Patent ID: 7027807

Claim:
Method for the subscriber-initiated automatic subscription and modification of contractual subscriptions, for the administration of existing services including the enabling of end apparatus in telecommunication networks, cellular mobile communication networks, for owners of existing subscription accounts, based on contract and access data, such as subscriber call number and access codes, already available at the network and subscriber end, by automated enabling of additional SIM cards and/or end apparatus only for existing subscribers with already available signed subscription contracts, wherein existing contract and access data stored at the network end are expanded in an automatic method after subscriber dialing into a corresponding subscription device (Customer Subscription and Administration Server CSAS) by the identifying data of the new contract components, wherein for the expansion of the existing contract data by the identifying data of the new contractual subscription, a menu-driven user guidance through the CSAS takes place, with the input of the data taking place by known input techniques (including tactile, by acoustic signal, by infrared signal) and the user guidance takes place utilizing known technical output means (including visual display, voice output), and wherein the CSAS for the authentication of the calling subscriber, for the authorization/verification of the addition contracts, modifications and services, which can be subscribed by the particular subscriber and administered, as well as for storing newly subscribed or modified contracts and services, is connected with the corresponding data bases of the telecommunication network, including CCBS, CDB and HLR.