At&t Mobility II LLC

Dinh C Tat

Richard A Layendecker

Michael Edward Prise

Wen-Ping Ying

Bonnie L Beeman

Zlata Koro

Rebecca L Twigg

A communication arrangement includes a Short Message Service Center (SMS-SC), a permissions facility (such as a customer care facility) to associate permissions and service requests, and a network element configured to receive a Short Message Service message via the SMS-SC. The network element extracts a device identifier from the message, applies the device identifier to locate device status information, and interacts with the facility to determine permissions to apply to service requests originating from the device.

Identifying a device to a network

An arrangement includes an input to receive DTMF tones, logic to convert the DTMF tones to SMPP protocol, and an output to provide the SMPP protocol.

Network protocol converter

A subscriber identity module includes at least one processor and logic that, when applied to the processor(s), results in a terminal device providing a device identifier to the subscriber identity module. The subscriber identity module forms a message including the device identifier and causes the terminal device to communicate the message to a network.

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Dinh C Tat