Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Dale M Gibson

Bindu Balan

Chaoying Zhu

Kobie Thakar

Paul Lemchak

Thuha T Cung

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide for receiving a request to provision a trial service to a user device, wherein the trial service includes providing a premium service to the user device during a trial time period; identifying a class of service provided to the user device, wherein the request is denied when the premium service is provided to the user device; determining whether the user device is eligible to receive the premium service; determining, when the user device is eligible to receive the premium service, whether the user device is eligible to receive the trial service; and provisioning, based on determining that the user device is eligible to receive the trial service, the trial service to the user device.

Provisioning a trial service to a mobile device

A request to provision a trial service to a user device is received, and the trial service relates to offering a service to the user device during a trial time period. The request is confirmed as originating from the user device by forwarding a confirmation code to the user device, and receiving the confirmation code from the user device. Data regarding the user device is obtained and used to determine whether the user device is eligible to receive the trial service. For example, eligibility of the user device to receive the trial service may be determined based on a service provided to the user device before the request is received, and based on whether the user device has previously received the trial service during a particular time period. When the user device is eligible to receive the trial service, the trial service is provisioned to the user device.

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Dale M Gibson