US 12,408,023 B2
Use of a communication profile by a plurality of mobile terminals
Thomas Mueller, Munich (DE); and Michael Neuhaeuser, Sankt Wolfgang (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/433,315
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/052823
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/239273, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 113 967.8 (DE), filed on May 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0141649 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/24 (2013.01) [H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling a mobile terminal comprising:
activating a communication profile of the mobile terminal;
transmitting a notification relating to the activation to an external entity;
storing an identifier for the activation, the stored identifier including a serial number and a timestamp that indicates at which time the communication profile is activated;
receiving a deactivation request and an identifier; and deactivating the communication profile if the received identifier corresponds to the stored identifier;
wherein the received identifier is determined by the mobile terminal and is transmitted from the mobile terminal to the external entity;
wherein the deactivation request has a predetermined lifetime and is deleted after the predetermined lifetime has expired; and
wherein the predetermined lifetime is individually assigned to the deactivation request.