Automatic device authentication and account identification without user input when application is started on mobile station

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9106665-B2
Application number	US-201213629791-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2012
Priority date	Feb 4, 2010
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Disclosed procedures automatically identify a carrier-authorized mobile station and verify an account related identifier associated with the device, in response to start-up of an application in the device. Application start-up causes the device to send a request to an application server, with the device's current IP address, MTN and a device identifier such as MEID or ESN. The server queries an AAA system of the network to retrieve the MTN that has been assigned the IP address. If the retrieved MTN matches the MTN passed to the server in the request, the server queries a network database such as DMD for the device identifier associated with the MTN. A match of the device identifier retrieved from the network database with that passed to the server via the request indicates authenticity of the requesting device and its MTN.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of automatically obtaining access to an application service, comprising steps of:
upon activation of an application for execution on a mobile station, automatically accessing resources within the mobile station to obtain an account number of the mobile station for communications of the mobile station through the network and a device specific identifier of the mobile station;
sending a request for the application service from the mobile station via…

Assignees

• Cellco Partnership Dba Verizon

Inventors

• Ahmed Shahid
• Gaddam Venkat

Classifications

• H04W12/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M2203/6072

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0892

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/102 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W12/06

  Electricity · mapped topic