Preventing deregistration from fleet accounts

US9021069B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-9021069-B2
Application numberUS-201213534662-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateJun 27, 2012
Priority dateJun 27, 2012
Publication dateApr 28, 2015
Grant dateApr 28, 2015

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This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for managing access to a fleet account of mobile electronic devices. For instance, an administrator of a business and educational institution may place an order with an offering service to purchase a large number of eBook reader devices. The offering service identifies that the business and educational institution is ordering a fleet of devices. Furthermore, each of the devices ordered are associated or registered to a managed or fleet account controlled by the administrator of the business and educational institution. The techniques described herein prevent an individual user of a fleet device from de-registering the device from the managed account, and also allow an account administrator to alter preferred settings of the managed account. Further, techniques are described for allowing a user of a device to opt-in or associate their device with the account.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising: under control of one or more computing systems configured with executable instructions, receiving an order for one or more client devices; determining whether a particular client device of the one or more client devices is to be registered with an account; and at least partly in response to determining that the particular client device of the one or more client devices is to be registered with the account: registering the particul…

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What does patent US9021069B2 cover?
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for managing access to a fleet account of mobile electronic devices. For instance, an administrator of a business and educational institution may place an order with an offering service to purchase a large number of eBook reader devices. The offering service identifies that the business and educational institution is ordering a fleet of devices. Fu…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Ducrou Jon Robert, Smith Brandon J, Brennan Christopher M, and 6 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04L41/0803. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Apr 28 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
What related patents are in patentsdb?
We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).