Patent ID: 6836670
Filing Date: 2004-12-28
Classification: G06Q,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A system to remotely operate wireless telecommunications devices, the system comprising:a first subscriber identity module bank having a number of slots for receiving a number of subscriber identity modules; a first subscriber identity module server associated with the first subscriber identity module bank and responsive to requests to provide subscriber identity information from the subscriber identity modules, if any, received at the slots of the associated subscriber identity module bank; at least a first subscriber identity module comprising an irretrievable and un-modifiable subscriber identifier and a retrievable and modifiable set of subscriber customization information, the first subscriber identity module configured upon request to provide a set of subscriber identity information based at least in part on the subscriber identifier and configured upon request to provide at least a portion of the set of subscriber customization information, the first subscriber identity module received at one of the slots of the first subscriber identity module bank; and a first remote wireless communications client having at least a first wireless telecommunications device, the first remote wireless communications client selectively couplable to receive the set of subscriber customization information from the first subscriber identity module via a communications channel in response to a request to the first subscriber identity module server for use in configuring the first wireless communications device, the communications channel being different from a cellular communications link used for wireless communications to a destination device by the first wireless communications device.