EXHIBIT 7 

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Exhibit G - U.S. Patent No. 9,198,042 (“’042 Patent”)

Accused Instrumentalities: smartphones, basic phones, tablets, laptops, and hotspot devices sold (including those sold in bundles with data plans) or 

used by Verizon in conjunction with Verizon’s servers, hardware, software, and services leased, owned, supported, and/or operated by Verizon 

comprising Verizon’s wireless network services, and all versions and variations thereof since the issuance of the asserted patent.

Claim 1

Issued Claim(s) Public Documentation

1. A method comprising: To the extent the preamble is limiting, Verizon’s Accused Instrumentalities practice the steps of 

a method as set forth in the limitations below.

[1a] receiving, over a service control link, 

a report from a wireless end-user device, 

the report comprising information about a 

device service state;

The Accused Instrumentalities comprise receiving, over a service control link, a report from a 

wireless end-user device, the report comprising information about a device service state. 

Verizon offers telecommunications service plans to customers that are provided through various 

network elements such as telecommunications base stations and cell sites, edge servers, and 

other telecommunications servers. Verizon provides various network service plans to customers 

for purchase, including through the Verizon.com website as well as through Verizon-provided 

services such as its pre-paid mobile service category, Total By Verizon. See, e.g.:

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https://www.verizon.com/sales/digital/plans/popularplan.html?line=newLine1&mtnFlow=P

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https://www.totalbyverizon.com/plans

Verizon sells mobile devices such as phones, tablets, and hotspot access points which 

communicate with the Verizon wireless service network, which is a wireless access network. 

Such devices comprise end-user devices, as do devices which customers purchase elsewhere and 

“bring” to the Verizon network. See, e.g.:

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https://www.verizon.com/smartphones/?sort=best-sellers

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https://www.verizon.com/internet-devices/

The Accused Instrumentalities use different service plans to provide service, for example, to 

mobile hotspot devices, mobile phones and tablets provisioned with an “unlimited” data plan, 

mobile phones and tablets provisioned with a prepaid plan, mobile phones and tablets which for 

which the associated subscriber account has reached its allotted data limit for the service period, 

and mobile phones and tablets which are specifically communicating with Verizon servers to 

purchase or increase data allotments (e.g., a Verizon “Data Boost”).

See, e.g.:

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https://www.verizon.com/solutions-and-services/add-ons/entertainment/premiumstreaming/#pricing

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https://www.verizon.com/support/data-boost-faqs/

Verizon’s network receives service plan information from devices which correspond to the 

subscriber service plan associated with that wireless end-user device, which is a report 

comprising information about a device service state. For example, Verizon’s network receives 

an attach request, bearer resource allocation request, bearer resource modification request, or 

PDN connectivity request from a wireless end-user device (UE), which includes a report 

comprising information about the UE’s service state such as UE network capability, UE status, 

and protocol configuration options (PCO):

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3GPP TS 24.301 v15.03

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/mb-protocolconfiguration-options-pco-operations

[1b] determining, based on the report, 

that a particular service policy setting of 

the wireless end-user device needs to be 

modified, the particular service policy 

setting being stored in a protected 

partition of the wireless end-user device, 

the protected partition configured to deter 

or prevent unauthorized modifications to 

the particular service policy setting, the 

particular service policy setting being 

associated with a service profile that 

provides for access by the wireless enduser device to a network data service 

over a wireless access network, the 

particular service policy setting 

configured to assist in controlling one or 

more communications associated with 

the wireless end-user device over the 

wireless access network; and

The Accused Instrumentalities comprise “determining, based on the report, that a particular 

service policy setting of the wireless end-user device needs to be modified, the particular service 

policy setting being stored in a protected partition of the wireless end-user device, the protected 

partition configured to deter or prevent unauthorized modifications to the particular service 

policy setting, the particular service policy setting being associated with a service profile that 

provides for access by the wireless end-user device to a network data service over a wireless 

access network, the particular service policy setting configured to assist in controlling one or 

more communications associated with the wireless end-user device over the wireless access 

network.”

Examples of such service policy settings on the wireless end-user device include, for example, 

APN access settings and service plan settings stored on the wireless end-user device, including 

for example in an encrypted partition of the device or in an encrypted SIM card. Such service 

policy settings are configured to assist in controlling one or more communications associated 

with the wireless end-user device over the wireless access network, insofar as the policies are 

used by Verizon to determine the levels of service that are to be provided to the wireless enduser device. 

Carrier configuration information (which is service profile information) on a given wireless enduser device is secured within the device through the use of privileges and other access settings, 

including through the use of matching signatures between the carrier settings and one stored 

with the SIM card information. See, e.g.: https://www.verizon.com/support/knowledge-base212894/

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