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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2014
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Robert Skog, Hässelby, SE;

Michael Huber, Täby, SE;

Johan Kölhi, Vaxholm, SE;

Andreas Ljunggren, Vällingby, SE;

Bjorn Stromberg, Stockholm, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 48/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/003 (2013.01); H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 48/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, in a user equipment device, for managing use of applications installed on the user equipment device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a request from a user to launch an application, checking whether the user equipment device is roaming, and, if the user equipment device is roaming, consulting a user roaming profile and preventing launch of the application if the user roaming profile indicates that launch of the application is not permitted while roaming. Also disclosed are a computer program product for carrying out the above method and a user equipment device configured to carry out the above method.


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