Unwired Planet, LLC

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Openwave Systems Inc.

Jon Witort

Sousso Kelouwani

Michel Levesque

Brian Roundtree

Pim Van Meurs

Torsten Zeppenfeld

Gordon Waddell

Tim Shelton

A system, apparatus, and method for controlling the operation of a service in a client device. The invention uses an existing protocol which is used for communications between an application resident in the device and a remote server to convey information about the service to the application. The information may be relevant to a service specific function, such as configuration or provisioning, or an activation or de-activation instruction, for example. The application receives the service related information, processes the information and then provides the information to the service via a notification channel. The service related information may be incorporated into a message sent from the remote server to the client device by using an element of the protocol, for example, by appending a text string to a header.

Method for activating and deactivating client-side services from a remote server

An application stored in a mobile device is provisioned using provisioning data received from remote data storage via a network. Provisioning data is obtained at no cost to a user of the mobile device. In some implementations, the provisioning data is received after the mobile device requests to establish a data channel with a data network. The data network is identified using a predetermined identifier that the network recognizes. If the network does not recognize the special identifier, no data channel is established. After a data channel is established, the mobile device requests provisioning data from the remote data storage. In some implementations, the mobile device receives a provisioning message through a predetermined port. The provisioning message either includes provisioning data or prompts the mobile device to obtain provisioning data.

No-cost mobile device messaging, such as for provisioning an application on a mobile device

Method for activating and deactivating client-side services from a distant server

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Jon Witort