KR20050078741A - The method for protecting private information from lost or stolen portable phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention transmits a short message including a callback URL (URL) to a lost mobile phone, so that the lost mobile phone is automatically connected to a specific server, thereby preventing personal information stored in the lost mobile phone from leaking. The method relates to a method of protecting personal information stored in a lost cellular phone and a recording medium recording the same.

The present invention provides a method for protecting personal information stored in a lost mobile phone, comprising: a first step of transmitting a short message including a callback UEL to a lost mobile phone; When the lost cellular phone automatically accesses the callback UEL included in the short message as an address, the lost cellular phone carries control information including a request code and a password code for processing personal information stored in the lost cellular phone. Transmitting through a wireless data channel to a telephone; And a third step in which the lost cellular phone receives the control information, transmits a response according to the reception, and processes the personal information stored in the memory according to the request.

Description

The method for protecting private information from lost or stolen portable phone}

The present invention relates to a method for protecting personal information stored in a stolen or lost mobile phone, and more particularly, a short message including a callback URL (URL) is transmitted to a lost mobile phone so that the lost mobile phone can be connected to a specific server. The present invention relates to a method for processing personal information stored in the lost cellular phone so as not to leak, and a recording medium recording the same.

Mobile phones now offer a variety of additional functions beyond basic communication. For example, you can now use mobile phones to pay for certain items, such as credit cards. In this case, important information that should not be exposed to other people is stored in the mobile phone. In addition, the mobile phone stores various personal contents (for example, multimedia message data, photos, etc.) and phone number information. In general, a user sets a password to protect personal information stored in the mobile phone. However, if a password is not set, personal information stored in the mobile phone may leak to another person. Of course, even if a password has been set, current state-of-the-art technology will allow you to view personal information stored on your phone unless you delete it.

As a conventional technology for preventing the leakage of personal information stored in such a mobile phone, there is a Korean Patent Publication No. 2001-39387 (name of the invention: a data protection method embedded in a lost mobile terminal and a recording medium thereof). The prior art transmits a lost mobile phone including information for controlling the lost mobile phone in a short message. The lost cellular phone interprets the received short message, compares the control information included in the short message with information stored in its own memory, and if it matches, requests the user to protect the data stored in the lost cellular phone. Handle according to the matter.

However, the prior art as described above has the following problems.

First, short messages have a limit on the amount of data they can transmit. Therefore, if the data protection control information (for example, public key and private key) cannot be included in one short message, the data must be divided and transmitted several times.

Second, it is impossible to protect personal information stored in the mobile phone to be lost unless the user has stored information such as a password for comparison with control information previously transmitted to the mobile phone.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, an object of the present invention is to send a short message including a callback URL (URL) to the lost mobile phone, the lost mobile phone is a specific server The present invention provides a method of protecting personal information stored in a lost mobile phone and a recording medium recording the same, by automatically accessing the personal information stored in the lost mobile phone.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for protecting personal information stored in a lost mobile phone, the method comprising: transmitting a short message including a callback UEL to a lost mobile phone; When the lost cellular phone automatically accesses the callback UEL included in the short message as an address, the lost cellular phone carries control information including a request code and a password code for processing personal information stored in the lost cellular phone. Transmitting through a wireless data channel to a telephone; And a third step in which the lost cellular phone receives the control information, transmits a response according to the reception, and processes the personal information stored in the memory according to the request.

Preferably, in the first step, the short message service center transmits the short message at the request of the customer support center.

Preferably, the first step is performed by requesting the transmission of the short message from the multimedia messaging service center to the short message service center by the loss report from the customer support center.

Preferably, the short message transmitted includes a service identifier and a callback UEL indicating how to process the short message in the mobile phone.

Preferably, after receiving the short message, the cellular phone checks the service identifier and automatically runs a program to automatically access the callback URL as an address.

Preferably, the mobile phone which has received the short message connects to the callback UE and notifies the current location information of the mobile phone.

Preferably the encryption code is generated using the customer's personal information to enable decryption by the customer when the lost cellular phone is found.

The present invention also provides a first step of transmitting, from a computer, a short message including a callback UEL to a lost mobile phone; When the lost cellular phone automatically accesses the callback UEL included in the short message as an address, the lost cellular phone carries control information including a request code and a password code for processing personal information stored in the lost cellular phone. Transmitting through a wireless data channel to a telephone; And a program for executing the third step of receiving the control information, transmitting the response according to the received, and processing the personal information stored in the memory according to the request. Provide a record carrier.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a system configuration diagram to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 11, a customer support center, 12 a mobile communication network, 13 an IP network, and 14 a multimedia messaging service (MMS) center are shown.

The customer support center 11 is a place in charge of processing according to additional service subscription and lost theft of a mobile subscriber, a server for enabling service processing through the Internet, and a service for enabling service processing through a telephone. Voice guidance system (ARS).

The mobile communication network 12 is a conventional communication network, which includes a short message service center (SMSC) for short message service and a WAP gateway for wireless Internet service.

The multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) 14 can be connected to the mobile communication network 12 or the IP network 13 through a relay, and includes a relay, an MMS server, and an MMS message storage database.

