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US 10,834,577 B2Granted
Service offer set publishing to device agent with on-device service selection
AssigneeHeadwater Research LLC
InventorsGregory G. Raleigh, James Lavine, Alireza Raissinia
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for publishing a service offer set to a device agent on an end-user device and for on-device selection of a service. In some embodiments, a network system publishes a service offer set to an end-user device over a wireless access network, receives an offer set user selection from the end-user device, and provisions one or more network functions based on the offer set user selection.
Claims16
A network system, comprising:
- a service design center database to store a service offer set comprising a plurality of wireless service plans and a corresponding plurality of service plan selection options for display to an end-user device user;
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- one or more network elements comprising a notification and offer set gateway to:
- obtain the service offer set, and
- for each of a plurality of wireless end-user devices,
- authenticate a secure credential for the wireless end-user device in a process to verify the presence and configuration of a service processor on the device, and for each given one of the plurality of wireless end-user devices for which the presence and configuration of a service processor on the given wireless end-user device is verified,
- publish the service plan selection options from the service offer set to the given wireless end-user device over a wireless access network, and upon receipt and acceptance of a device-selected one of the service plan selection options from the given wireless end-user device, provision one or more network functions in real-time or near-real-time based on the device-selected service plan selection option to provide wireless network access for the service plan corresponding to the device-selected service plan selection option.
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