Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

John Charles Powell

Barry F Hoffner

Xuming Chen

Ho Yin Cheuk

Imtiyaz Shaikh

Phillip Andrew Ritter

Javier Alejandro Ferro

Sergei Karpov

Lindsay Notwell

Matthew M Laden

Edward DeMaria

A first device may receive a device identifier and associated data usage identifiers. The associated data usage identifiers may be associated with data used to provision services via a second device. The first device may identify account identifiers associated with the device identifier. The account identifiers may be associated with the services. The first device may associate the data usage identifiers with the account identifiers. The first device may determine information indicating an amount of data used to cause the first device to perform an action. The first device may perform the action based on the information.

Segmenting data usage of a device to associate the data usage with an account

A method including receiving a request for a service or an application from a user device associated with a customer; determining a type of service or a type of application; providing the service or the application; performing real-time tracking of the customer's usage of the service or the application based on the type of service or the type of application; generating one or more recommendations pertaining to the service or the application based on the real-time tracking; and sending the one or more recommendations to the customer via the user device.

Recommendations based on real-time usage information

A method including receiving a network access request that includes an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) stored by a smart card associated with a user device; determining whether self-subscription to a service plan or reactivation of a suspended service plan is permitted based on self-activation data, wherein the self-activation data includes a mapping between IMSIs and data that indicates a granting or a denying of network access; selecting network access rights based on the self-activation data when it is determined that self-subscription to the service plan or reactivation of the suspended service plan is permitted; generating a temporary user profile based on the selected network access rights; and providing limited network access to the user device, wherein the limited network access permits a user to self-subscribe to the service plan or reactivate the suspended service plan.

Self-subscription and self-reactivation to a network

A method and system for updating a preferred roaming list in a mobile communications device includes: (1) a network programmed to send a message to a mobile communication device; and (2) a voice prompting unit configured to prompt a subscriber of a wireless carrier to enter data via the mobile communications device to thereby initiate a change in a preferred roaming list of the mobile communications device. In a preferred, exemplary embodiment, the SMS message includes text that requests the subscriber call the voice prompting unit.

Method and system for initiating change in a preferred roaming list

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