System and method for secure over-the-air provisioning of a mobile station from a provisioning server via a traffic channel

A wireless network comprising:

• a plurality of base stations, each of said base stations capable of communicating with a plurality of mobile stations;
• and
• a provisioning system capable of provisioning unprovisioned ones of said plurality of mobile stations and preventing said unprovisioned mobile stations from accessing an Internet protocol (IP) data network through said wireless network, said provisioning system comprising:
• a provisioning controller capable of retrieving provisioning data from a provisioning server associated with said IP data network and causing a first one of said plurality of base stations to transmit said retrieved provisioning data to a first unprovisioned mobile station in a first traffic channel established between said first base station and said first unprovisioned mobile station, wherein said provisioning controller is capable of determining that said unprovisioned mobile station is requesting provisioning service and, in response to said determination, is capable of establishing a call connection via a public telecommunications network between said first base station and an operator station capable of initiating a provisioning operation that provisions said unprovisioned mobile station.

For use in a wireless network comprising a plurality of base stations, each of the base stations capable of communicating with a plurality of mobile stations, a method of provisioning unprovisioned ones of the plurality of mobile stations and preventing the unprovisioned mobile stations from accessing an Internet protocol (IP) data network through the wireless network, the method comprising the steps of:

• retrieving provisioning data from a provisioning server associated with the IP data network;
• causing a first one of the plurality of base stations to transmit the retrieved provisioning data to a first unprovisioned mobile station in a first traffic channel established between the first base station and the first unprovisioned mobile station;
• determining whether the unprovisioned mobile station is requesting provisioning service;
• and
• in response to a determination that the unprovisioned mobile station is requesting provisioning service, establishing a call connection via a public telecommunications network between the first base station and an operator station capable of initiating a provisioning operation that provisions the unprovisioned mobile station.