Patents Assigned to Swisscom Mobile AG
  • Publication number: 20070123167
    Abstract: A method is disclosed with which a telecommunication user can access a telecommunications service by means of a telecommunications terminal and an electronic address. The telecommunications user reads an electronic code (100) stored in an RFID element (1) by means of an RFID reader device (2), said electronic code (100) is transmitted to a name service server (6) over a telecommunications network (4), said name service server (6) replies with the electronic page address of a page corresponding to the code and that can be used to determine the electronic address, the electronic address is made available to the telecommunications terminal and said telecommunications service is accessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Eric Lauper
  • Publication number: 20070123216
    Abstract: A method for adapting the security settings of a communication station (12) depending on a security relevant event is disclosed, wherein the communication station (12) comprises a mobile terminal (16) with an identification module (18). In a first step, the security relevant event occurring in said communication station and/or said mobile terminal (16) is identified in an event handler (26, 261, 262, 27) and stored in an event registry (28). In a second step, a security registry (30) in the identification module (18) is updated according to the identified event. In a third step, the security level of the communication station (12) and/or the mobile terminal (16) is adapted according to the security registry (30) of the identification module (18). The invention also relates to a communication station (12) and to an identification module (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Renato Cantini, Paul Aebi
  • Patent number: 7225337
    Abstract: A portable electronic security module including an electronic data storage device, a secret private customer key and a public customer key stored in the electronic data storage device as a first digital key pair, a signature module configured to generate a digital customer signature from object data to be signed using the secret private customer key, a secret private key of a security provider and a public key of the security provider stored in the electronic data storage device as a second digital key pair, and a certification module, installed in the signature module, and configured to generate a digital signature certificate from the digital customer signature using the secret private key of the security provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Felix Baessler
  • Publication number: 20070114278
    Abstract: A method is disclosed with which a terminal (3) can retrieve information associated to an EPC code from an EPC network (4, 5, 6, 7). The EPC code is virtual, is generated independently of RFID tags and is stored permanently and is not—or not permanently—associated to an RFID tag. A terminal (3) sends a message with the EPC code over a telecommunication network (4) to an object name server (6), the server (6) replies with the address of the desired PML page and the terminal (3) access the content of said PML page. The invention also relates to a corresponding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Eric Lauper
  • Patent number: 7219833
    Abstract: Method for blocking respectively unblocking a money account bound to a SIM card (10). The money account is designed for paying services of several providers (2). The money account is blocked respectively unblocked depending on the dynamically determined location of the mobile user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Renato Cantini, Karin Busch Lauper
  • Publication number: 20070099595
    Abstract: Telecommunications method, and system suitable therefor, for establishing a connection with a mobile device, for example a GSM mobile radio telephone, of a participant, who is located in a VPLMN, the calling mobile participant in the VPLMN preparing and sending a short message, for example a USSD message, with the desired destination number, which will be passed on to a callback computer, which establishes a connection between the calling mobile participant and the desired destination number, and a connection being established with a called mobile participant in a VPLMN by a callback computer, whose number is assigned to this called mobile participant in the home location register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: SWISSCOM MOBILE AG
    Inventors: Michael Koch, Werner Hirzel, Martin Meier, Anton Stadelmann
  • Publication number: 20070092114
    Abstract: A method, a communication system and a remote server (6, 7) are disclosed for comparing biometric data recorded with different biometric sensors (1.3, 8) with reference data. In the inventive method, biometric data are recorded by the biometric sensor (1.3, 8). Simultaneously, the type of sensor is determined and sensor-dependent parameters are determined depending on the type of the sensor (1.3, 8) outside the sensor (1.3, 8). The recorded biometric data are compared with reference data, whereas for the comparison the parameters dependent on the sensor (1.3, 8) are taken into account. Advantageously, a comparison of biometric data that have been recorded with sensors (1.3, 8) from different manufacturers is possible easily and reliably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Ritter, Eric Lauper
  • Publication number: 20070066318
