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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
May. 29, 2015
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
2236008 Ontario Inc., Waterloo, CA;
Peter Steven Pieda, Ottawa, CA;
Sivakumar Nagarajan, Ottawa, CA;
Mark De Abreu, Ottawa, CA;
Barry Fraser Yerxa, Ottawa, CA;
Pierre Pierre Blais, Kanata, CA;
Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Ottawa, CA;
Kevin Paul Fernandes, Toronto, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA (US);
2236008 Ontario Inc., Waterloo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method at a user equipment to facilitate activation and splitting of data billing between at least two parties, the method including starting, at the user equipment, a virtual subscriber identity module platform ('VSP') service on the user equipment; verifying VSP configuration information with a network server; upon verification, starting a data networking access point name ('APN') based on the configuration information on the user equipment; and setting a status indicator on the user equipment to indicate the VSP service is enabled.