Mobile telephone firewall and compliance enforcement system and method

摘要

Methods, systems, and software for mediating SMS messages, and especially type 0 SMS messages, in a wireless mobile communications device configured to send and receive data using a GSM protocol and including a subscriber identity module (“SIM”) including electronic hardware and computer software executed by the hardware such that the SIM is configured to send, receive, and process messages using a Short Message System (“SMS”) between the wireless mobile communications device and a communications network. One aspect includes a method for mediating SMS messages comprising: configuring electronic hardware on the wireless mobile communications device to implement a firewall on the wireless mobile communications device, the firewall configured to identify and optionally mediate infrastructure SMS messages.

主权项

1. A wireless mobile electronic communications device comprising:
electronic apparatus configured to send and receive signals using a GSM protocol; a subscriber identity module (“SIM”) device, said SIM including electronic hardware and computer software executed by said electronic hardware such that said SIM is configured to send, receive, and process messages using a Short Message System (“SMS”) between said wireless mobile electronic communications device and a communications network; and said SIM device is configured to control at least partly electronic hardware and computer software executed by said electronic hardware effective to provide a firewall, said firewall being deployed as a SIM application within said SIM device, said firewall being controlled by said SIM device, for said wireless mobile electronic communications device, and said firewall is configured to identify and mediate one or more infrastructure SMS messages sent and received by said device.