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| 20090081996 | Apparatus and methods associated with open market handsets - communication device and dynamic source determination of provisioning information on a wireless communication device are disclosed. User Identity Modules (UIMs) are provisioned such that network-service applications resident on the wireless device are associated with a corresponding application profile within the UIM. Each network-service application has a corresponding network address identifier defined within the user profile. The network address associated with the identifier is used to establish a data session for the corresponding network service application. By providing for application-specific network addresses, service providers and/or network operators can differentiate between what services a user is accessing during a data session. In addition, the UIMs may be provisioned with priority category identifiers that allow the associated network-service application to be prioritized for data session establishment. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090082004 | APPARATUS AND METHODS OF OPEN MARKET HANDSET IDENTIFICATION - Methods, apparatus and systems are presented for automatically providing network operators with identification of open market wireless devices that are used in the operator's respective network. Present aspects accomplish such by retrieving device profile information in response to the network operator's removable module being associated with (i.e., inserted into) a wireless device and communicating the device profile information to the network operator or the like. This allows for the network operator or third party entity to track and/or monitor the type of wireless devices existing in their respective wireless network. In addition, the automated nature of the tracking obviates the need for the subscribers/users of the removable modules to manually or otherwise provide the device identification to the network operators. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090082029 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION NETWORK-SERVER DETERMINATION FOR REMOVABLE MODULE-BASED WIRELESS DEVICES - Methods, apparatus and systems are presented that enable a network operator to control the source for network services in open market devices by provisioning the network operator-issued removable modules with network service provisioning information associated with the operator and configuring the open market wireless devices such that the device looks to the removable module first for the network service provisioning information before looking to device storage for any other provisioning information related to the network service. In this regard, the user of the open market wireless device is still provided access to the network service even if the network operator does not provide the service or provide access to the service. Additionally, the described aspects methods, systems and apparatus provide the network operator with an additional level of dynamic control over the source for network services by providing for a network-side proxying feature that allows the network operator to proxy network service requests sent from the open market wireless devices to a designated third party network service provider based on criteria defined by the network operator. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100035595 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC SOURCE DETERMINATION OF PROVISIONING INFORMATION ON A PER-NETWORK SERVICE BASIS FOR OPEN MARKET WIRELESS DEVICES - Systems, apparatus and methods are described that provide for dynamic source determination of provisioning information on a per-network service basis for open market wireless devices. Specifically, systems, apparatus and methods provide for the open market wireless devices and/or the users of such devices to acquire provisioning information for network services in instances in which neither the removable module currently associated with the device or the non-removable memory of the open market wireless device store the provisioning information for the desired network service. In this regard, present aspects provide for a prompt, such as a user notification to presented on an output mechanism of the wireless device when the wireless determines first that the provisioning information is not stored on the removable module and, secondly, that the provisioning information is not stored on the non-removable data storage of the device. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100099406 | Method and Apparatus for Determining the Country Where a Mobile Device Has Acquired Service - An apparatus and method for identifying a serving country using at least one system specific parameter comprising extracting the at least one system specific parameter from a forward link signal; determining whether the at least one system specific parameter maps to a unique country; and identifying the serving country for a call. | 04-22-2010 |
