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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2017
Headwater Research Llc, Tyler, TX (US);
Gregory G. Raleigh, Woodside, CA (US);
Jose Tellado, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey Green, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James Lavine, Corte Madera, CA (US);
Russell Bertrand Carter, III, San Jose, CA (US);
Justin James, Poway, CA (US);
Laurent An Minh Nguyen, Los Altos, CA (US);
Headwater Research LLC, Tyler, TX (US);
Abstract
A master wireless device and a child wireless device execute respective device activation sequences. On the child wireless device, the activation sequence displays, on a display of the device, a non-textual image representing a unique child device credential. On the master wireless device, the activation sequence prompts a user to capture a digital picture of the child wireless device screen. The master wireless device presents its own credentials, along with information from the digital picture, to a service management system in a network, allowing the service management system to verify that the master wireless device is associated with a subscriber and is allowed to configure a child device, as well as verify the child device. Upon successful verification, the service management system activates the child wireless device to the subscriber account of the master wireless device.