Patent ID: 9736617
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for activating a mobile terminal to communicate over a communication network, the method comprising: retrieving, by a terminal via a secure website, at least one of an image and a barcode including provisioning data associated with the communication network, the provisioning data included in the at least one of the image and the barcode comprising a preferred roaming list; authenticating, by the terminal, that the mobile terminal is an authorized recipient of the provisioning data; displaying, by the terminal via the secure website, the at least one of the image and the barcode including the provisioning data comprising the preferred roaming list, the at least one of the image and the barcode embedded into at least one of a plane ticket and a travel reservation; scanning, by the mobile terminal, the at least one of the image and the barcode embedded into the at least one of a plane ticket and a travel reservation; determining, by the mobile terminal, whether the provisioning data received from the terminal has expired; and configuring, if the provisioning data received from the terminal has not expired, communication settings of the mobile terminal using the provisioning data, wherein the preferred roaming list included in the at least one of the image and the barcode is specific to a destination location of the at least one of the plane ticket and the travel reservation.