Patent ID: 6778821
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A product, comprising:a computer-readable medium; and instructions carried by the computer-readable medium, said instructions, when executed, being arranged to cause a computer system to process a provisioning request for a mobile telephone number utilizing a single interface by performing the steps of: receiving a provisioning request for a communications device into a single computer interface; determining a service region from a plurality of service regions in which provisioning will occur for the communications device after receiving the provisioning request for the communications device; identifying a telephone number from a plurality of telephone numbers based at least in part upon the determined service region; associating the identified telephone number with the communications device; determining, from a plurality of carriers, a particular carrier that is associated with the identified telephone number; identifying, from a plurality of provisioning parameter sets, a provisioning parameter set that is required by the particular carrier's provisioning system; creating provisioning data by supplying information from the provisioning request for the communications device to fill required provisioning parameter fields for the identified provisioning parameter set; establishing communication with the particular carrier's provisioning system utilizing one corresponding configuration from among a plurality of configurations, where each configuration is adapted to enable communications with one, particular provisioning system; and sending the provisioning data to the particular carrier's provisioning system in accord with the one configuration to obtain implementation of the provisioning request for the communications device associated with the identified telephone number.