Patent ID: 9635026
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for associating a mobile computing device with an application, the mobile computing device communicating via a telecommunication network, the method comprising: receiving, by a computing system, a request to verify an application on a mobile computing device, the request including an application instance identifier associated with the application on the mobile computing device; providing a discovery telephone number to the mobile computing device; receiving, by the computing system, one or more telephone call setup requests directed to the discovery telephone number and signaling to the computing system a voice call, the one or more telephone call setup requests associated with a voice channel of the telecommunication network, the telephone call setup requests being canceled by the mobile computing device or rejected by the computing system before a voice call connection is established between the mobile computing device and the computing system; obtaining a mobile device identifier associated with the mobile computing device based on the received one or more telephone call setup requests; and associating the received application instance identifier with the mobile device identifier to authenticate the use of the application on the mobile computing device.