Patent ID: 11895505
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
sending, by a second device, a request for allocating a virtual subscriber identity for a first device to a server;
allocating, by the server, the virtual subscriber identity for the first device, wherein the virtual subscriber identity is corresponding to a communication number of the second device;
sending, by the second device, a data package to the first device via a short range communications connection, wherein the data package comprises first information associated with the virtual subscriber identity corresponding to the communication number of the second device;
receiving, by the first device, the data package from the second device via the short range communications connection;
obtaining, by the first device, the virtual subscriber identity according to the first information in the received data package;
establishing, by the server, an association between the virtual subscriber identity of the first device and the communication number of the second device;
accessing, by the first device, a network via the virtual subscriber identity;
adding, by the server, a first charge generated by the virtual subscriber identity to a second charge associated with the communication number of the second device according to the association when the first device accesses the network via the virtual subscriber identity.