Open mobile alliance provisioning via a global wimax device registry

• US 8,370,491 B1
• Filed: 06/20/2007
• Issued: 02/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Clearwire Ip Holdings LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Clearwire Ip Holdings LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Breau, Jeremy R., Belser, John E., Santharam, Arun
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Chirag R
• Application Number:
  US11/765,779
• Time in Patent Office: 2,057 Days
• Field of Search: 709227-228, 455410-4141
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0843 based on generic templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for writing provisioning parameters to a device. In a first aspect, a set of computer-readable media provide a method that includes receiving a request for access onto a communication network from a device. Attributes about the device are retrieved from a first database that details the capabilities of the device. One of the attributes may identify the device a being capable of being provisioned via Open Mobile Alliance protocol, wherein the first database sends a request to a second database to retrieve a tree structure of the device. The tree structure is populated with one or more provisioning parameters, and the populated tree structure is written to the device.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of writing provisioning parameters to a device, the method comprising:

receiving a request for access onto a communication network from a device;

retrieving one or more attributes of the device from a first database, wherein at least one attribute identifies the device as capable of being provisioned via Open Mobile Alliance protocol, wherein the first database is a Global WiMAX Device Registry;

retrieving a tree structure of the device from an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) provisioning server that stores the tree structure of the device, wherein the tree structure is populated with one or more provisioning parameters; and

writing the populated tree structure to the device.

2. The non-transitory media according to claim 1, wherein the tree structure is created by a manufacturer of the device.

3. The non-transitory media according to claim 1, wherein the one or more provisioning parameters inform the device how a network operator wants the device to behave.

4. The non-transitory media according to claim 1, wherein a network operator is unaware of the device'"'"'s capabilities.

5. The non-transitory media according to claim 1, wherein the one or more attributes in the first database are provided by one or more device attribute providers.

6. The non-transitory media according to claim 5, wherein the one or more device attribute providers include at least one of a manufacturer, a retailer, and an end-user.

7. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of writing provisioning parameters to a device, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first database, a request for one or more device attributes of the device, the request including a hardware identifier of the device, wherein the first database is a Global WiMAX Device Registry;

providing, by the first database to a network operator server, the one or more device attributes based on the hardware identifier;

determining, by the first database, that the device is capable of being provisioned via Open Mobile Alliance protocol based on the hardware identifier; and

forwarding, by the first database, the hardware identifier to an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) provisioning server that stores a tree structure of the device, wherein the tree structure is populated with one or more provisioning parameters and is written to the device.

8. The non-transitory media according to claim 7, wherein the tree structure is created by a manufacturer of the device.

9. The non-transitory media according to claim 7, wherein the one or more provisioning parameters inform the device how a network operator wants the device to behave.

10. The non-transitory media according to claim 7, wherein the network operator server is unaware of the device'"'"'s capabilities.

11. The non-transitory media according to claim 7, wherein the one or more attributes originate from one or more device attribute providers.

12. The non-transitory media according to claim 11, wherein the one or more device attribute providers include at least one of a manufacturer, a retailer, and an end-user.

13. A system for writing provisioning parameters to a device, comprising:

a Global WiMAX Device Registry for associating a hardware identifier and one or more attributes for each of a plurality of devices;

an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) provisioning server for associating the hardware identifier and a tree structure for each of the plurality of devices;

a provisioning system for retrieving a tree structure of the device from the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) provisioning server and for populating at least one tree structure with one or more provisioning parameters; and

a network operator server for communicating with the Global WiMax Device Registry to retrieve one or more device attributes of the requesting device and for writing the populated tree structure to the device requesting access to the network operator'"'"'s communication network.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the network operator server communicates with the Global WiMAX Device Registry to retrieve one or more device attributes of the requesting device when the network operator has no knowledge of capabilities of the requesting device.

15. The system according to claim 13, wherein the Global WiMAX Device Registry communicates a hardware identifier of the requesting device to the an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) provisioning server in order identify the at least one tree structure.

16. The system according to claim 13, wherein the one or more provisioning parameters are determined by the network operator.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the one or more provisioning parameters inform the requesting device how the network operator wants the requesting device to behave.

18. The system according to claim 13, wherein at least one tree structure of at least one device of the plurality of devices is created by a manufacturer of the at least one device.