Patent ID: 9357375
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. In a telecommunications network including a plurality of network providers, a method of using a terminal to reconfigure a smart card from being registered with a first network provider to being registered with a second network provider, the method comprising: receiving, at the smart card, a reconfiguration request from the second network provider, the request including an identifier for the smart card, the identifier provided by the second network provider; selecting, in response to receiving the reconfiguration request, a set of authentication information from a store of authentication information sets, wherein the authentication information sets are pre-stored in the store prior to the smart card being registered with any network provider and without the smart card receiving the authentication information sets from any network provider, each authentication information set including information for use by network providers to activate the smart card, wherein the store is on the smart card, wherein each set of the pre-stored authentication information sets in the store is associated with a unique identifier, and wherein any of the pre-stored authentication sets is usable by any of the plurality of network providers to enable registration of the smart card therewith, each of the pre-stored authentication information sets being associated with secret information that is generic to all of the pre-stored authentication information sets; and associating the selected authentication information set with corresponding authentication information at the second network provider identifier in order to enable the registration of the smart card with the second network provider.