Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Thomas Michael McGurl

Michelle Felt

Sankar Shanmugam

Nagaraju Manchiraju

Shankar Arumugavelu

A wireless communication device may include logic configured to receive a voice request via a microphone; convert the received voice request into a text request; and send the text request to a results processing system. The logic may receive information corresponding to one or more cards from the results processing system, wherein a particular one of the one or more cards is associated with a category associated with the voice request and display a card or series of cards, wherein the cards includes a list of items associated with a category or wherein the cards are identified as relevant by the user while making the selection.

Advanced user interface for voice search and results display

An exemplary mobile device activation system may receive, by way of a mobile device not currently activated on a mobile network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile device on the mobile network, authenticate the mobile device to a user account associated with the mobile network, establish an activation session with the authenticated mobile device, receive, during the activation session and by way of the authenticated mobile device, user input indicating a user-selected activation parameter for the authenticated mobile device, and activate the authenticated mobile device on the mobile network based on the user-selected activation parameter for the authenticated mobile device.

Mobile wireless communication device activation systems and methods

An exemplary mobile device activation system may receive, by way of a mobile device not currently activated on a mobile network, a request to initiate an activation process to activate the mobile device on the mobile network, authenticate the mobile device to a user account associated with the mobile network, establish an activation session between the authenticated mobile device and the user account, provide, during the activation session, an interactive activation flow by way of the authenticated mobile device, and activate the mobile device on the mobile network based on user interaction with the interactive activation flow by way of the mobile device.

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Red Bank, NJ, United States of America

Thomas Michael McGurl