AI Mobile Subscription Profile Matching for Device Type Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

The proliferation of mobile devices with varying capabilities poses challenges in managing mobile subscription profiles, leading to compatibility and security issues due to the inability to distinguish between different types of devices effectively.

Innovation Solution

An AI-based system analyzes the type of a mobile terminal using SQL database queries to ensure compatibility between the device and its subscription profile, allowing or preventing operation based on the device type, and taking countermeasures for incompatible devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If mobile subscription profiles are made universally compatible across different device types, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to security risks and malfunction potential

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidreliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments mobile devices into distinct categories (smartphones, feature phones, IoT devices) and assigns specific subscription profiles to each category. This segmentation prevents universal profile compatibility while ensuring that each device type receives appropriately tailored profiles, thereby maintaining reliability without compromising operational ease within each segment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by tailoring subscription profiles to specific device types rather than using a universal approach. Each device category receives customized profiles with appropriate permissions and restrictions, ensuring that the profile characteristics match the local requirements and security needs of each device type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If device type analysis is implemented to ensure profile compatibility, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional analysis requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovereliabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by analyzing device type and assigning appropriate subscription profiles before the device begins operation. This upfront classification ensures reliability by preventing incompatible profile assignments, while the complexity is managed through automated analysis rather than ongoing manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing device characteristics and determining the appropriate device type category without requiring manual intervention. This automation reduces the perceived complexity for users while maintaining high reliability through consistent, rule-based profile assignment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Manufacturing precision

If AI-based analysis is used to determine device type and profile compatibility, then manufacturing precision is improved, but use of energy increases due to computational requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing precisionVSAvoiduse of energy by moving object
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial action by using AI-based analysis only when necessary for device type classification and profile assignment, rather than continuously. The system performs the computational analysis at key decision points, achieving high precision in profile matching while minimizing energy consumption by avoiding redundant analysis during normal operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP4686239A1Anrticial intelligence application for mobile terminal type analysis and subscription profile management
Publication Date: 2026.01.28 GIESECKE DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GERMANY GMBH
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AI summary

A method for managing the operation of a mobile terminal with a hosted mobile subscription profile includes using an Al-based system to analyze the type of the mobile terminal. The Al-based system allows or restricts further operation of the mobile terminal with the subscription profile based on whether the profile is dedicated to the terminal's type. The system is designed to differentiate between various types of mobile terminals, such as high-end smartphones, mid-end mobile terminals, and low-end terminals, including Internet-of-Things devices. It prevents the operation of a smartphone with an Internet-of-Things dedicated subscription profile and vice versa. The Al-based system utilizes SQL database queries to determine the mobile terminal's type by analyzing specific features like data encoding, chipset type, RAM size, display type, and browser type.