Patents Assigned to Swisscom Mobile AG
  • Patent number: 8001615
    Abstract: A method for managing the security of applications with a security module associated to an equipment connected to a network managed by a control server of an operator. The applications use resources as data or functions stored in the security module locally connected to the equipment. The method may include steps of receiving, analyzing and verifying, by the control server, identification data from the equipment and the security module, generating a cryptogram from the result of the verification of the identification data, transmitting the cryptogram to the security module of the equipment, and selectively activating or selectively deactivating by the security module at least one resource as data or functions of the security module by executing instructions included in the cryptogram and conditioning the functioning of an application according to criteria established by a supplier of the application or the operator or a user of the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignees: Nagravision S.A., Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Rached Ksontini, Renato Cantini
  • Patent number: 7750810
    Abstract: A method system, and device for identification by an identification tag in which a request to a control module of the identification tag is transmitted from an interrogation device via a contactless interface of the identification tag, so that the control module accesses identification data stored in a memory module assigned to the identification tag. The identification data are transmitted via the contactless interface. Body-specific identification data of the wearer are captured and transmitted to a verification module by a measuring device assigned to the identification tag, or a sensor, and/or an analysis device. The transmitted body-specific identification data is compared with the identification data stored in the memory module by the verification module, to confirm the identity of the wearer. The identification tag is injected and/or implanted under the skin of the wearer. The identification tag can be in particular an RFID and/or NFC tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Ritter, Eric Lauper
  • Patent number: 7711356
    Abstract: A method and a system for automated call diversion of calls intended for a mobile radio device to a second network connection. A detection module of a customer premises equipment detects the mobile radio device as soon as it is located in the sphere of influence of an interface between the mobile radio device and the customer premises equipment, whereby identification data of the mobile radio device are transmitted via the interface. Based on the identification data of the mobile radio device, call diversion of calls intended for the mobile radio device to the second network device is activated as long as the mobile radio device is located in the sphere of influence of the interface between the mobile radio device and the customer premises equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Rudolf Ritter
  • Patent number: 7693056
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for a communication node with a plurality of network interfaces. Configured on the communication node is a virtual interface, which is accessible from the applications able to be executed on the communication node. A configuration module generates an identifier assigned to the communication node. The identifier is stored in an identifier table. The configuration module checks the communication node for available network interfaces and sets up a network interface table with the available network interfaces. At least one IP address of an available network interface is stored in the identifier table in a way assigned to the identifier, and a connection module connects at least one of the available network interfaces to the virtual interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Marc Heissenbüttel, Marc Danzeisen, Jan Linder, Felix Aeschlimann
  • Patent number: 7693107
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a local network switching device for providing access for a mobile communication terminal and the mobile communication terminal at a moved location to an Internet network via wireless local networks. The mobile communication terminal is moved from a first network to a second network. The WLAN handover, necessary therefore, takes place efficiently and in a robust manner, by providing access for the mobile communication terminal in the first network, by transmitting a device-specific address to a plurality of bordering networks, and by configuring further accesses on the plurality of bordering networks. After moving the mobile communication terminal, access to an Internet network can be continued immediately via the second network, via the local network switching unit of the second network, and via the local network switching unit of the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Eric De Froment
  • Patent number: 7684823
    Abstract: A cellular mobile radio network having at least one base station integrated into a facility supplied via a power supply network and being connected to an assigned base station controller. The at least one base station includes a module for exchanging radio frequency signals with mobile radio devices; a first transceiver module configured to couple the at least one base station to the power supply network; and a control device configured to control the facility. The control device is connected to the facility via the power supply network or directly, and includes an identification module and a module for communicating with a central unit, the control device being identifiable by the central unit based on the identification module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Eric Lauper
  • Patent number: 7643455
    Abstract: A method for assigning IP addresses to mobile IP nodes in heterogeneous networks including checking, using an interface administration module of the mobile node, the mobile node for available physical network interfaces, generating a lookup table with the available and configurable physical network interfaces, linking the interface administration module to one of the available physical network interfaces, accessing the heterogeneous networks via a permanent virtual IP network interface generated in the mobile node, the generated permanent virtual IP network interface being linked to the current network via the interface administration module, and updating, during a change of the physical network interface of the mobile node, the link of the permanent virtual IP network interface to the network based on the lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Jan Linder, Marc Danzeisen
  • Patent number: 7630524
    Abstract: Biometric identification and/or authentication method for identifying and/or authenticating the user (1) of a terminal (2), wherein said user is identified and/or authenticated by means of personal involuntary eye movement patters being determined with an eye-movement detection module (20). The user is identified and/or authenticated for example by means of characteristics of the personal trajectory (51) of the eyes on an image being determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Eric Lauper, Adriano Huber
  • Patent number: 7627315
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Michael Koch, Werner Hirzel, Martin Meier, Anton Niklaus Stadelmann
  • Patent number: 7610040
    Abstract: Method for detecting possible frauds in payment transactions between at least two partners (1, 2), the payment transaction data and/or payment authorization data being transmitted over at least one mobile radio network, at least one multivalued parameter used for detecting a possible fraud attempt being determined in said mobile radio network, said payment transactions being performed over at least one payment service provider (4), at least a second multivalued parameter used for detecting a possible fraud attempt being determined by said payment service provider (4), and certain combinations of said first and second parameters are sought in said fraud detection module in order to detect fraud attempts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Renato Cantini, Karin Busch Lauper
