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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2009
Piotr Madej, Mississauga, CA;
Simon Howard, Toronto, CA;
Snezana Visnjic-obucina, Toronto, CA;
Levente Janosi, Dundas, CA;
Thomas Parry, Cambridge, CA;
Piotr Madej, Mississauga, CA;
Simon Howard, Toronto, CA;
Snezana Visnjic-Obucina, Toronto, CA;
Levente Janosi, Dundas, CA;
Thomas Parry, Cambridge, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
There is disclosed a system and method for provisioning mobile communication device upgrades. In an embodiment, the method comprises: providing an automated web service device management interface ('WSDMI') accessible to one or more carriers; adapting a supplier provisioning system to receive via the WSDMI one or more upgrade requests from the one or more carriers; adapting the supplier provisioning system to respond via the WSDMI to the one or more upgrade requests from the one or more carriers; and adapting the supplier provisioning system to execute one or more device upgrades on one or more supplier provisioning system connected devices. In an embodiment, the receiving and responding via the WSDMI is based on SOAP encoded XML messages.