Background delivery of device configuration and branding

• US 9,392,395 B1
• Filed: 01/16/2014
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Indurkar, Dhananjay
• Primary Examiner(s): Wyche, Myron K
• Application Number:
  US14/157,507
• Time in Patent Office: 908 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods and systems for activating and/or customizing a mobile device. A mobile device may comprise a brand configuration system operable to monitor activity on the device, analyze the monitored activity, build a queue of probable brand-specific data based on the analysis, and download the queued data from a brand configuration server. In some embodiments, a brand configuration process may be completed in the background on a device while an activation process is being completed in the foreground of the device.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

an activation application stored in the memory and executed by the processor operable to complete an activation process on a new or a reset mobile device;

a monitoring application stored in the memory and executed by the processor operable to monitor activity on the new or the reset mobile device during activation of the new or the reset mobile device; and

an analyzer application stored in the memory and executed by the processor operable to receive information from the monitoring application and build a queue of brand-specific data to be downloaded to the new or the reset mobile device during the activation process based on the received information;

wherein the new or the reset mobile device communicates with a brand configuration server via a network connection after completion of the activation process, and wherein the monitoring application facilitates the download of the queued data to the new or the reset mobile device from the brand configuration server.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the analyzer application receives information from a network server about the past history of the user of the new or the reset mobile device.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the monitoring application operates in the background without interacting directly with the user of the new or the reset mobile device.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the analyzer application operates in the background without interacting directly with the user of the new or the reset mobile device.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the monitoring application monitors activity continuously or periodically, and communicates the monitored activity to the analyzer application continuously or periodically.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the monitored activity comprises information input by the user during the activation process.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the memory of the new or the reset mobile device comprises a system partition, a carrier partition, and a user partition.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the queued data that is downloaded to the new or the reset mobile device is presented to the user as options for implementation during or after the activation process.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the monitoring application stores a history of the monitored activity.

10. A method for installing brand specific data on a mobile device comprising:

monitoring, by an application stored in a memory of a mobile device and executed by a processor stored on the mobile device, activity on the mobile device during the activation of the mobile device;

analyzing, by the application, the monitored activity to determine probable brand-specific data;

building, by the application during the activation of the mobile device, a queue of the probable brand-specific data for download to the mobile device based on the analyzing, wherein the queued probable brand-specific data is ordered;

modifying the order of the queue based upon the monitoring; and

downloading, by the application from the modified queue, the probable brand-specific data from a brand configuration server in communication with the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein monitoring is completed continuously or periodically.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising changing the queue of probable data based on one or more monitored activity.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein monitoring is accomplished by a monitoring application on the mobile device, and analyzing is accomplished by an analyzer application on the mobile device.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the steps of monitoring, analyzing, building, and downloading are completed in the background of the mobile device without directly interacting with the user of the mobile device.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising presenting the downloaded brand-specific data to the user for implementation on the mobile device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the downloaded brand-specific data comprises multiple options or versions of the downloaded brand-specific data to be presented to the user.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the probable brand-specific data comprises one or more of:

a selection of backgrounds, start-up graphics and sounds, shut-down graphics and sounds, ring tones, voice mail contact, or customer care number.

18. A method for activation of a mobile device comprising:

wirelessly delivering an activation payload to the mobile device;

completing an activation process for the mobile device using the activation payload, wherein completing the activation process comprises user interaction with the mobile device; and

completing a brand configuration process for the mobile device, wherein completing the brand configuration process comprises;

monitoring, by an application stored in a non-transitory memory of the mobile device, activity on the mobile device during the activation of the mobile device;

analyzing, by the application, the monitored activity to determine brand-specific data;

building, by the application, a queue of the brand-specific data for download to the mobile device based on the analysis;

downloading, by the application, the brand-specific data from a brand configuration server in communication with the mobile device; and

completing, by the application, the brand configuration process by downloading the brand-specific data from the queue, wherein the brand configuration process is completed in the background of the mobile device without user interaction with the mobile device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the monitoring is accomplished by a monitoring application on the mobile device, and the analyzing is accomplished by an analyzer application on the mobile device.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein monitoring is completed continuously or periodically, the method further comprising modifying the queue of brand-specific data based on one or more monitored activity.