Provisioning Based on Application and Device Capability

• US 20120088540A1
• Filed: 10/07/2010
• Published: 04/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Smith, Christopher David, Parry, Thomas Owen, Carter, Jason Lee, Clarke, David, Omar, Salim Hayder, Alfano, Nicholas Patrick, Ferrazzini, Axel
• Granted Patent: US 8,958,780 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

A user equipment (UE) is disclosed comprising an agent configured to monitor and report UE configuration and capability information, wherein the UE is further configured to provide the UE configuration and capability information, and subsequently receive an application based on the configuration and capability information. Also disclosed is a network comprising a provisioning server configured to receive UE configuration and capability information, and subsequently provide an application based on the UE configuration and capability information. Also disclosed is a method comprising providing UE configuration and capability information from a UE, and receiving an application at the UE based on the configuration and capability information. Also disclosed is a method comprising receiving UE configuration and capability information at a provisioning server, and providing an application from the provisioning server based on the UE configuration and capability information.

Claims

1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

an agent configured to monitor and report UE configuration and capability information,

wherein the UE is further configured to subsequently receive an application based on the UE configuration and capability information.

2. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE configuration and capability information is sent by in a plurality of reports that comprise a plurality of Service Class Maps.

3. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE configuration and capability information is sent in a plurality of reports in a plurality of Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents.

4. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE configuration and capability information comprises software including libraries and applications that are installed on the UE.

5. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE configuration and capability information comprises hardware details including the UE'"'"'s available communications transport.

6. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE configuration and capability information comprises the UE'"'"'s operating system (OS) version and firmware information including device drivers.

7. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE configuration and capability information comprises the UE'"'"'s available services that are provided by a carrier and extensions to existing services.

8. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE configuration and capability information comprises changes to the UE'"'"'s user billing plan changes and access rights.

9. The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE determines to report the UE configuration and capability information on at least one of a periodic basis, a non-periodic basis, or upon a change to the UE configuration and capability information.

10. A network component comprising:

a provisioning server configured to receive user equipment (UE) configuration and capability information and provide an application based on the UE configuration and capability information.

11. The network component of claim 10, wherein the provisioning server comprises an agent that receives the UE configuration and capability information and an operation, management, and administration (OMA) device management server that analyzes the UE configuration and capability information and provisions accordingly the application.

12. The network component of claim 10, wherein the provisioning server comprises an agent that receives the UE configuration and capability information and a plurality of deployed service discovery systems that analyze the UE configuration and capability information and provision accordingly a plurality of services.

13. The network component of claim 10, wherein the provisioning server receives the UE configuration and capability information and provisions the application using a protocol for application discovery, service discovery, capability discovery, or combinations thereof.

14. The network component of claim 10, wherein the UE configuration and capability information is received in a plurality of reports that comprise a plurality of Service Class Maps.

15. The network component of claim 10, wherein the UE configuration and capability information is received in a plurality of reports in a plurality of Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents.

16. The network component of claim 10, wherein the provisioning server comprises an agent that requests the UE configuration and capability information from the UE and a plurality of deployed service discovery systems that analyze the UE configuration and capability information and provision accordingly a plurality of services.

17. The network component of claim 10, wherein the UE configuration and capability information comprises software including libraries and applications that are installed on the UE.

18. A method comprising:

providing user equipment configuration and capability information from a user equipment (UE); and

receiving an application at the UE based on the configuration and capability information.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising:

monitoring the UE configuration and capability information at the UE;

combining the UE configuration and capability information in one or more reports;

sending the one or more reports to provide the UE configuration and cap'"'"'ability information; and

downloading the application that is provisioned based on the UE configuration and capability information.

20. The method of claim 18 further comprising:

maintaining the UE configuration and capability information on the UE; and

updating the UE configuration and capability information when an application is downloaded on the UE.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the UE configuration and capability information is provided upon a user request to download an application on the UE.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein the UE configuration and capability information is provided upon receiving a notification at the UE about an application.

23. The method of claim 18, wherein the UE configuration and capability information is provided via a session initiation protocol (SIP) message.

24. The method of claim 18, wherein the UE configuration and capability information comprises software including libraries and applications that are installed on the UE.

25. The method of claim 18, wherein the UE determines to provide the UE configuration and capability information on at least one of a periodic basis, a non-periodic basis, and upon a change to the UE configuration and capability information.

26. A method comprising:

receiving user equipment (UE) configuration and capability information at a provisioning server; and

providing an application from the provisioning server based on the UE configuration and capability information.

27. The method of claim 26 further comprising:

receiving a plurality of reports at the provisioning server that, comprise the UE configuration and capability information; and

provisioning the application based on the UE capability and configuration information before providing the application.

28. The method of claim 26 further comprising:

maintaining the UE configuration and capability information in a database that is shared with a plurality of provisioning servers.

29. The method of claim 26 further comprising:

adding the application to a list of provisioned application/updates associated with a UE.

30. The method of claim 26 further comprising:

pushing an unsolicited application update that is provisioned based on the UE configuration and capability information to a UE.

31. The method of claim 26 further comprising:

announcing an application that is provisioned based on the UE configuration and capability information.

32. The method of claim 26 further comprising:

adding a UE identifier (ID) to a list of UE IDs that is associated with an application that is provisioned based on the UE capability and configuration information.

33. The method of claim 26, wherein the UE configuration and capability information comprises software including libraries and applications that are installed on the UE.