The IP network 13 is a network capable of communicating through a general Internet protocol (IP), and allows customers to access the server of the customer support center 11 or the MMS center 14.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of protecting personal information stored in a lost cellular phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, a subscriber who lost a mobile phone visits the customer support center 11 and reports a lost mobile phone. At this time, the customer support center checks whether the subscriber who reports is a true mobile phone subscriber and how to handle the personal information stored in the mobile phone.

When the customer support center completes the confirmation of the subscriber, the customer support center sends a short message to the short message service center (SMSC) to process the personal information stored in the lost mobile phone. Accordingly, the short message service center transmits the short message to the lost cellular phone. In this case, the transmitted short message includes a service identifier and callback UL information indicating a type of the short message. That is, the mobile phone can check how to process the received short message through the service identifier. Meanwhile, for the present invention, a program capable of processing a short message and a control command message received in the mobile phone must be stored.

The mobile phone receiving the short message including the callback UEL checks the service identifier of the short message, and accordingly, the program is automatically executed and automatically connected to the specific server using the callback UEL. At this time, the mobile phone can transmit its location information (cell identification information) to the server.

When the lost cellular phone is automatically connected to the server, the server transmits control information for processing personal information to the cellular phone according to the processing request requested by the subscriber. In this case, the control information is encrypted information, and then encrypted using personal information such as a social security number of the subscriber so that the subscriber can reuse the lost mobile phone.

When the cellular phone receives the control information from the server, it transmits a response according to the reception and processes the personal information stored in the memory in accordance with the processing request included in the control information. The method of processing the personal information may be in the form of deleting from the memory area, moving to a non-readable memory, or blocking the output port as in the prior art.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of protecting personal information stored in a lost cellular phone according to another embodiment of the present invention. The embodiment of FIG. 3 differs from the embodiment of FIG. 2 in that the multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) does not process the server of the customer support center.

As described in FIG. 2, a subscriber who has lost a mobile phone visits a customer support center and reports a loss of the mobile phone. Accordingly, the customer support center sends a request for processing personal information stored in the lost cellular phone to the multimedia messaging service center.

When the multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) receives a message requesting processing of a lost mobile phone from a customer support center, the multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) requests the short message service center (SMSC) to transmit a short message to a lost mobile phone. Accordingly, the short message service center transmits the short message including the service identifier and the callback URL information to the lost cellular phone.

The mobile phone which receives the short message including the callback UEL checks the service identifier of the short message and, accordingly, the program is automatically executed and is automatically connected to the MMS server using the callback UEL. At this time, the mobile phone can transmit its own location information (cell identification information) to the MMS server.

When the lost cellular phone is automatically connected to the MMS server, the server of the MMS center transmits control information for processing personal information to the cellular phone according to the processing request requested by the subscriber. In this case, the control information is encrypted information, and then encrypted using personal information such as a social security number of the subscriber so that the subscriber can reuse the lost mobile phone.

When the cellular phone receives the control information from the MMS server, it transmits a response according to the reception and processes the personal information stored in the memory in accordance with a processing request included in the control information.

According to the present invention as described above, by transmitting a control command for processing personal information stored in the mobile phone through the wireless Internet without using a short message, the control command message can be transmitted at a time, and the result of the processing can be known with certainty. Can be. That is, in the case of using the short message, it is not possible to confirm whether the mobile phone is normally processed, but in the case of using the wireless Internet, the server processes the result of the mobile phone through the bidirectional communication.

1 is a network configuration to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a flowchart for processing privacy protection according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart for processing privacy protection according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (8)

A method for protecting personal information stored on a lost mobile phone, Transmitting a short message including a callback UEL to a lost mobile phone; When the lost cellular phone automatically accesses the callback UEL included in the short message as an address, the lost cellular phone carries control information including a request code and a password code for processing personal information stored in the lost cellular phone. Transmitting through a wireless data channel to a telephone; And And a third step of the lost cellular phone receiving the control information, transmitting a response according to the reception, and processing the personal information stored in the memory according to the request. . The method of claim 1, The first step, And a short message service center transmitting the short message at the request of a customer support center. The method of claim 1, The first step, A method for protecting personal information stored in a lost mobile phone, characterized by requesting the transmission of a short message from a multimedia messaging service center to a short message service center by a loss report from a customer support center. The method of claim 2 or 3, The short message in the first step includes a service identifier and a callback UEL indicating how to process the short message received in the mobile phone, the personal information stored in the lost mobile phone. The method of claim 4, wherein The mobile phone receiving the short message checks the service identifier, and then automatically runs a program to automatically connect with the callback URL as an address. The method of claim 5, And a mobile phone receiving the short message accessing the callback UEL to notify the current location information of the mobile phone. The method of claim 4, wherein The encryption code of the second step is generated using the customer's personal information to enable decryption by the customer when the lost mobile phone is found, the personal information stored in the lost mobile phone. On the computer, Transmitting a short message including a callback UEL to a lost mobile phone; When the lost cellular phone automatically accesses the callback UEL included in the short message as an address, the lost cellular phone carries control information including a request code and a password code for processing personal information stored in the lost cellular phone. Transmitting through a wireless data channel to a telephone; And A computer readable record having a program for executing the third step of receiving the control information, transmitting the response according to the reception, and processing the personal information stored in the memory according to the request; media.