Staging a mobile device with a battery of the mobile device

• US 10,091,339 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Suresh, Raj V. A., Angadi, Sateesh Veerabhadrappa
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, William
• Application Number:
  US14/024,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20150072741A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,847 Days
• Field of Search: 455572
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2010/4278 Systems for data transfer from batteries, e.g. transfer of battery parameters to a controller, data transferred between battery controller and main controller
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/30 Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/033 of the user plane, e.g. user's traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A system configures a mobile device. The system includes a battery and a mobile device. The battery includes at least one power storage cell and a memory arrangement, the memory arrangement storing staging profile data, the staging profile data including configuration data. The mobile device is configured to be coupled to the battery, the mobile device being powered by the at least one power storage cell, the mobile device receiving the staging profile data from the memory arrangement, the mobile device being automatically configured for communication with a communication network as a function of the configuration data.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a battery including at least one power storage cell, a battery processor, and a memory arrangement, the memory arrangement storing staging profile data, the staging profile data including configuration data for configuring predetermined types of mobile devices for network communication, wherein a mechanical shape of the battery is tailored for use with a specific type of mobile device having a corresponding mechanical recess, and the staging profile data corresponds to specifications for a predetermined type of mobile device; and

a mobile device configured to be coupled to the battery, the mobile device being powered by the at least one power storage cell, the mobile device receiving the staging profile data corresponding to its mobile device type from the memory arrangement after the battery has powered up the mobile device, whereupon the mobile device being automatically configured for communication with a communication network as a function of the configuration data retrieved from the memory arrangement,

wherein the battery processor is configured to encrypt the staging profile data stored in the memory arrangement of the battery, determine whether a setting, in the memory arrangement of the battery, indicating that the stored staging profile data can be erased is activated, and, when the setting is activated, transmit a request to the mobile device to determine whether the staging profile data has been received by the mobile device, and in response to the request, erase the staging profile data from the memory arrangement of the battery when the mobile device received the staging profile data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory arrangement of the battery is an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM).

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the battery includes a connector including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion configured to conduct a power signal from the at least one storage cell to the mobile device, the second portion configured to transmit the staging profile data as a data signal from the memory arrangement of the battery to the mobile device.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the mobile device includes a further connector configured to contact the connector, the further connector including a further first portion and a further second portion, the further first portion configured to couple to the first portion, the further second portion configured to couple to the second portion.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the staging profile data is received from a mobility services platform (MSP) server of the communication network that generates the staging profile data.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the battery processor is configured to determine whether the mobile device is authorized to receive the staging profile data, whereupon the battery processor determines the staging profile data to be delivered to the mobile device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the staging profile data corresponds to the mobile device as a function of identification data of the mobile device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the staging profile data includes a plurality of staging profile data, a user of the mobile device selecting one of the plurality of staging profile data for automatically configuring the mobile device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the battery processor is configured to determine whether the setting is activated by determining whether a predetermined bit is turned on in the memory arrangement of the battery.

10. A method of staging a mobile device for communication with a network, comprising:

providing a battery with a mechanical shape tailored for use with a specific type of mobile device having a corresponding mechanical recess;

storing staging profile data corresponding to specifications for the specific type of mobile device in a memory arrangement of a battery, the battery further including at least one power storage cell, the staging profile data including configuration data for configuring the specific type of mobile device for network communication;

encrypting, by a battery processor, the staging profile data stored in the memory arrangement of the battery;

coupling the battery to the mobile device for the mobile device to be powered by the at least one power storage cell;

after coupling and powering up the mobile device by the power storage cell,

transmitting the staging profile data for that specific type of mobile device from the memory arrangement of the battery to the mobile device;

determining whether a setting, in the memory arrangement of the battery, indicating that the stored staging profile data can be erased is activated;

when the setting is activated, transmitting a request to the mobile device to determine whether the staging profile data has been received by the mobile device;

in response to the request, erasing the staging profile data from the memory arrangement of the battery when the mobile device received the staging profile data; and

automatically configuring the mobile device for communication with a communication network as a function of the configuration data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the memory arrangement of the battery is an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM).

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

conducting a power signal from a first portion of a connector of the battery from the at least one storage cell to the mobile device; and

transmitting the staging profile data as a data signal from a second portion of the connector of the battery from the memory arrangement of the battery to the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

coupling the first portion of the connector of the battery to a further first portion of a further connector of the mobile device; and

coupling the second portion of the connector of the battery to a further second portion of the further connector of the mobile device.

14. The method of claim 10, the staging profile data is received from a mobility services platform (MSP) server of the communication network that generates the staging profile data.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining, by the processor of the battery, whether the mobile device is authorized to receive the staging profile data, whereupon determining, by the battery processor, the staging profile data to be delivered to the mobile device.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the staging profile data corresponds to the mobile device as a function of identification data of the mobile device.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a selection the staging profile data for automatically configuring the mobile device, the staging profile data being one of a plurality of staging profile data stored in the memory arrangement of the battery.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein determining whether the setting is activated further comprises determining whether a predetermined bit is turned on in the memory arrangement of the battery.

19. A removable battery for a mobile device, comprising:

at least one power storage cell configured to power the mobile device; and

a memory arrangement configured to store staging profile data for specific types of mobile devices, wherein a mechanical shape of the battery is tailored for use with a specific type of mobile device having a corresponding mechanical recess, and the staging profile data corresponds to specifications for the specific type of mobile device, the staging profile including configuration data for configuring the specific type of mobile device for network communication;

a battery processor configured to encrypt the staging profile data stored in the memory arrangement of the battery, determine whether a setting, in the memory arrangement of the battery, indicating that the stored staging profile data can be erased is activated, and, when the setting is activated, transmit a request to the specific type of mobile device to determine whether the staging profile data has been received by the specific type of mobile device, and in response to the request, erase the staging profile data from the memory arrangement of the battery when the specific type of mobile device received the staging profile data; and

a connector including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of the connector configured to conduct a power signal from the at least one power storage cell to the mobile device, the second portion of the connector configured to transmit the staging profile data corresponding to the mobile device type as a data signal from the memory arrangement to the mobile device, wherein after the battery has powered up the mobile device the staging profile data being retrieved from the memory arrangement to automatically configure the mobile device for communication with a communication network as a function of the configuration data.

20. The battery of claim 19, wherein the battery processor is configured to determine whether the setting is activated by determining whether a predetermined bit is turned on in the memory arrangement of the battery.