    Abstract: A computer system (2) for transmitting context-specific data via a mobile radio network to a mobile communication terminal (3, 3?) and configured to receive and store condition data assigned to data elements of a data delivery unit (1). The computer system (2) checks whether the mobile communication terminal (3) satisfies one or more conditions defined by the condition data. If one of the conditions is satisfied, the computer system (2) triggers the transmission of context-specific data elements via the mobile radio network to the mobile communication terminal (3, 3?). The context-specific data elements are those data elements that are assigned to condition data that define the condition satisfied by the mobile communication terminal (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: SWISSCOM MOBILE AG
    Inventors: Marc Danzeisen, Marc Heissenbuttel, Stefan Mauron, Jan Linder
  • Patent number: 7194432
    Abstract: A billing method and billing system to determine usage fees which are charged to the user of a digital telecommunications network, whereby a usage fee charged for a connection is determined prior to establishing this connection from statistical characteristics of previous connections of the user, is described. Usage fees are determined from a dynamic client profile, derived from one or multiple random variables of previous connections of the user, which is stored in memory and rederived after each new customer connection. In a simple variant, the client profile contains a value proportional to the average price per connection or to the average duration of a connection of the user. The random variables used to derive the client profile include, for example, the connection duration, the time of day, the day of the week, and/or geographic characteristics of previous connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Ritter, Walter Heutschi
  • Patent number: 7194253
    Abstract: Method with which a mobile user in a mobile network can order products, with the following steps: recording an image corresponding to the product to be ordered, linking the image data with a personal identification of the mobile user, transmitting the linked order message to a server in said mobile radio network, comparing said image data with images stored in a product database, each of said image in said database being linked with an identification of the product provider, sending a message containing an identification of the ordered product and of the ordering mobile user to said product provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Ritter, Eric Lauper
  • Publication number: 20070055783
    Abstract: For providing to a user on a communication terminal (1) media content (31) from a content server (3), a Session Initiation Protocol message, addressed to a resource identifier identifying the media content (31), is transmitted from the communications terminal (1) to a Call Session Control Function unit (S-CSCF), in response to the user activating a hyperlink associated with the media content (31). If there are filter criteria (iFC) associated with the user and associating the first message with an application server (SIP-AS), the resource identifier is transmitted from the Call Session Control Function unit (S-CSCF) to the application server (SIP-AS). The application server (SIP-AS) transmits to the communication terminal (1) accessing means for the user to retrieve the media content (31) from the content server (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: SWISSCOM MOBILE AG
    Inventor: Christophe Gourraud
  • Publication number: 20070052672
    Abstract: It is discloses a communication device, system and method comprising a Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) in form of glasses (1), at least one haptic sensor (12) mounted on the frame of said glasses or connected by a short range communication interface (13) to said glasses (1), wherein it is possible to navigate by means of a cursor through an image displayed by the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) with the at least one haptic sensor (12). A central control unit controls (11) the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) and the at least one haptic sensor (12). When the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) is connected to an external device (2, 9) by a short range communication interface (13), the user can navigate through the content of the external device (2, 9) by easy use of the haptic sensor (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Ritter, Eric Lauper
  • Publication number: 20070035400
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for displaying on a product (1) a reference (30) relating to protective rights that protect a product (1). According to the method, an RFID element (10) is linked to a product (1) and the RFID element (10) contains data on the basis of which at least one protective right indication (30) can be determined. The protective right indication (30) can be downloaded from a remote server (7) over a telecommunication network. The invention also relates to a system having at least one server (7) where protective right indications (30) are stored that correspond to said products (1) and to a database system where one or several protective right indications (30) are stored corresponding to said products (1) and to a database system where one or several protective right indications (30) are linked to at least some of said codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Eric Lauper
  • Publication number: 20070038723
