DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR STAGING ACCOUNT SETUP

• US 20140095595A1
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: MATLIJA, Alvis
• Granted Patent: US 9,860,222 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226

Abstract

A device, method and system for staging account setup are provided. An account identifier indicative of an account is transmitted from a device to a server. An indication that the account is of a given type is received at the device from the server. At a display of the device, staged prompts for information associated with the account are provided, the staged prompts depending on the indication, each staged prompt provided at successive screens of the display, wherein different staged prompts for different account types are provided in a same application.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a processor and a display, the processor enabled to;

transmit, to a server, an account identifier indicative of an account;

receive, from the server, an indication that the account is of a given type; and

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provide, at the display, staged prompts for information associated with the account, the staged prompts depending on the indication, each staged prompt provided at successive screens of the display, wherein different staged prompts for different account types are provided in a same application.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further enabled to receive the account identifier in one or more of the same application and a list of messages.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein when the account is of first type, a first series of staged prompts are provided in the same application and when the account is of a second type, a second series of staged prompts are provided in the same application.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the given type is one of a corporate account and a personal account.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the information comprises one or more of an activation code, an account password and a device password.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein each of the staged prompts is provided with data identifying respective information to be received at a respective staged prompt.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further enabled to:

receive respective information in response to providing a respective staged prompt; and

,

provide a next staged prompt to receive next information.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further enabled to, when a given staged prompt is a last staged prompt, and last information is received:

receive, in the same application, another account identifier indicative of another account;

transmit, to the server, the another account identifier;

receive, from the server, another indication that the different account is of a respective type; and

,

provide, in the same application, more staged prompts at the display for respective information associated with the different account, the more staged prompts depending on the another indication.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further enabled to, when a given staged prompt is a last staged prompt, and last information is received, close the same application.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein data for generating the staged prompts is stored at a memory of the device.

11. A method comprising:

transmitting, from a device to a server, an account identifier indicative of an account;

receiving, at the device from the server, an indication that the account is of a given type; and

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providing, at a display of the device, staged prompts for information associated with the account, the staged prompts depending on the indication, each staged prompt provided at successive screens of the display, wherein different staged prompts for different account types are provided in a same application.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving the account identifier in one or more of the same application and a list of messages.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein when the account is of first type, a first series of staged prompts are provided in the same application and when the account is of a second type, a second series of staged prompts are provided in the same application.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the given type is one of a corporate account and a personal account.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the information comprises one or more of an activation code, an account password and a device password.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the staged prompts is provided with data identifying respective information to be received at a respective staged prompt.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving respective information in response to providing a respective staged prompt; and

,

providing a next staged prompt to receive next information.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising, when a given staged prompt is a last staged prompt, and last information is received:

receiving, in the same application, another account identifier indicative of another account;

transmitting, to the server, the another account identifier;

receiving, from the server, another indication that the different account is of a respective type; and

,

providing, in the same application, more staged prompts at the display for respective information associated with the different account, the more staged prompts depending on the another indication.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising, when a given staged prompt is a last staged prompt, and last information is received, close the same application.

20. A computer program product, comprising a nontransitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method comprising:

transmitting, from a device to a server, an account identifier indicative of an account;

receiving, at the device from the server, an indication that the account is of a given type; and

,

providing, at a display of the device, staged prompts for information associated with the account, the staged prompts depending on the indication, each staged prompt provided at successive screens of the display, wherein different staged prompts for different account types are provided in a same application.