Providing Network Credentials
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorJohn Redford
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Abstract
A method for providing a communication device with credentials to enable it to access communication resources provided by a network operator, the method comprising storing, on the communication device, an indication of (i) an identity associated with the communication device; and (ii) an identity associated with a provisioning agent, transmitting, from the communication device to a communication network, a registration request that identifies the communication device and the provisioning agent, the provisioning agent providing, in response to the registration request, credentials to enable the communication device to access communication resources provided by a network operator and transmitting said credentials from the communication network to the communication device.
Claims20
A method for providing a communication device with network credentials to enable it to access communication resources provided by a network operator, the method comprising:
- storing, on the communication device, an indication of (i) an identity associated with the communication device;
- and (ii) an identity associated with a provisioning agent;
- transmitting, from the communication device to a communication network, a registration request that identifies the communication device and the provisioning agent;
- the provisioning agent providing, in response to the registration request, network credentials to enable the communication device to access communication resources provided by a network operator;
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- transmitting said network credentials from the communication network to the communication device.
A communication device comprising:
- a memory storing an indication of (i) an identity associated with the communication device;
- and (ii) an identity associated with a provisioning agent;
- a communication unit configured to transmit, to a communication network, a registration request that identifies the communication device and the provisioning agent;
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- a provisioning unit configured to store network credentials received from the communication network in response to the registration request and thereafter use said network credentials to access communication resources of a network operator associated with those network credentials.
A provisioning agent for providing a communication device with network credentials to enable it to access communication resources provided by a network operator, the provisioning agent comprising:
- a client interface configured to receive, from a client associated with one or more communication devices, an indication of one or more network operators from which those communication devices are to be able to access communication resources;
- a database configured to associate each of the communication devices with an indication of the one or more network operators from which each communication device is able to access communication resources;
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- a provisioning unit configured to provide network credentials for installing on one or more of the communication devices so as to enable those communication devices to access communication resources from the network operators with which they are associated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.