Vodafone IP Licensing Limited

Vodafone Group Plc.

Stephen H Babbage

Nicholas Bone

Aguibou Barry

Christopher Pudney

Caroline Belrose

Timothy James Wright

Miguel Arranz

Adam Gianniotis

Gerald Mcquaid

Caroline Jessica Belrose

Aguibou Mountaga Barry

Robert Koehler

Alberto Gòmez

Method, system or Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) for provisioning a UICC with a new key. The UICC contains an initial subscriber key shared between the UICC and an authentication center. A new key is exchanged between the UICC and the authentication center using a communication between the UICC and the authentication center authenticated using the initial subscriber key. The new key is used in place of the initial subscriber key for further communications with the UICC.

Mitigation of problems arising from SIM key leakage

Method, system and apparatus for provisioning a subscription of a service to a device comprising: receiving a message from a device, the message protected by first provisioning data installed on the device. Authenticating the message using data corresponding to the first provisioning data. On successful authentication, providing data enabling the device to recover protected second provisioning data from a subscription manager. Providing the device with the protected second provisioning data.

Resource management in a cellular network

Provisioning a subscriber in a network is provided by: receiving an initialisation request for access to a network on behalf of a subscriber, at an admission platform of a network operator associated with the subscriber, and assigning the subscriber limited access rights to the network, the limited access rights being configured for communication between the subscriber and a subscription manager, for reconfiguration of identity information associated with the subscriber.

Provisioning a network subscription

Where a smartcard is embedded or inaccessible within a cellular telecommunications device (i.e. an eUICC), locking the smartcard (or the subscription associated with the smartcard) to a particular MNO while allowing the MNO to be altered legitimately presents a challenge. A method is described using policy control tables stored in a trusted service manager registry and/or the smartcard's data store. By maintaining the policy control table, any MNO subscription may be downloaded/activated on the smartcard but the device will be prevented from accessing the desired MNO because that access would violate the lock rules.

SIM locking

System and method of anonymising data comprising the steps of reading parameters of an anonymisation procedure from a configurable anonymisation procedure resource. Receiving data to be anonymised from a data source, wherein the data source is identified by one or more of the read parameters. Applying one or more transformations to the received data according to the anonymisation procedure, wherein the one or more transformations include transforming at least an original portion of the received data into a transformed portion.

Anonymization and filtering data

To facilitate a change in network authentication key (Ki) for use by a smart card (SIM) during authentication on a cellular telecommunications network, there is provided a smart card management scheme that combines key derivation with over the air (OTA) provisioning. This scheme ensures both that the Ki is never transmitted OTA and that the Ki is stored in two locations only: on the SIM and at an authentication center (AuC).

Key derivation

A framework whereby mobile terminals are configured and managed by a central server. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile telecommunications terminal including a first execution environment and a second execution environment, each execution environment being arranged to execute a respective device management agent and each agent issuing, in accordance with instructions from a device management server, management actions that act upon one or more respective management entities running within one or more of the execution environments; wherein the management entities of the second execution environment are grouped into a management structure, the management structure being one of the management entities within the first execution environment, whereby the he first and second execution environments permit the device management server is permitted to manage applications and/or services running within both.

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London, United Kingdom

Stephen H Babbage