Customizing operating system based on detected carrier

• US 20140095705A1
• Filed: 09/30/2013
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd. (Razer Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Nextbit Systems, Inc. (Razer Incorporated)
• Inventors: Chan, Michael A., Moss, Tom, Quan, Justin
• Granted Patent: US 10,346,481 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/174 Redundancy elimination performed by the file system management of the data involved in backup or backup restore using de-duplication of the data G06F11/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/278 Data partitioning, e.g. horizontal or vertical partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5038 considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks, e.g. taking priority or time dependency constraints into consideration scheduling strategies G06F9/4881 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Technology disclosed herein includes a method for loading a carrier specific OS onto a computing device depending on what network the computing device is connected to. The computing device detects an identity of a network to which a computing device is connected or is to be connected during a network identification process executed on the computing device. The network can be identified, e.g., by examining a subscriber identification module (SIM) card electronically connected to the computing device. The device then sends a request including the identity of the network to a remote registration service. In turn the device receives an instruction from the remote registration service identifying a distribution of an operating system (OS) specific for the network. After retrieving the OS distribution, the device loads the distribution of the operating system on the computing device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

detecting an identity of a network to which a computing device is connected or is to be connected, during a network identification process executed on the computing device;

sending a request including the identity of the network to a remote registration service;

receiving an instruction from the remote registration service identifying a distribution of an operating system specific for the network; and

loading the distribution of the operating system on the computing device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the network identification process is a device booting process or a network connection process.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the network identification process is triggered by an event of the computing device changing its location, an event of the computing device booting up, an event of a subscriber module of the computing device being replaced, or a scheduled network detecting event.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises:

detecting an identity of a network to which a computing device is connected or is to be connected, during a booting process executed on the computing device, by examining a subscriber module electronically connected to the computing device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the subscriber module is a subscriber identification module (SIM) card.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises:

detecting an identity of a network to which a computing device is connected or is to be connected, during a booting process executed on the computing device, by identifying a radio frequency of the network.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises:

detecting an identity of a network to which a computing device is connected or is to be connected, during a booting process executed on the computing device, by identifying a service set identification (SSID) of the network or a media access control (MAC) address of a gateway of the network.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving the distribution of the operating system, or a difference between the distribution of the operating system and an operating system currently installed on the computing device, from a cloud storage service.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the instruction from the remote registration service includes a location where the distribution of the operating system is stored.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the distribution of the operating system is customized based on the identity of the network.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the distribution of the operating system is customized based on the identity of the network and an identity of a user of the computing device.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the loading comprises:

loading the distribution of the operating system on the computing device by restarting the computing device.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the loading comprises:

loading the distribution of the operating system on the computing device by applying customized features of the distribution to an operating system currently running on the computing device without restarting the computing device.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the customized features include pre-loaded applications or user interface designs,

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a corporate account for the user based on the a subscriber number of the computing device, a user identity, or the network connected to the computing device; and

applying user interface settings or loading pre-loaded applications specific for the corporate account onto the computing device.

16. An electronic device comprising:

a processor;

a network component configured to communicate with a remote registration service; and

a memory component storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform a process including;

detecting an identity of a network to which an electronic device is connected or is to be connected, during a device booting process executed on the electronic device;

sending a request including the identity of the network to the remote registration service;

receiving an instruction from the remote registration service identifying a distribution of an operating system specific for the network; and

loading the distribution of the operating system on the electronic device during the device booting process.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, further comprising:

a circuitry configured to electronically connect to a subscriber identification module (SIM) card such that the identity of the network can be detected by examining the subscriber module.

18. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the detecting comprises:

detecting an identity of a network to which a computing device is connected or is to be connected, during a device booting process executed on the computing device.

19. The electronic device of claim 16, further comprising:

a data retrieving component configured to retrieve the distribution of the operating system.

20. The electronic device of claim 16, further comprising:

a data retrieving component configured to retrieve a difference between the distribution of the operating system and an operating system currently running on the electronic device.

21. A method, comprising:

identifying a subscriber module being inserted into an electronic device;

retrieving an operating system from a cloud storage system, wherein the operating system is customized based on an identity of the subscriber module; and

executing the operating system on the electronic device so that the operating system replaces an original operating system on the electronic device.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the subscriber module contains identity information of a subscriber of a network.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the subscriber module includes subscriber information being used to identify a network for the subscriber module and the operating system is customized for the network,

24. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

determining an identity of a user of the subscriber module based on the information in subscriber module; and

sending a request including the identity of the user to a registration server, wherein the registration server determines an operating system for the user.

25. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

determining an identity of an organization owning the subscriber module based on information in the subscriber module; and

sending a request including the identity of the organization to a registration server, wherein the registration server determines an operating system for the organization.

26. An apparatus comprising:

means for determining a subscriber identity based on a subscriber module electronically connected to an electronic device;

means for sending a request including the subscriber identity,

means for retrieving an operating system for the electronic device customized based on the subscriber identity from a cloud storage; and

means for running the operating system on the electronic device.