Method and system for remote control of smart card

• US 20120149331A1
• 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 8,718,602 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3229 Use of the SIM of a M-device as secure element
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3255 using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/354 Card activation or deactivation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3563 Software being resident on card
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

The disclosure discloses a method and a system for remote control of a smart card; the method comprises: receiving, by a smart card management platform, a request for performing a LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation for a smart card from a user (S101); and the smart card management platform performs a short message interaction with a terminal side through a mobile network platform based on the request, so as to make the terminal side perform the LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation for the smart card (S103). By means of the disclosure, the effects are achieved that the user can apply to a smart card supervision department for locking/unlocking the smart card and a terminal through a short message and disabling or enabling the smart card, when the smart card and the terminal in which the smart card is located are robbed, lost, stolen and has a serious illegal behaviour, so as to protect the security of the user and the smart card relevant department to the greatest extent and provide a better flexibility for a payment system.

Claims

1. A method for remote control of a smart card in a terminal side, comprising the following steps performed by a smart card management platform:

after receiving, from a user, a request for performing a LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation on the smart card,

performing a short message interaction with the terminal side through a mobile network platform; and

controlling the terminal side to perform the LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation on the smart card.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal side further comprises a mobile station;

wherein performing, by the smart card management platform, the short message interaction with the terminal side comprises;

receiving, by the mobile station in a normal operation state, a LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message sent by the mobile network platform; and

executing, by the mobile station, a command in the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to perform the LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation on the smart card, including inactivating, by the mobile station, the function of the smart card through locking hardware of the smart card, and activating the function of the smart card through unlocking the hardware of the smart card;

or inactivating or activating, by the mobile station, the function of the smart card through executing preinstalled software; and

wherein the method further comprises;

after the mobile station performs the LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation on the smart card, placing the smart card in a locked state or unlocked state; and

after performing the LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation on the smart card, returning, by the mobile station, a SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE short message to the mobile network platform.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein performing, by the smart card management platform, the short message interaction with the terminal side further comprises:

if the smart card management platform fails to receive the SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE short message returned by the terminal side within a predetermined time, continuing, by the smart card management platform, to send the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to the terminal side through the mobile network platform.

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

stopping, by the smart card management platform, sending the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message, if the smart card management platform has sent the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to the terminal side through the mobile network platform for more than a preset number of times.

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

sending, by the smart card management platform, the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to the terminal side at a predetermined interval, if the smart card management platform has sent the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to the terminal side through the mobile network platform for a preset number of times.

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

updating, by the smart card management platform, the smart card to a wait-to-be-locked or unlocked state, when the mobile station in which the smart card is located is offline.

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

continuing, by the smart card management platform, to send the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to the mobile station in which the smart card is located, when the offline mobile station in which the smart card is located is turned on or enters a service area.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein continuing, by the smart card management platform, to send the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to the mobile station in which the smart card is located comprises:

sending, by the smart card management platform, the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to the terminal side at a predetermined interval, if the smart card management platform has sent the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to the terminal side for a preset number of times.

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

updating the smart card to a wait-to-be-locked or unlocked state, when the mobile station in which the smart card is located is offline;

after the smart card is updated to the wait-to-be-locked or unlocked state, when the offline mobile station in which the smart card is located returns to the normal operation condition and registers to the mobile network platform, sending, by the mobile network platform, a LOCKING/UNLOCKING command to the mobile station in which the smart card is located, and executing, by the mobile station, the LOCKING/UNLOCKING command;

wherein the offline state comprises;

a state in which the mobile station is turned off;

or, a state in which the mobile station is not in a service area.

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

after the smart card management platform receives the user'"'"'s request, judging by the smart card management platform, whether the smart card is valid.

