TECHNIQUES FOR MOBILE DEVICE PERSONALIZATION

• US 20150079935A1
• Filed: 06/20/2014
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: MAGUIRE, Yael, AKHI, Fraidun
• Granted Patent: US 9,392,103 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

Techniques for mobile device personalization are described. In an embodiment, user credentials for an online service are received at a mobile device kiosk. The user credentials may be authenticated and, upon authentication, user data associated with the user credentials may be transferred to a mobile device of the mobile device kiosk. The user data may be transferred between the mobile device kiosk and a wireless transmitter embedded on a printed circuit board (PCB) of the mobile device. Further, the user data may be transferred to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device. Once the data transfer is complete, the mobile device may be provided to a user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving user credentials at a mobile device kiosk;

authenticating the received user credentials;

upon authentication, transferring user data associated with the user credentials to a mobile device of the mobile device kiosk, the user data is transferred between the mobile device kiosk and a wireless transmitter embedded on a printed circuit board (PCB) of the mobile device; and

providing the mobile device to a user.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, the user data is transferred to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, the user data including an initialization flag used to instruct the mobile device to populate a memory of the mobile device with user profile information upon powering on the mobile device.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, the profile information including one or more of authentication data for a user account, photos, contact information for members of a social graph, login information for one or more services, browsing history, bookmarks, preferences, or advertising data.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, the wireless transmitter of the mobile device is an RFID module configured to communicate received user data to a non-volatile memory of the mobile device.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, the RFID module is configured to communicate with the non-volatile memory over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, the user data including a virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM).

8. A system, comprising:

an authentication server; and

a mobile device kiosk, the mobile device kiosk including;

an input module configured to accept user credentials for authentication with the authentication server; and

a wireless transmitter configured to communicate with a wireless transmitter embedded on a printed circuit board (PCB) of a mobile device, the wireless transmitter further configured to, upon authentication with the authentication server, transfer user data associated with the user credentials to a mobile device of the mobile device kiosk.

9. The system of claim 8, the user data is transferred from the mobile device kiosk to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device.

10. The system of claim 9, the user data including an initialization flag used to instruct the mobile device to populate a memory of the mobile device with user profile information upon powering on the mobile device.

11. The system of claim 10, the profile information including one or more of authentication data for a user account, photos, contact information for members of a social graph, login information for one or more services, browsing history, bookmarks, preferences, or advertising data.

12. The system of claim 8, the wireless transmitter of the mobile device is an RFID module configured to communicate received user data to a non-volatile memory of the mobile device.

13. The system of claim 12, the RFID module is configured to communicate with the non-volatile memory over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

14. The system of claim 8, the user data including a virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM).

15. A mobile device comprising:

a processing unit; and

a printed circuit board (PCB) including;

a non-volatile memory unit; and

a wireless transmitter unit configured to accept user data from a wireless transmitter of a mobile device kiosk and instruct the processing unit to store the user data in the non-volatile memory unit.

16. The mobile device of claim 15, the user data is accepted from the mobile device kiosk to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device.

17. The mobile device of claim 16, the user data including an initialization flag used to instruct the mobile device to populate a memory of the mobile device with user profile information upon powering on the mobile device.

18. The mobile device of claim 17, the profile information including one or more of authentication data for a user account, photos, contact information for members of a social graph, login information for one or more services, browsing history, bookmarks, preferences, or advertising data.

19. The mobile device of claim 15, the wireless transmitter of the mobile device is an RFID module configured to communicate received user data to a non-volatile memory of the mobile device.

20. The mobile device of claim 15, the PCB includes a plurality of vias that are positioned between the wireless transmitter and a source of interference, the plurality of vias extending from a top of the PCB to a layer of the PCB in which interference from the source of interference is below a threshold amount.