Patent ID: 9425844
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04B,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for personalization of a mobile equipment, the mobile equipment having a physically unswappable smart card personalized to a first telecommunications subscription of a first mobile network operator (MNO) to thereby lock the mobile equipment to a telecommunications network of the first MNO, wherein the first telecommunications subscription is available on the smart card and is updateable, the method comprising: receiving, at a trusted service manager (TSM), a request to replace the first telecommunications subscription of the first MNO with a second telecommunications subscription of a second MNO; accessing, by the TSM, a personalization rule table record corresponding to the smart card to determine whether the personalization rule table record indicates that the requested replacement is forbidden; and upon a condition in which the personalization rule table record does not indicate that the requested replacement is forbidden: