Patent ID: 9020501
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a service provider of a multi-card mobile terminal having two or more cards, comprising: acquiring an IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identification Number) corresponding to each card; extracting an HPLMN (Home Public Land Mobile Network) or an EHPLMN (Equal Home Public Land Mobile Network) corresponding to the card from the IMSI; acquiring information about an affiliated country and an affiliated operator corresponding to the card from the HPLMN or EHPLMN; and when affiliated operators of the cards are the same, determining that the cards belong to a same service provider; when affiliated operators of the cards are not identical, acquiring a service country of the mobile terminal; identifying cards for which affiliated countries and service countries are totally different, and causing said identified cards to be resided and registered in a network selected from those included in affiliated operators corresponding to cards for which affiliated countries are the same as service countries; after successful registration of some or all of the cards, determining that the cards with the affiliated countries different from the service countries and those with the affiliated countries the same as the service countries belong to the same service provider; and after registration failure of some or all of the cards, the cards with failed registration are registered in the network selected from those included in an operator corresponding to the service country of the mobile terminal, wherein the operator corresponding to the service country of the mobile terminal is different than the affiliated operator corresponding to each card with failed registration.