as they are employed in a device having a single SIM card in contact with the entity, or

the profile is updated with multiple SIM cards if the device in contact with the entity contains multiple SIM cards.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising binding the user device associated with the user to the SIM card.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the carrier data includes identifying information about the user.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising querying the carrier to determine that the carrier data contains a swap indicator, wherein the swap indicator indicates that the user device is an original device and that the SIM card is being used in the original device, wherein the SIM card is one of a plurality of SIM cards assigned to the original device.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the swap indicator is associated with a record of activity between the user device and the SIM card.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the swap indicator indicates whether the device and a SIM card have been used in conjunction previously, and based on an affirmative determination the user profile is updated with the requested carrier data, and upon a negative determination the profile is not updated with carrier data because there is a risk associated with the SIM cards.

17. A system, comprising:

one or more processors implemented in hardware having logics comprising;

an authentication logic configured to enable communication between an entity and a user device, wherein the user device is associated with a user profile;

a carrier logic configured to;

(i) identify a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card of the device and a second SIM card, wherein the first SIM card and the second SIM card are associated with at least one carrier;

(ii) request carrier data associated with the first SIM card or the second SIM card from the at least one carrier;

an update logic configured to update the user profile with the carrier data, wherein the updated user profile is employed to authenticate the communication; and

a verification logic configured to verify that the either the first SIM card or the second SIM card is being used in an original device assigned by the at least one carrier,

wherein the SIM cards include identifying information, wherein the identifying information includes a list of services the user has access to and two passwords, and wherein the passwords include a personal identification number (PIN) for ordinary use and a personal unblocking code (PUK) for PIN unlocking, and wherein the carrier logic assimilates the identifying information as carrier data.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the update logic is configured to bind the user device associated with a user to the first SIM card or the second SIM card.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the verification logic is configured to query the at least one carrier to determine that the carrier data contains a swap indicator that identifies that the first SIM card or the second SIM card is being used in the original device.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the swap indicator is associated with a record of activity between the user device and either of the first SIM card or the second SIM card.