Patent ID: 9622070
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: transferring one or more devices from a first subscription associated with a first network operator to a second subscription associated with a second network operator, wherein transferring from the first subscription to the second subscription comprises modifying a device identifier; updating the one or more devices identified in a connection map with the modified device identifier, wherein the connection map is associated with a social network with which the one or more of the devices subscribed to a subscription service are associated and the connection map comprises contact information associated with the one or more devices; causing the one or more devices to be notified of second subscription information based upon the connection map by causing a message to be sent to each of the one or more devices identified in the connection map using the contact information for those devices also contained in the connection map, wherein the message comprises an indication of the second subscription information; and updating a phone book that the one or more devices access with the second subscription information.