SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED AUTHORIZATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF OVER THE AIR PROVISIONING FOR A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE

According to the invention cellular telephones or other communications devices (102) may request provisioning of features or services (114) by applications, for instance applications received via over-the-air programming (OAP), via a remote authorization service (120). The requests by applications,...

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Main Authors SMITH, RONALD, R, LIN, JYH-HAN, LEE, WEI-HSING
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 01.07.2015
Subjects
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Summary:According to the invention cellular telephones or other communications devices (102) may request provisioning of features or services (114) by applications, for instance applications received via over-the-air programming (OAP), via a remote authorization service (120). The requests by applications, such as Java applications, for access to provisioning privileges may be intercepted, for instance, by a native layer (108) executing on the communications device (102). The native layer (108) may communication the provisioning request (114), along with information identifying the requesting application, to a remote authorization server (120). Provisioning requests may be for ring tone, game, long distance or other features or services. The authorization facility may compare the application identifier or other information against a list or table of applications authorized to access device-specific data or perform other authorization. A grant, denial, deferral or other determination may be communicated back to the device, to permit or deny provisioning accordingly.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20030814847