Patent ID: 9253630
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of managing identities for use in a mobile telecommunications device in a telecommunications network, the method comprising: triggering an identity management process based on a decision trigger detected by a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM); detecting one or more parameters of a set of parameters of a currently available mobile telecommunications network; identifying the decision trigger from a set of decision triggers; said set of decision triggers comprising changes to the contents of configuration files in the SIM and commands received via the mobile telecommunications device by the SIM; wherein the identity of each of the decision triggers in the set defines a specific corresponding identity management process to be implemented; determining a network identifier by the identity management process determined by the identified decision trigger and by the detected one or more parameters of the mobile telecommunications network; and selecting a selected identity in accordance with the network identifier determined and modifying an active identity of the mobile telecommunications device to be the selected identity when the active identity is not already the selected identity; wherein selecting the selected identity comprises searching an identity database comprising one or more entries of Mobile Country Codes to find the entry of a Mobile Country Code in the identity database that corresponds to a Mobile Country Code of the network identifier determined and selecting an International Mobile Subscriber Identity of the entry.