Methods, systems and applications for porting telephone numbers on wireless devices

A non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for a porting application for porting a telephone number to a wireless phone, which when executed, causes a processor of the wireless phone to execute the instructions, the computer readable storage medium including the porting application, and the porting application comprising:

• instructions for operating a mobile electronic communication device with a display;
• instructions for displaying a user interface on the display for initiating porting of the telephone number that includes a request for user information;
• instructions for receiving the user information associated with the telephone number via the user interface;
• instructions for requesting a service provider associated with the telephone number to port the telephone number to the mobile electronic communication device;
• instructions for receiving information on whether the telephone number is portable or not based on at least a geographic area being associated with the telephone number and the mobile electronic communication device;
• instructions for displaying information on the user interface of the display indicating whether the telephone number is portable or not;
• instructions for providing a temporary phone number while the telephone number is being ported,
• instructions for transmitting the user information from the mobile electronic communication device along with a request to port the telephone number to the mobile electronic communication device;
• instructions for displaying a real-time status of the porting process on the user interface of the display after the transmitting, the real-time status comprising at least one of the following:
• a real-time percentage of completion of the porting process and a real-time remaining amount of time until completion of the porting process;
• instructions for receiving confirmation that the telephone number has been ported;
• and
• instructions for updating the mobile electronic communication device to utilize the telephone number,
• wherein the user interface displays a prompt for inputting the telephone number;
• wherein the user interface displays a prompt for inputting a digital signature;
• wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the user information from the mobile electronic communication device on a provisioning channel;
• wherein the provisioning channel comprises at least one of the following:
• an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel, a Short Message Service (SMS) messaging channel and a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) messaging channel;
• and
• wherein the user information is selected from at least one of the following:
• customer name, customer billing address, service provider, account number, telephone number, email address, password and combinations thereof.