    Abstract: For subscribing a user to a service offered by a first application server (SIP-AS1) of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, a request for the service, addressed to a public service identifier of the service, is received from the user in a Call Session Control Function unit (S-CSCF). The request is evaluated based on filter criteria (iCF) associated with the user. In absence of the filter criteria (iCF) associating the service with the first application server (SIP-AS1), the request is forwarded to a second application server (SIP-AS2) based on addressing information obtained from filter criteria (FC) associated with the public service identifier. The second application server (SIP-AS2) transmits to the user a message that includes means for enabling the user to subscribe to the service. Users can be subscribed to a service at the time they desire to use the service, immediately preceding usage of the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: SWISSCOM MOBILE AG
    Inventor: Christophe Gourraud
  • Publication number: 20070023506
    Abstract: The invention relates to an authorization verification method and devices suited therefor, which play back authorization data via a user interface (11) of an electronic playback device (1). During the playback of authorization data via the user interface (11) of a first playback device (1), the playback attributes are modified. The playback of authorization data via the user interface (11) of the first playback device (1) is compared with the playback of reference data via a user interface (21) of a second electronic playback device (2). Authorization is granted in the event the playback of authorization data via the user interface (11) of the first playback device (1) matches the playback of reference data via the user interface (21) of the second playback device (2), and modifications of the playback attributes are, in essence, time-synchronized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: SWISSCOM MOBILE AG
    Inventors: Roger Lagadec, Renato Cantini, Bruno Messmer
  • Publication number: 20070022472
    Abstract: Method and system for ordering, loading and using admission tickets for access to access-controlled service devices, in which admission tickets are ordered from a reservation center through transmission of order data via an order channel, the order data comprising the call number of a mobile communications terminal to which the ordered admission tickets are transmitted via a mobile network and are stored there in a memory module. The data exchange between this memory module and a reading device of a said service device takes place over a contactless interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: SWISSCOM MOBILE AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Ritter, Eric Lauper
  • Patent number: 7167563
    Abstract: Decoding device with a decoding module (4) that decodes digital digitally encoded image data. The decoding of said image data is dependent on the programming of an FPGA circuit. In a first embodiment, the key generator for the decoding module is provided with an FPGA circuit. In a second embodiment, the decoding module is provided with an FPGA circuit. The FPGA circuit and/or the FPGA memory can be located in a removable chip-card. The content of the FPGA memory can be updated by the sender over different possible transmission channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Bischoff, Rudolph Ritter, Eric Lauper
  • Publication number: 20070016479
    Abstract: A method for obtaining information on a product (1), said method comprising the following steps: the product (1) is marked with several codes (100, 101) that are stored in one or several RFID tags (11, 11?); at least one of said codes is read contactlessly by means of an RFID reader device (2); said reader device (2) sends a set of one or several read codes to a name service server (6) over a telecommunication network (4); said name service server (6) answers with the address of one or several hypertext pages; and the sought information (7) is accessed by means of said hypertext pages. The invention is characterized in that not all codes (100, 101) read by the RFID reader device are contained in the set sent, and in that the code or codes (100, 101) contained in said set are selected in said reader device (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Eric Lauper
  • Patent number: 7164927
    Abstract: The invention relates to a telecommunication method and a system suitable for same for establishing a connection with a mobile station, for example a GSM mobile telephone, of a subscriber located in a visited public land mobile network. According to said method the calling mobile subscriber in the visited public land mobile network prepares a short message, for example an unstructured supplementary service data message with the desired destination number and sends said message, which is then transmitted to a callback computer which establishes a connection between the calling mobile subscriber and the desired destination number. A connection to a called mobile subscriber in a visited public land mobile network is established by a callback computer whose number is assigned to the called mobile subscriber in the home location register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Michael Koch, Werner Hirzel, Martin Meier, Anton Niklaus Stadelmann
  • Publication number: 20070009101
    Abstract: The aim of this invention is to provide a method to allocate resources on a security module of a portable apparatus such as a telephone, taking into account the security imperatives of the different intervening parties, such as the operator and application suppliers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicants: NAGRACARD S.A., SWISSCOM MOBILE AG
    Inventors: Rached Ksontini, Stephane Joly, Renato Cantini, Mehdi Tazi