Automated device provisioning and activation

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8635678
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13852933

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A method and a network system for storing a plurality of device credentials associated with a device group comprising a plurality of wireless devices managed by an entity that is different from a network system operator, each of the plurality of device credentials associated with a different wireless device, each wireless device of the device group coupled or capable of being coupled to the network system over a wireless access network; providing a secure interface configured to assist the entity in creating or modifying at least a portion of a device-group service policy associated with the device group, the device-group service policy configured to assist the network system in controlling, monitoring, or accounting for device-group communications over the wireless access network; provisioning one or more elements based on the device-group service policy; identifying the device-group communications; and applying the device-group service policy based on the identified device-group communications.

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  • HEADWATER RESEARCH LLC

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Raleigh, Gregory G Woodside, US 336 21655

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