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

before the smart card management platform performs the short message interaction with the terminal side through the mobile network platform, performing a security certification between the mobile network platform and the terminal side;

wherein performing a security certification between the mobile network platform and the terminal side comprises;

the mobile station in which the smart card is located, after receiving the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message, determining whether the message is a LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message from the smart card management platform, if so, then performing a corresponding smart card locking/unlocking function according to a command in the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message, and returning, by the mobile station in which the smart card is located, a SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE short message to the smart card management platform, otherwise processing the message as a routine short message.

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

after the smart card management platform receives the request for performing the LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation on the smart card from the user, searching for, by the smart card management platform, state information of the mobile station in which the smart card is located through the mobile network platform.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein searching for, by the smart card management platform, state information of the mobile station in which the smart card is located through the mobile network platform comprises:

searching for, by the smart card management platform, the state information of the mobile station through the mobile network platform according to a mobile identification code and location area information of the mobile station.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein performing the LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation on the smart card comprises:

performing the LOCKING/UNLOCKING operation on the smart card or a payment application of the smart card.

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

performing, by the smart card management platform, an interaction on the LOCKING/UNLOCKING command with the terminal side by the approach of an over-the-air technology, wherein the over-the-air technology comprises a bearer independent protocol.

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

notifying a smart card management platform by a smart card supervision platform if the smart card supervision platform finds that a user uses the smart card illegally or has corrected an illegal behaviour; and

controlling, by the smart card management platform, a terminal side to accomplish locking/unlocking of the smart card through performing a short message interaction with the terminal side.

23. The method according to claim 22,

wherein controlling, by the smart card management platform, a terminal side to accomplish locking/unlocking of the smart card through performing a short message interaction with the terminal side comprises:

searching for, by the smart card management platform, the state information of the mobile station in which the smart card is located through a mobile network platform;

when the mobile station is in a normal operation condition, sending, by the mobile network platform, a LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message command to the mobile station; and

executing, by the mobile station, the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message command to lock or unlock the smart card;

wherein searching for, by the smart card management platform, the state information of the mobile station in which the smart card is located through a mobile network platform comprises;

searching for, by the smart card management platform, the state information of the mobile station through the mobile network platform according to the mobile identification code and location area information of the mobile station;

wherein the method further comprises;

after the mobile station executes the command in the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to lock or unlock the smart card, sending, by the mobile station, a SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE short message to the mobile network platform;

modifying, by the mobile network platform, the state of the smart card to a locked or unlocked state; and

after the smart card management platform finds the state information of the mobile station in which the smart card is located through the mobile network platform, updating, by the mobile network platform, the state of the smart card to the wait-to-be-locked or unlocked state when the mobile station in which the smart card is located is offline.

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

a mobile network platform, used for sending a command in a LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message;

a mobile station, used for executing the command in the LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message to lock or unlock the smart card; and

a smart card management platform, used for receiving a user'"'"'s request and performing a short message interaction with the mobile station through the mobile network platform;

wherein the mobile network platform is further used for searching for the station information of the mobile station in which the smart card is located.

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30. A mobile terminal, which comprises a smart card, further comprising:

a receiving module, used for receiving a short message request for locking/unlocking a smart card;

a performing module, used for performing the locking/unlocking of the smart card; and

a sending module, used for sending a SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE short message,

wherein the locking/unlocking of the smart card comprises;

locking/unlocking of the smart card, or locking/unlocking of a payment application of the smart card.

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33. A mobile network platform, comprising:

a sending module, used for sending a LOCKING/UNLOCKING short message command to a mobile station when the mobile station is in a normal operation condition;

a modifying module, used for updating a state of a smart card, updating the smart card to a destroyed state if a mobile station and the smart card are online and a destroy process is performed successfully, and updating the smart card to a to-be-destroyed state if the mobile station and the smart card are offline; and

a timing module, used for setting a time for sending a LOCKING/UNLOCKING command to the mobile station,

wherein the locking/unlocking of the smart card comprises;

the locking/unlocking of the smart card, or the locking/unlocking of a payment application of the smart card; and

wherein the sending module is used for sending a destroying command by the approach of an over-the-air technology, wherein the over-the-air technology comprises a bearer independent protocol.

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