Patent ID: 9712994
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing identities for use in a mobile telecommunications device in a telecommunications network, wherein the mobile telecommunications device comprises one or more identities associated with a home telecommunications network, the method comprising: triggering an identity management process; detecting one or more parameters of a currently available mobile telecommunications network, the currently available mobile telecommunications network being different from the home telecommunications network; in the identity management process, searching an identity database wherein each record comprises an identity and additional identity information for each identity, wherein the additional identity information includes the one or more parameters; in the identity management process, selecting the identity of a first record when the first record comprising the one or more parameters detected is found in said searching, wherein a default identity is selected when a record comprising the one or more parameters is not detected in said searching, the default identity is not an identity associated with the home telecommunications network of the mobile telecommunications device; and in the identity management process, modifying an active identity of the mobile telecommunications device to be the selected identity when the active identity is not already the selected identity to authenticate the mobile telecommunication device for use on the currently available mobile telecommunication network.