Patent ID: 8391832
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, for selectively applying a service credit to a new customer account, comprising: receiving, by a first system comprising a processor, in response to the new customer account being activated at a prepaid system, an activation notice comprising a first mobile subscriber number; receiving, by the first system, from a device associated with the new customer account, a trigger message comprising an international mobile equipment identity of the device, an international mobile subscriber identity stored in a subscriber identity module installed in the device, and a second mobile subscriber number; denying, if the first mobile subscriber number and the second mobile subscriber number do not match, application of the service credit; and performing, if the first mobile, subscriber number and the second mobile subscriber number match, additional operations comprising: an international mobile equipment identity list, application of the service credit; and