METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVISIONING MULTIPLE DEVICES

• US 20150195133A1
• Filed: 01/07/2015
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Visa International Service Association (Visa, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Visa International Service Association (Visa, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sheets, John, Powell, Glenn, Karpenko, Igor, Wong, Erick
• Granted Patent: US 10,433,128 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for provisioning account information to a mobile device. In one embodiment, following the provisioning of account information to a first mobile device of a user, a second mobile device of the user may be provisioned without requiring the user to provide account information for the provisioned accounts. In another embodiment, provisioned account information may be stored to a remote database, and subsequently restored to a previously provisioned mobile device or provisioned to a new mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for provisioning account information that was previously provisioned on a first device, to a second device, the method comprising:

receiving, by a server computer, a provisioning request from the first device or the second device, wherein the provisioning request comprises interaction data indicative of a local interaction between the first device and the second device;

determining, by the server computer, that provisioning the second device with the account information is permitted based upon the interaction data; and

initiating, by the server computer, provisioning of the second device with the account information associated with the first device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the provisioning request comprises receiving the provisioning request from the second device.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining, by the server computer, the account information provisioned on the first device using the interaction data received from the second device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the server computer is a first server computer, and wherein initiating the provisioning comprises sending a provisioning instruction message to a second server computer.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the interaction data includes a validation code, and the method further comprises:

generating, by the server computer, the validation code;

sending, by the server computer, the validation code to the first device; and

receiving, by the server computer, the validation code in the provisioning request from the second device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein determining that provisioning the second device with the account information is permitted comprises:

determining that the validation code generated by the server computer matches the validation code in the provisioning request received from the second device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the provisioning request includes a first device identifier associated with the first device and a second device identifier associated with the second device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first device identifier is a secure element identifier of the first device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that provisioning the second device with the account information is permitted comprises:

verifying, by the server computer, that the first device is co-located with the second device.

10. A computer comprising:

a processor; and

a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor, the tangible non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code, executable by the processor for implementing the method of claim 1.

11. A method for provisioning account information for an account that was previously provisioned on a first device, to a second device, the method comprising:

sending, by the second device, a provisioning request to a server computer, the provisioning request including interaction data indicative of a local interaction between the first device and the second device;

receiving, by the second device, provisioning data associated with the account information that was previously provisioned to the first device; and

storing, by the second device, the provisioning data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the provisioning request includes a first device identifier associated with the first device and a second device identifier associated with the second device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the second device identifier is a secure element identifier of the second device.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the interaction data includes a validation code sent to the first device by the server computer.

15. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor, the tangible non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code, executable by the processor for implementing the method of claim 11.

16. A method comprising:

receiving, by a server computer, a provisioning request from a requesting device to provision an account onto the requesting device, the provisioning request including a passcode and a device identifier associated with the requesting device;

retrieving, by the server computer, a provisioning record associated with the account from a database using the passcode, wherein the provisioning record includes a device identifier associated with a prior device that was previously provisioned with first provisioning data associated with the account;

comparing, by the server computer, the device identifier associated with the requesting device to the device identifier associated with the prior device to determine if the requesting device is the prior device;

when the requesting device is determined to be the prior device;

initiating, by the server computer, provisioning of the first provisioning data to the requesting device; and

when the requesting device is determined to be a different device than the prior device;

initiating, by the server computer, provisioning of second provisioning data associated with the account to the requesting device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first provisioning data includes a first token associated with the account.

18. The method of claim 16, where the second provisioning data includes a second token associated with the account, the second token being a different token than the first token.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the server computer is a first server computer, and wherein initiating the provisioning of second provisioned account information to the requesting device comprises sending a provisioning instruction message to a second server computer.

20. A computer comprising:

a processor; and

a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor, the tangible non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code, executable by the processor for implementing the method of claim 16.