Controller and method of controlling multiple identities of a mobile device

摘要

A method can include detecting at a mobile device controller a communication from a sender to a recipient. One of the sender or the recipient is a mobile device that is registered to operate with a first identity in a mobile network of a service provider and is registered to operate with a second identity in a private network. The method can include determining which identity of the mobile device to employ in response to detecting the communication based on information associated with the communication. The communication can be directed to the recipient using the determined identity.

主权项

1. A mobile device controller operating in a communication system, the mobile device controller comprising:
a communication detector configured to detect a communication to or from each of a plurality of mobile devices, each of the mobile devices being configured to operate in at least a respective mobile network and a private enterprise network, each mobile device having a personal identity assigned by its respective mobile network and an enterprise identity assigned by its respective enterprise network; memory configured store mobile data representing at least one of contacts, communication history and messages for each of the plurality of mobile devices; a mobile identity selector configured to determine which of the personal identity or the enterprise identity of each of the plurality of mobile devices to use for each communication detected by the communication detector based on information associated with each detected communication; logic configured to tag the mobile data for a given communication as personal mobile data associated with a given mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices in response to the mobile identity selector determining to use the personal identity of the given mobile device for the given communication and configured to tag the mobile data for the given communication as enterprise mobile data in response to the mobile identity selector determining to use the enterprise identity of the given mobile device for the given communication; and a security module configured to enable access by an authorized enterprise user to records stored in each of the plurality of mobile devices associated with the enterprise identity, wherein in response to a user input by the authorized enterprise user, the security module to send a command to remove records that have been tagged with the enterprise identity from at least the given mobile device while leaving information that is not tagged with any identity or has been tagged with the personal identity to remain unaffected in each of the plurality of mobile devices.