Techniques for mobile device personalization

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10057404-B2
Application number	US-201715785683-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2017
Priority date	Sep 13, 2013
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
transmitting user credentials to a mobile device kiosk, the user credentials comprising authentication information for authenticating a user with a remote authentication server associated with user data for personalizing a mobile device;

receiving, from the mobile device kiosk, the user data associated with the user credentials, the user data received by a wireless transmitter embedded of the mobile device, the wireless transmitter configured to receive the user data regardless of a power state of the mobile device and to communicate the received user data to a non-volatile memory of the mobile device; and
personalizing the mobile device based on the user data, wherein personalizing the mobile device comprises pre-loading payment data associated with the user, populating login data for the user for a social network, loading photos of the user onto the mobile device, loading contact information onto the mobile device, provisioning virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM) data to the mobile device, or populating a browser of the mobile device with browsing preferences, bookmarks, or advertising data for the user.

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

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , 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 1 , the wireless transmitter comprising a radio frequency identifier (RFID) module.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , the RFID module configured to communicate with the non-volatile memory over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user credentials are for a social networking service.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user credentials are for a mobile carrier service.

8. A mobile device comprising:
a processing unit; and
a printed circuit board (PCB) including:

a wireless transmitter unit configured to:
transmit user credentials to a mobile device kiosk, the user credentials comprising authentication information for authenticating a user with a remote authentication server associated with user data for personalizing a mobile device, and
receive, from the mobile device kiosk, the user data associated with the user credentials, the user data received by a wireless transmitter embedded of the mobile device, the wireless transmitter configured to receive the user data regardless of a power state of the mobile device;
non-volatile memory configured to communicate with the wireless transmitter unit to receive the user data and to be personalized by one or more of: pre-loading payment data associated with the user, populating login data for the user for a social network, loading photos of the user onto the mobile device, loading contact information onto the mobile device, provisioning virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM) data to the mobile device, or populating a browser of the mobile device with browsing preferences, bookmarks, or advertising data for the user.

9. The mobile device of claim 8 , the user data being transferred to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device.

10. The mobile device of claim 8 , 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 mobile device of claim 8 , the wireless transmitter comprising a radio frequency identifier (RFID) module.

12. The mobile device of claim 11 , the RFID module configured to communicate with the non-volatile memory over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

13. The mobile device of claim 8 , wherein the user credentials are for a social networking service.

14. The mobile device of claim 8 , wherein the user credentials are for a mobile carrier service.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:
transmit user credentials to a mobile device kiosk, the user credentials comprising authentication information for authenticating a user with a remote authentication server associated with user data for personalizing a mobile device;

receive, from the mobile device kiosk, the user data associated with the user credentials, the user data received by a wireless transmitter embedded of the mobile device, the wireless transmitter configured to receive the user data regardless of a power state of the mobile device and to communicate the received user data to a non-volatile memory of the mobile device; and
personalize the mobile device based on the user data, wherein personalizing the mobile device comprises pre-loading payment data associated with the user, populating login data for the user for a social network, loading photos of the user onto the mobile device, loading contact information onto the mobile device, provisioning virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM) data to the mobile device, or populating a browser of the mobile device with browsing preferences, bookmarks, or advertising data for the user.

16. The medium of claim 15 , the user data being transferred to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device.

17. The medium of claim 15 , 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 medium of claim 15 , the wireless transmitter comprising a radio frequency identifier (RFID) module configured to communicate with the non-volatile memory over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

19. The medium of claim 15 , wherein the user credentials are for a social networking service.

20. The medium of claim 15 , wherein the user credentials are for a mobile carrier service.

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Maguire Yael
• Akhi Fraidun

Classifications

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/50 Primary

  Service provisioning or reconfiguring · CPC title

• H04M1/72563 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title