| 摘要 |
To reduce or avoid multiple calls for authentication, during mobile device provisioning for broadband connectivity which might otherwise be caused by add-ons associated with a browser, a provisioning gateway or server system maintains a database of records of source addresses and associated mobile numbers. The records may also indicate time of last request from each address. In response to a new request, the system determines if there is a record for the source address. If there is a record, and in our example, if the record indicates that time since the last prior request is less than a threshold value, then the system continues provisioning processing for the device but without any communication with an authentication system. However, if there is no record or if the last request from a source address is older than the threshold, then the system communicates with the authentication system to obtain the directory number for the mobile device. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method, comprising steps of:
receiving a first http data communication request from a client browser program running on a user's data device, via a mobile device coupled to the data device, in a wireless mobile communication network; based upon a determination via an authentication, authorization, and accounting system that the mobile device is not subscribed to a broadband connectivity service of the wireless mobile communication network, directing the first http data communication request to a system hosting a provisioning server program, for a provisioning website of a carrier operating the mobile communication network; in response to the first request, communicating from the system hosting the provisioning server program to the authentication, authorization, and accounting system of the wireless mobile communication network to obtain a mobile number assigned to the mobile device; storing a record containing the mobile number assigned to the mobile device and a data communication address used by the mobile device during communication with the system hosting the provisioning server program; initiating a subscribing process, to subscribe the mobile device for broadband connectivity service on the wireless mobile communication network, the subscribing process including sending one or more web pages from the system hosting the provisioning server program to the mobile device and obtaining user information responsive to the one or more web pages for subscribing to the broadband connectivity service for the mobile device; subsequently receiving a second http data communication request from the client browser program running on the data device in the wireless mobile communication network, prior to the completion of the initiated subscribing process to subscribe the mobile device for the broadband connectivity service; based upon a determination via the authentication, authorization, and accounting system that the mobile device is not yet subscribed to the broadband connectivity service of the wireless mobile communication service, directing the second http data communication request to the system hosting the provisioning server program; and upon determining from the stored record that the second http data communication request received prior to the completion of the initiated subscribing process uses the data communication address used by the mobile device as a source address, continuing the subscribing process initiated in response to the first http data communication request, without again communicating from the system hosting the provisioning server program to the authentication, authorization, and accounting system of the wireless mobile communication network responsive to the second request. |
