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Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2018
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Soo Bum Lee, San Diego, CA (US);

Gavin Bernard Horn, La Jolla, CA (US);

John Edward Smee, San Diego, CA (US);

Rajesh Pankaj, San Diego, CA (US);

Thomas Rouse, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/629 (2013.01); H04L 41/082 (2013.01); H04L 41/28 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04L 63/062 (2013.01); H04L 65/1016 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

One or more selectively activated features needed at a device to use a network service may be identified. Authorization information and feature activation key(s) associated with features that the device has been authorized to activate may be obtained at the device. The feature activation key(s) may be used to activate and/or maintain activation of the authorized features that match the selectively activated feature(s) needed to use the network service. An authorization server may obtain a request to activate one or more selectively activated features of a device. The authorization server may verify that the selectively activated feature(s) are authorized to be used at the device based on an authorization agreement obtained at the authorization server. The authorization server may send proof that the device is authorized to use the selectively activated feature(s) and may send feature activation key(s) based on the authorization agreement in response to the request.


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