发明名称 Service models for roaming mobile device
摘要 A method for providing cellular access to a mobile device when the mobile device is out of a home network operated by a home wireless service provider that has no pre-arranged roaming agreements with any foreign wireless service provider in a location of the mobile device. The method includes implementing an intelligent Mobile Device Access Network Manager (iMDANM) application on a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC). The iMDANM application being configured to allow a foreign wireless service provider to lease a portion of the UICC from the home wireless service provider to provision service credentials to the leased portion of the UICC, thereby providing the mobile device access to a foreign network operated by the foreign wireless service provider.
申请公布号 US9258708(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.02.09
申请号 US201414176049 申请日期 2014.02.08
申请人 AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. 发明人 Fan James;Chen David Feng-Lin;Kuo Richard
分类号 H04W4/00;H04M1/66;H04M1/68;H04M3/16;H04W12/06;H04M15/00;H04W4/24;H04W12/04;H04W8/20;H04W12/08;H04L29/06;H04W8/12 主分类号 H04W4/00
代理机构 Hartman & Citrin LLC 代理人 Hartman & Citrin LLC
主权项 1. A method comprising: obtaining, by a negotiation server, information indicative of foreign networks available at a location of a mobile device, wherein the foreign networks are not roaming partners of a home wireless service provider that provides cellular access to the mobile device, wherein a home network operated by the home wireless service provider is not accessible at the location of the mobile device, and wherein the negotiation server is a third party server that is not affiliated with any of the foreign networks; receiving, by the negotiation server, subscriber credentials from the mobile device to authenticate the mobile device for a lease agreement for providing cellular access to the mobile device; selecting, by the negotiation server, a foreign network among the foreign networks available at the location of the mobile device; and negotiating, by the negotiation server, the lease agreement between the home wireless service provider and a foreign wireless service provider of the foreign network to lease a portion of a universal integrated circuit card of the mobile device, provided by the home wireless service provider, to the foreign wireless service provider for provisioning service credentials to provide the mobile device with cellular access to the foreign network operated by the foreign wireless service provider, wherein the subscriber credentials include a lease duration and charging policies between the home wireless service provider and the foreign wireless service provider of the foreign network.
地址 Atlanta GA US