US 9,794,786 B2Granted

Mobile wireless communication device activation systems and methods

AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

InventorsMichelle Felt, Thomas Michael McGurl, Sankar Shanmugam, Nagaraju Manchiraju, Shankar Arumugavelu

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Abstract

An exemplary mobile device activation system may receive, by way of a mobile device not currently activated on a mobile network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile device on the mobile network, authenticate the mobile device to a user account associated with the mobile network, establish an activation session between the authenticated mobile device and the user account, provide, during the activation session, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile device, and activate the mobile device on the mobile network based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the mobile device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a computer-implemented activation system and by way of a mobile wireless communication device not currently activated on a mobile wireless communication network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network;
authenticating, by the activation system, the mobile wireless communication device to a user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network;
establishing, by the activation system, an activation session between the authenticated mobile wireless communication device and the user account;
providing, by the activation system and during the activation session, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
and
activating, by the activation system, the authenticated mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network in association with the user account based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
wherein the authenticating of the mobile wireless communication device to the user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network comprises:
prompting a user of the mobile wireless communication device to provide login information for the user account;
receiving the login information for the user account;
and
verifying that the received login information for the user account matches login information on file for the user account.

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A method comprising:

receiving, by a computer-implemented activation system and by way of a mobile wireless communication device not currently activated on a mobile wireless communication network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network;
authenticating, by the activation system, the mobile wireless communication device to a user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network;
establishing, by the activation system, an activation session between the authenticated mobile wireless communication device and the user account;
providing, by the activation system and during the activation session, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
and
activating, by the activation system, the authenticated mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network in association with the user account based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
wherein the authenticating of the mobile wireless communication device to the user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network comprises:
prompting a user of the mobile wireless communication device to scan an activation code associated with a purchase of the mobile wireless communication device;
receiving an image of the activation code;
identifying, from the received image of the activation code, a user account identifier;
and
identifying the user account by determining that the user account identifier identified from the received image matches a user account identifier on file for the user account.

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A method comprising:

receiving, by a computer-implemented activation system and by way of a mobile wireless communication device not currently activated on a mobile wireless communication network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network;
authenticating, by the activation system, the mobile wireless communication device to a user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network;
establishing, by the activation system, an activation session between the authenticated mobile wireless communication device and the user account;
providing, by the activation system and during the activation session, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
and
activating, by the activation system, the authenticated mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network in association with the user account based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
wherein the providing of the interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device comprises:
providing a set of graphical user interface views for display by the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
and
receiving user input by way of the graphical user interface views, the user input representative of the user interaction with the interactive activation flow and one or more activation parameters selected by a user of the mobile wireless communication device.

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A system comprising:

at least one physical computing device that:
receives, by way of a mobile wireless communication device not currently activated on a mobile wireless communication network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network;
authenticates the mobile wireless communication device to a user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network;
establishes an activation session between the authenticated mobile wireless communication device and the user account;
provides, during the activation session, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
and
activates the authenticated mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network in association with the user account based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
wherein the at least one physical computing device authenticates the mobile wireless communication device to the user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network by:
prompting a user of the mobile wireless communication device to provide login information for the user account;
receiving the login information for the user account;
and
verifying that the received login information for the user account matches login information on file for the user account.

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A system comprising:

a client application installed on a mobile wireless communication device not activated on a mobile wireless communication network, the client application configured to direct the mobile wireless communication device to request an activation of the mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network;
and
an activation server system that includes at least one physical computing device, is communicatively coupled to the mobile wireless communication device, and that:
receives, from the mobile wireless communication device not activated on the mobile wireless communication network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network;
authenticates the mobile wireless communication device to a user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network;
establishes an activation session between the authenticated mobile wireless communication device and the user account;
provides, during the activation session and based on the user account, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
and
activates the authenticated mobile wireless communication device on the mobile wireless communication network based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile wireless communication device;
wherein the activation server system authenticates the mobile wireless communication device to the user account associated with the mobile wireless communication network by:
prompting a user of the mobile wireless communication device to provide login information for the user account;
receiving the login information for the user account;
and
verifying that the received login information for the user account matches login information on file for the user account.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/864,836Filed 24 Sep 2015
Published: US 2017/0094508 A130 Mar 2017
Granted: 17 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04W 12/06
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: authentication
H04L 65/1069
Session management: session establishment or de-establishment
H04L 67/141
Session management: setup of application sessions
H04W 8/183
Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data:…