Blackberry Corporation

2236008 Ontario Limited

Research in Motion Corporation

Kevin Paul Fernandes

Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid

Peter Steven Pieda

Sivakumar Nagarajan

Tomasz Buczek

Alberto Daniel Zubiri

Pierre Pierre Blais

Barry Fraser Yerxa

Mark De Abreu

David James Byrne

Graham Pancio

Srdan Dikic

Thomas Leonard Plestid

Mark David De Abreu

A method at a user equipment to facilitate activation and splitting of data billing between at least two parties, the method including starting, at the user equipment, a virtual subscriber identity module platform ('VSP') service on the user equipment; verifying VSP configuration information with a network server; upon verification, starting a data networking access point name ('APN') based on the configuration information on the user equipment; and setting a status indicator on the user equipment to indicate the VSP service is enabled.

Method and system for dynamic cellular networking activation for virtual SIM service

A method at a user equipment to verify enablement of data billing splitting using a virtual subscriber identity module platform ('VSP') service, the method including receiving a credential at the user equipment, the credential including an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) from a physical universal integrated circuit card (UICC) subscriber identity module (SIM) application; storing the credential on the user equipment; checking, at a VSP service module on the user equipment, whether the credential matches an IMSI of a UICC currently inserted into the user equipment; if the checking determines a match, enabling the data billing splitting; and if the checking determines a mismatch, preventing enablement of the data billing splitting.

Method and apparatus for virtual SIM service activation and deactivation via subscription tracking

A communications system may include a plurality of electronic devices having respective different device types and each configured to wirelessly communicate via a plurality of different wireless communications formats. The system may also include a mobile wireless communications device including a plurality of application modules associated with respective electronic device types and configured to communicate via a first one of the wireless communications formats. The mobile wireless communications device may further include a control module configured to establish an initial wireless communications link with a given electronic device using a second one of the wireless communications formats, determine a respective device type for the given electronic device based upon the established initial wireless communications link, and cause a respective application module to establish a subsequent wireless communications link with the given electronic device using the second wireless communications format based upon the determined respective device type.

Communications system providing mobile wireless communications device application module associations for respective wireless communications formats and related methods

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