Device ownership security on a network
AssigneeScenera Mobile Technologies, LLC
InventorEric C. Anderson
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Abstract
A method for device ownership security is disclosed. The method includes storing an ownership record on a mobile device identifying a home network for the mobile device. The method further includes connecting, by the mobile device, to a foreign network. The method also includes receiving, from the home network, a negative communication based on an indication that the mobile device is at least one of stolen and lost as a second portion of the transaction. The method still further includes ceasing a function of the mobile device in response to the negative acknowledgment.
Claims13
A method for establishing ownership of a mobile device, comprising;
- receiving electronically, from a mobile device, a device identifier for the mobile device by a network owned or controlled by a user of the mobile device
- determining by the network, based on the device identifier, whether the mobile device is owned by the network;
- transferring electronically, from the network to the mobile device, for storage on the mobile device, an ownership record identifying the network and the user in response to the network determining that the mobile device is not an owned device;
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- providing automatic access to the network by the mobile device in response to the network determining that the mobile device is owned by the network.
A network device for establishing ownership of a mobile device, the network device comprising:
- a processor, a memory, and a network interface configured to, together,:
- receive electronically, from a mobile device, a device identifier for the mobile device by a network owned or controlled by a user of the mobile device;
- determine by the network, based on the device identifier, whether the mobile device is owned by the network;
- transfer electronically, from the network to the mobile device, for storage on the mobile device, an ownership record identifying the network and the user in response to the network determining that the mobile device is not an owned device;
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- provide automatic access to the network by the mobile device in response to the network determining that the mobile device is owned by the network.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program, executable by a machine, for establishing ownership of a mobile device, the computer program comprising executable instructions for:
- receiving electronically, from a mobile device, a device identifier for the mobile device by a network owned or controlled by a user of the mobile device
- determining by the network, based on the device identifier, whether the mobile device is owned by the network;
- transferring electronically, from the network to the mobile device, for storage on the mobile device, an ownership record identifying the network and the user in response to the network determining that the mobile device is not an owned device;
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- providing automatic access to the network by the mobile device in response to the network determining that the mobile device is owned by the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.