Provisioning by delivered items

• US 9,106,632 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2012
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: First Data Corporation (Fiserv Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: First Data Corporation (Fiserv Incorporated)
• Inventors: Musfeldt, Roger Lynn
• Primary Examiner(s): Zeender, Florian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Amsdell, Dana
• Application Number:
  US13/481,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,173 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/00 Payment architectures, schemes or protocols apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/80 Wireless network architectures or network communication protocols for wireless network security H04W12/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/061 applying further key derivation, e.g. deriving traffic keys from a pair-wise master key cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for generation of secret information including derivation or calculation of cryptographic keys or passwords H04L9/0861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/062 applying encryption of the keys cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution using key encryption key H04L9/0822
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/061 for key exchange, e.g. in peer-to-peer networks cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key agreement H04L9/0838
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3234 involving additional secure or trusted devices, e.g. TPM, smartcard, USB or software token network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using an additional device in a packet data network H04L63/0853
• 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 12/35 Protecting application or service provisioning, e.g. securing SIM application provisioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for device provisioning. According to one example embodiment of the invention, a method can be provided. The method can include identifying, from a computer-readable memory, provisioning information associated with a device; attaching the provisioning information to an item; and preparing the item to be sent to a location of the associated device, wherein the device is provisioned based at least in part on the item. In certain embodiments, one or more operations can be performed by one or more computers associated with a service provider.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying, from a computer-readable memory, provisioning information associated with a specific device;

attaching the provisioning information to a physical item; and

preparing the physical item to be delivered to a location associated with the device,

wherein the device is provisioned with a first application based at least in part on the provisioning information attached to the physical item, and

provisioning the device comprises;

registering the device with a service provider that provides ongoing functionality to the device,

initiating communication between the device and the service provider; and

initiating installation of a second application on the one or more computer readable memories of the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the provisioning information comprises receiving the provisioning information from a provider of the device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the provisioning information comprises receiving the provisioning information from a provider of a service for the device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical item comprises a statement or a bill for the device or a service associated with the device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein attaching the provisioning information comprises embedding a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag into the statement or the bill, or attaching an RFID tag to the statement or the bill.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the provisioning is triggered based at least in part on one or more of contacting the RFID, identifying the RFID, or receiving a signal from the RFID.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein attaching the provisioning information to the physical item comprises printing a bar code or an image onto the statement or the bill, or attaching the bar code or the image onto the statement or the bill.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the provisioning is triggered based at least in part on scanning or capturing the bar code or the image.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein preparing the physical item to be delivered to the location associated with the device comprises packaging the physical item and mailing the physical item to a user of the device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein preparing the physical item to be delivered to the location associated with device comprises packaging the physical item.

11. A method comprising:

storing, in one or more computer-readable memories of a device, a first application for processing one or more provisioning triggers;

receiving, by an end user from a service provider, a physical item that contains a provisioning trigger;

processing the provisioning trigger via the first application;

initiating communication between the device and the service provider based at least in part on the provisioning trigger;

initiating installation of a second application on the one or more computer-readable memories of the device based at least in part on the provisioning trigger; and

provisioning the second application of the device with the service provider based at least in part on the provisioning trigger, such that the second application is configured to facilitate an ongoing service provided by the service provider, wherein provisioning the second application includes hardware information associated with the device.

12. A system comprising:

at least one memory having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions; and

at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to;

identify, from a computer-readable memory, provisioning information associated with hardware of a device;

attach the provisioning information to a physical item; and

prepare the physical item for delivery to a location associated with the device hardware,

wherein the device is provisioned with a service provider based at least in part on the provisioning information attached to the item, and

provisioning the device comprises;

registering the device with the service provider, the service provider providing ongoing functionality to the device,

initiating communication between the device and the service provider; and

initiating installation of a second application on the one or more computer readable memories of the device,

such that the device is configured to facilitate a service from the service provider that provides ongoing functionality to the device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the computer-executable instructions to identify the provisioning information comprise instructions to receive the provisioning information from a provider of the device.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the computer-executable instructions to identify the provisioning information comprise instructions to receive the provisioning information from a provider of a service for the device.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the physical item comprises a statement or bill for the device or a service associated with the device.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the computer-executable instructions to attach the provisioning information comprise instructions to embed a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag into the statement or bill, or attaching an RFID tag to the statement or bill.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the device is provisioned at least in response to contacting the RFID, identifying the RFID, or receiving a signal from the RFID.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the computer-executable instructions to attach the provisioning information comprise instructions to print a bar code or image onto the statement or bill, or attaching a bar code or image onto the statement or bill.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the device is provisioned at least in part to scanning or capturing the bar code or image.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein the computer-executable instructions to prepare the physical item to be delivered to the location associated with device comprises either instructions to package the physical item and mail the physical item to a user of the device;

or instructions to package the physical item.