SMARTPHONE OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC EVALUATION AND DIAGNOSTICS

摘要

Methods and implementations of providing device upgrade notifications and determining device upgrade eligibility and device trade-in values are described herein. These techniques include operations to determine and obtain an upgrade status of a device (and a device's contract status with a service provider), and determine and obtain characteristics of the device. The upgrade status may be displayed in connection with software app or widget. Other techniques for evaluating the condition and operating status of the smartphone and the subsystems of the smartphone (such as a display, processing, memory, battery, or other hardware subsystem) that affect the upgrade status of a device and a trade-in value are disclosed.

主权项

1. A method, performed by a wireless network computing device, the method implemented by electronic operations performed with a processor and a memory of the wireless network computing device, the electronic operations comprising:
receiving service provider account information from a wireless network service provider for the wireless network computing device, the service provider account information relating to a user account for the wireless network computing device that is maintained by the wireless network service provider, wherein the service provider account information indicates an upgrade status of the wireless network computing device for the user account; performing a diagnostic evaluation on a hardware subsystem of the wireless network computing device, to produce diagnostic information that indicates an operating condition of the hardware subsystem of the wireless network computing device; communicating the service provider account information and the diagnostic information to a remote information service; receiving promotional information from the remote information service in response to the communicating of the service provider account information and the diagnostic information, wherein the promotional information is generated by the remote information service based on the service provider account information and the diagnostic information; and outputting the promotional information received from the remote information service with the wireless network computing device.