Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rhapsody International, Inc.

Li-Kai Chang

Robert Paul St Pierre

David B Stanley

Anil Dhawan

Timothy L Bui

Jason S Hamilton

Navneet Mehta

Sanjeev Kaushik

Kelly Ann Grantham Gachet

John Anthony Larkin

Genevieve Gambardella

Jeff Watts

Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for provisioning a subscription service subscription to a user of a user device, the user device capable of alternatively communicating on a mobile telephone network and on a wireless data network. A request to subscribe the user to the subscription service may comprise a user device identifier and may be received from a mobile service provider system. A message to the user device may be initiated via the mobile telephone network. An access request may be received from the user, via the user device. Upon verifying that the access request was sent by a recipient of the message, the user may be provided with access to the subscription service.

Provisioning subscriptions to user devices

The innovation supports the ability to map alpha characters entered directly into the dialer application of a smartphone. These alpha characters can be entered via a smartphone keyboard (e.g., QWERTY keyboard) and converted to the appropriate digits as mapped to a conventional telephone keypad. The resultant numerical digits can be used to prompt a network call. Additionally, the innovation can be used during an active call to respond to prompts that traditionally require 12-key mappings. This innovation allows a user to both dial a number directly via a smartphone keyboard, and filter contacts by name, in a non-modal manner.

Alpha character support and translation in dialer

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Li-Kai Chang