STAGING A MOBILE DEVICE WITH A BATTERY OF THE MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20150072741A1
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Suresh, Raj V.A., Angadi, Sateesh Veerabhadrappa
• Granted Patent: US 10,091,339 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/572
• 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 and a memory arrangement, the memory arrangement storing staging profile data, the staging profile data including configuration data; 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 from the memory arrangement, the mobile device being automatically configured for communication with a communication network as a function of the configuration 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 encrypted.

6. 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.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the battery includes a processor configured to determine whether the mobile device is authorized to receive the staging profile data.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device includes a mechanical latch securing the battery to the mobile device.

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

storing staging profile data in a memory arrangement of a battery, the battery further including at least one power storage cell, the staging profile data including configuration data;

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

transmitting the staging profile data from the memory arrangement to the mobile device; and

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

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

13. The method of claim 11, 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.

14. The method of claim 13, 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.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

encrypting the staging profile data.

16. The method of claim 11, the staging profile data is received from a mobility services platform (MSP) server of the communication network that generates the staging profile data.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining whether the mobile device is authorized to receive the staging profile data.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the staging profile data corresponds to the mobile device as a function of identification data of the mobile device.

19. The method of claim 11, 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.

20. 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, the staging profile including configuration 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 as a data signal from the memory arrangement to the mobile device, the staging profile data automatically configuring the mobile device for communication with a communication network as a function of the configuration data.