  • Patent number: 7606931
    Abstract: Method with which a first application, for example in a mobile telephone, can access components in a second application, for example a chip card, for which no standardized data unit has been defined in the logical interface between said applications. For this purpose, the first application sends a misused standardized data unit to said second application. The second application recognizes that said data unit has been misused and accordingly makes available said component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Adriano Huber
  • Patent number: 7590547
    Abstract: A method and associated arrangement allows a content or service provider to establish an anonymous profile of a consumer using at least one request sent by the consumer through a communication network. The request sent by the consumer includes identification data of the consumer. The identification data is substituted in the network with an alias so as to anonymize the request. The identification data is not accessible to the content or service provider and there is a one-to-one and immutable correspondence between the identification data and the alias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Roger Lagadec, Didier Durand, Christophe Taddei
  • Patent number: 7571863
    Abstract: A method is disclosed with which a terminal can retrieve information associated to an EPC code from an EPC network. The EPC code is virtual, is generated independently of RFID tags, is stored permanently, and is not—or not permanently—associated to an RFID tag. A terminal sends a message with the EPC code over a telecommunication network to an object name server, the server replies with the address of the desired PML page and the terminal access the content of said PML page. The invention also relates to a corresponding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Eric Lauper
  • Patent number: 7565671
    Abstract: A system and a suitable method for distribution of picture objects which are stored with assigned picture object information in a picture object database. In a media center of the system, user identification data are received which are transmitted to the media center by communications terminals via a communications network. In the media center user interests profiles are defined which, assigned to the received user identification data, are stored in a user interests database. On the basis of the correlation of particular user interests profiles with picture object information, picture objects are selected and transmitted via the communications network to the respective communications terminal from which the received user identification data were transmitted. The current direction of view of a user of the communications terminal is determined and transmitted to the media center, where picture objects which are viewed by the user are identified based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Ritter, Eric Lauper
  • Patent number: 7509098
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and a system for management of resources of portable resource modules (1, 1?), each connected to a communication terminal (2, 2?, 2?), which modules comprise electronic memory units (11) and are designed in particular as chipcards. A first resource management instruction comprising a module identification is transmitted to a resource management centre (4). A second resource management instruction is transmitted from the resource management centre (4) via a communication network (3) to the resource module (1) identified through the module identification. In the particular resource module (1), resources are made ready or released by a resource control mechanism (111) corresponding to the received second resource management instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignees: Swisscom Mobile AG, NagraCard S.A.
    Inventors: Renato Cantini, Roger Lagadec, Karin Busch Lauper
  • Patent number: 7496370
    Abstract: A method for location-based services over a mobile radio network. The method includes sending, to a mobile apparatus, at least one or more data messages generated according to a telecommunication standard. The method includes generating, by the mobile radio apparatus, an error report upon (i) reception of the at least one or more generated data messages and (ii) a determination from the at least one or more data messages that, according to the telecommunications standard, the error report has to be produced. The method further includes sending the error report, generated based upon the telecommunication standard of the received data messages, to at least a base station and/or a node of a cell in which the mobile radio apparatus is currently located or attached. The method also includes updating and storing the location information of the mobile radio apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Asesh Bhaumick
  • Patent number: 7490067
    Abstract: Method for selling and using digital media objects (6) as well as a mobile communications terminal (1) suitable therefor, in which method a media object (6) is ordered from a center (3) by a user by means of his mobile communications terminal (1), and is transmitted by the center (3) via a radio network (2) to the mobile communications terminal (1), where the transmitted media object (6) is stored in a memory (12) and where a media content (62) contained in the transmitted media object (6) is played back by a media playback module (13) of the said communications terminal (1) via a suitable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Adriano Huber, Claudio Cabano
  • Patent number: 7478065
    Abstract: Payment transaction method and payment transaction system in which payment transactions between customers with portable mobile devices (1), for example mobile radio telephones, and a plurality of payment terminals (2) are carried out at a service point (5), the payment terminal (2) responsible for a payment transaction informing the respective customer about its payment terminal identification and a total transaction amount, the customer indicating the payment terminal identification to the mobile device (1) and the mobile device (1) transmitting a transaction initiation record, comprising the payment terminal identification as well as a customer identification, via a contactless device interface (11-21) to the payment terminal (2) as well as via a mobile radio network (6) to a central transaction unit (4), the payment terminal (2) transmitting, after receipt of the transaction initiation record, a transaction placing record comprising a service point identification, the payment terminal identification and th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Ritter, Georges Schlegel, Eric Lauper
  • Patent number: 7444674
    Abstract: For end-to-end securing of transactions between a mobile terminal and an Internet server on the application layer, cryptographic transaction identification records, which are directed by the Internet server application to transaction partner applications in the mobile terminal, are stored, assigned to the mobile terminal, in a proxy server. In each case a record identification is transmitted to the mobile terminal for a stored transaction identification record as well as a proxy record, which is calculated by the proxy server from the respective stored transaction identification record. In each case a record identification and a proxy record are taken by the proxy server from the messages directed by the mobile terminal to the Internet server application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain Etique, Adriano Huber
  • Patent number: 7433685
    Abstract: Order method comprising following steps: reproduction of the offer of a provider with electronic reproduction means of a personal terminal, selection of the offer through the user, execution in said personal terminal of an order program linked to the selected offer, with which order data can be entered, the order program using the order parameters transmitted with the offer, linking of said order data with user identification data stored in a personal identification module, transmission of an order message with said linked data to the provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventor: Rudolf Ritter