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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2018
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Paul Lemchak, Wayne, NJ (US);
Bindu Balan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Dale M. Gibson, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Chaoying Zhu, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Kobie Thakar, Pelham, NY (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide for receiving a request to provision a trial service to a user device, wherein the trial service includes providing a premium service to the user device during a trial time period; identifying a class of service provided to the user device, wherein the request is denied when the premium service is provided to the user device; determining whether the user device is eligible to receive the premium service; determining, when the user device is eligible to receive the premium service, whether the user device is eligible to receive the trial service; and provisioning, based on determining that the user device is eligible to receive the trial service, the trial service to the user device.