Identifying a device to a network

• US 20050144236A1
• Filed: 01/22/2004
• Published: 06/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ying, Wen-Ping, Prise, Michael E., Tat, Dinh C.
• Granted Patent: US 9,026,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A communication arrangement includes a Short Message Service Center (SMS-SC), a permissions facility (such as a customer care facility) to associate permissions and service requests, and a network element configured to receive a Short Message Service message via the SMS-SC. The network element extracts a device identifier from the message, applies the device identifier to locate device status information, and interacts with the facility to determine permissions to apply to service requests originating from the device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving one of a Short Message Service, Enhanced Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, and SyncML message;

extracting a device identifier from the message; and

applying the device identifier to determine a device status.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting an International Mobile Equipment Identity from the message.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

setting network access permissions according to the device status for a device corresponding to the device identifier.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

applying the device identifier to a deny database to determine the device status.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the message via a Short Message Peer to Peer interface.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating the device status to a customer care facility.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting a subscriber identifier from the message;

applying the subscriber identifier to identify subscriber services; and

applying permissions for access to the subscriber services by the subscriber according to the device status.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

extracting at least one of an International Mobile Subscriber Identity and an Integrated Circuit Card ID from the message.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

applying the subscriber identifier to locate subscriber information.

10. A network element comprising:

logic to cause the processing of at least one of a Short Message Service, Enhanced Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, and SyncML message to extract a device identifier from the message, and to apply the device identifier to determine a device status; and

at least one processor to execute at least some of the logic.

11. The network element of claim 10, further comprising:

logic to cause the setting of network access permissions for the device according to the device status.

12. The network element of claim 10, further comprising:

logic to cause the extraction of a International Mobile Equipment Identity from the message.

13. The network element of claim 10, further comprising:

logic to cause the applying of the device identifier to a deny database to determine the device status.

14. The network element of claim 10, further comprising:

logic to cause the receiving of the message via a Short Message Peer to Peer interface.

15. The network element of claim 10, further comprising:

logic to cause the communicating of device status to a customer care facility.

16. The network element of claim 10, further comprising:

logic to cause the extracting of a subscriber identifier from the message, the applying of the subscriber identifier to identify subscriber services, and the applying of permissions to the subscriber services according to the device status.

17. The network element of claim 16, further comprising:

subscriber identifier is at least one of International Mobile Subscriber Identity and Integrated Circuit Card ID.

18. The network element of claim 16, further comprising:

logic to cause the applying of the device identifier to a deny database to determine the device status.

19. A communication arrangement comprising:

a Short Message Service Center (SMS-SC);

a permissions facility; and

a network element configured to receive a Short Message Service message via the SMS-SC, extract a device identifier from the message, apply the device identifier to locate device status information, and interact with the permissions facility to determine permissions to apply to service requests originating from the device.

20. The communication arrangement of claim 19, further comprising:

the network element further configured to extract a subscriber identifier from the message and apply the subscriber identifier to determine subscriber services.

21. The communication arrangement of claim 19, further comprising:

the network element further configured to extract an International Mobile Equipment Identity from the message.

22. The communication arrangement of claim 20, further comprising:

the network element further configured to extract at least one of International Mobile Subscriber Identity and Integrated Circuit Card ID from the message.

23. The communication arrangement of claim 19, further comprising:

the network element comprising a deny database, the deny database comprising device status information.