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US 9,420,496 B1Granted
Activation sequence using permission based connection to network
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorDhananjay Indurkar
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Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods and systems for establishing a network connection with a mobile communication device. A mobile device may comprise an activation application operable to detect network connection options. Additionally, the activation application may determine the quality of the connection options and attempt to establish a connection with the network via one or more of the connection options. The activation application may use the network connection to request and receive an activation payload, which may be used to complete the activation process. In some cases, the activation application may facilitate the input of credentials for one or more connection option.
Claims16
A mobile communication device comprising:
- a processor;
- a non-transitory memory;
- an activation application stored in the non-transitory memory that when executed by the processor, configures the processor to:
- prior to making a first attempt to complete an activation process to initially activate the mobile communication device, detect available connection options between the mobile communication device and a network;
- determine the quality of each of the detected available connection options;
- in response to determining the quality of each of the available connection options, make the first attempt to complete the activation process over the best quality connection option among the detected available connection options;
- in response to the first attempt being unsuccessful, make a second attempt to complete the activation process over the next best quality connection option among the detected available connection options;
- receive an activation payload from a provisioning server via at least one connection to the network over at least one of the detected available connection options to the network;
- and
- using the activation payload, complete the activation process on the mobile device via the at least one connection to the network over at least one of the detected available connection options to the network.
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A method for completing an activation process on a mobile communication device comprising:
- prior to making a first attempt to complete an activation process to initially activate a mobile communication device, detecting, by an activation application stored in a non-transitory memory of the mobile communication device and executable by a processor of the mobile communication device, available connection options between the mobile communication device and a network;
- determining, by the activation application, the quality of each of the detected available connection options;
- ranking, by the activation application, the detected available connection options according to quality;
- in response to determining the quality and the ranking of each of the detected available connection options, making, by the activation application, the first attempt to complete the activation process over the first ranked connection option among the detected available connection options;
- in response to the first attempt being unsuccessful, making, by the activation application, a second attempt to complete the activation process over the second ranked connection option among the detected available connection options;
- receiving, by the activation application, an activation payload via at least one connection to the network over at least one of the detected available connection options to the network;
- and
- using the activation payload, completing, by the activation application, the activation process via the at least one connection to the network over at least one of the detected available connection options.
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A method for completing an activation process on a mobile communication device comprising:
- prior to making a first attempt to complete an activation process to initially activate a mobile communication device, detecting, by an activation application stored in a non-transitory memory of the mobile communication device and executable by a processor of the mobile communication device, available connection options between the mobile communication device at a network;
- determining, by the activation application, the quality of each of the detected available connection options;
- in response to determining the quality of each of the detected available connection options, making, by the activation application, the first attempt to complete the activation process over the best quality connection option among the detected available connection options;
- detecting, by the activation application, a request for credentials from a connection corresponding to the best quality connection option;
- presenting an input screen to a user to input the credentials;
- in response to the credentials being correct, at least partially completing, by the activation application, the activation process over the best quality connection option among the detected available connection options;
- in response to the first attempt being unsuccessful, making, by the activation application, a second attempt to complete the activation process over the next best quality connection option among the detected available connection options;
- receiving, by the activation application, an activation payload via at least one connection with the network over at least one of the detected available connection options;
- and
- completing, by the activation application, the activation process via the at least one connection to the network over at least one of the detected available connection options, wherein the activation process is at least partially completed using the activation payload.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.