Techniques for mobile device personalization

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9392103-B2
Application number	US-201414310037-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2014
Priority date	Sep 13, 2013
Publication date	Jul 12, 2016
Grant date	Jul 12, 2016

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:
receiving user credentials at a mobile device kiosk;
transmitting the received user credentials to a remote authentication server;
upon authentication, receiving user data associated with the user credentials from a remote data server;
transferring the user data associated with the user credentials to a mobile device of the mobile device kiosk, the user data is transferred between the mobile device kiosk and a wireless transmitter embedded on a printed circuit board (PCB) of the mobile device, the wireless transmitter comprising a radio frequency identification (RFID) module 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, the mobile device configured to be personalizable based on the received user data; and
providing the mobile device to a user.

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

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , 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 3 , the profile information including one or more of authentication data for a user account, photos, contact information for members of a social graph, login information for one or more services, browsing history, bookmarks, preferences, or advertising data.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , the RFID module is configured to communicate with the non-volatile memory over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , the user data including a virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM).

7. A system, comprising:
an authentication server; and
a mobile device kiosk, the mobile device kiosk including:
an input module configured to accept user credentials for authentication with the authentication server; and
a wireless transmitter configured to communicate user data associated with the user credentials to a wireless transmitter embedded on a printed circuit board (PCB) of a mobile device, the wireless transmitter comprising a radio frequency identification (RFID) module 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, the mobile device configured to be personalizable based on the received user data, the wireless transmitter further configured to, upon authentication with the authentication server, transfer the user data associated with the user credentials to the mobile device of the mobile device kiosk.

8. The system of claim 7 , the user data is transferred from the mobile device kiosk to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device.

9. The system 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.

10. The system of claim 9 , the profile information including one or more of authentication data for a user account, photos, contact information for members of a social graph, login information for one or more services, browsing history, bookmarks, preferences, or advertising data.

11. The system of claim 7 , the RFID module is configured to communicate with the non-volatile memory over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

12. The system of claim 7 , the user data including a virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM).

13. A mobile device comprising:
a processing unit; and
a printed circuit board (PCB) including:
a non-volatile memory unit; and
a wireless transmitter unit configured to accept user data from a wireless transmitter of a mobile device kiosk and instruct the processing unit to store the user data in the non-volatile memory unit, the wireless transmitter unit comprising a radio frequency identification (RFID) module configured to receive the user data regardless of a power state of the mobile device, the mobile device configured to be personalizable based on the received user data.

14. The mobile device of claim 13 , the user data is accepted from the mobile device kiosk to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device.

15. The mobile device of claim 14 , 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.

16. The mobile device of claim 15 , the profile information including one or more of authentication data for a user account, photos, contact information for members of a social graph, login information for one or more services, browsing history, bookmarks, preferences, or advertising data.

17. The mobile device of claim 13 , the PCB includes a plurality of vias that are positioned between the wireless transmitter and a source of interference, the plurality of vias extending from a top of the PCB to a layer of the PCB in which interference from the source of interference is below a threshold amount.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:
receive user credentials at a mobile device kiosk;
transmit the received user credentials to a remote authentication server;
upon authentication, receive user data associated with the user credentials from a remote data server;
transfer the user data associated with the user credentials to a mobile device of the mobile device kiosk, the user data is transferred between the mobile device kiosk and a wireless transmitter embedded on a printed circuit board (PCB) of the mobile device, the wireless transmitter comprising a radio frequency identification (RFID) module 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, the mobile device configured to be personalizable based on the received user data; and
provide the mobile device to a user.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the user data is transferred to the mobile device without powering on the mobile device.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , 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.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20 , the profile information including one or more of authentication data for a user account, photos, contact information for members of a social graph, login information for one or more services, browsing history, bookmarks, preferences, or advertising data.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the RFID module is configured to communicate with the non-volatile memory over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , the user data including a virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM).

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Maguire Yael
• Akhi Fraidun

Classifications

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title

• H04M2250/04

  including near field communication means, e.g. RFID · CPC title

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/72563 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/50 Primary

  Service provisioning or reconfiguring · CPC title