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US 2021/0281989 A1Published application
Data Connection Setting Application
AssigneeTracFone Wireless, Inc.
InventorSatish Ramprasad
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Abstract
A method for configuring access point network settings using a data connection setting application operating on a wireless device is disclosed. The data connection setting application is operable to accesses settings configuration and data from a memory and/or a SIM card, and compare it with wireless network requirements to determine whether the settings need to be reconfigured. Based on the determination, the data connection setting application can enable the display of instructions to a user and provide tools to fill in information required to reconfigure the wireless device according to wireless network requirements for the specific wireless device.
Claims20
A method of programming access point name settings using a data connection setting application implemented on a wireless device, comprising:
- accessing, at the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, specifications that comprise at least the access point name settings correlated to one or both of the wireless device and a wireless provider in response to at least one of the following:
- a SIM card has been replaced in the wireless device, the wireless device is powered on, or upon selection by a user;
- accessing wireless device settings from a memory of the wireless device using the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, the wireless device settings comprising at least access point name settings;
- determining, using the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, that the specifications and the accessed wireless device settings that comprise at least the access point name settings are not compatible by comparing the wireless device settings accessed to the specifications, the specifications being specific to the wireless device for a wireless network;
- generating, on a display of the wireless device using the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, instructions to a user to change wireless device settings of the wireless device that comprise at least the access point name settings when the wireless device settings are not compatible;
- receiving in the wireless device new wireless device settings that comprise at least the access point name settings;
- receiving, at the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, inputs from a user in response to the instructions on the display that comprises the new wireless device settings that comprise at least the access point name settings;
- configuring the wireless device with the data connection settings application operating on the wireless device with the new wireless device settings that comprise at least the access point name settings;
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- storing the new wireless device settings of the wireless device that comprise at least the access point name settings,
- wherein the inputs from a user include data associated with the access point name settings copied from a database of the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device.
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A wireless device comprising at least one processor in communication with at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
- access, at a data connection setting application operating on the wireless device and from a memory in the wireless device, specifications that comprise at least access point name settings correlated to one or both of the wireless device and a wireless provider in response to at least one of the following:
- a SIM card has been replaced in the wireless device, the wireless device is powered on, or upon selection by a user;
- access, using the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, wireless device settings from a memory of the wireless device using the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, the wireless device settings comprising at least access point name settings;
- determine, using the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, that the specifications and the accessed wireless device settings that comprise at least the access point name settings are not compatible by comparing the wireless device settings accessed to the specifications, the specifications being specific to the wireless device for a wireless network;
- generate, on a display of the wireless device and using the data connection setting application operating on the wireless device, an indication to a user to change wireless device settings of the wireless device that comprise at least the access point name settings when the wireless device settings are not compatible;
- receive an input, from a wireless device interface, by the user in response to the indication presented on the display;
- transfer the new wireless device settings that comprise at least the access point name settings stored in a memory in digital communication with the processor to configure the wireless device;
- receive in the wireless device new wireless device settings that comprise at least the access point name settings;
- configure the wireless device with the data connection settings application operating on the wireless device with the new wireless device settings that comprise at least the access point name settings;
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- store the new wireless device settings of the wireless device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.