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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2019
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Hamza Syed, Bothell, WA (US);
Nilesh Ranjan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anjani Deepthi Nandigam, Redmond, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described herein for authenticating a subscriber when activating user equipment and monitoring user equipment state. During the activation process, one or more using unique authentication questions can be presented to the subscriber in a customer validation screen. Individual subscribers can compose the authentication questions and corresponding answers during purchase such that the purchase order includes at least one device identifier corresponding to the user equipment associated with a purchase order. Upon authentication, one or more functionalities or features of the user equipment can be enabled. Additionally, billing and provisioning systems can be implemented as well as real-time or near real-time subscriber identity module (SIM) provisioning. The status of the user equipment can be transmitted to a telecommunications network provided by a telecommunications service provider on a scheduled basis in order to monitor the user equipment state and compliance.