EXHIBIT 7 

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Exhibit H - 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 T-Mobile in conjunction with T-Mobile’s servers, hardware, software, and services leased, owned, supported, and/or operated by T-Mobile

comprising for use with T-Mobile’s wireless network services, and all versions and variations thereof since the issuance of the asserted patent.

Issued Claim(s) Public Documentation

1. A method comprising: To the extent the preamble is limiting, T-Mobile’s Accused Instrumentalities practice the steps of a 

method as set forth in the limitations below.

1[a] 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. T-Mobile 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. T-Mobile provides various network service plans to customers for purchase, including through 

the T-Mobile.com website as well as through T-Mobile-provided services such as its pre-paid mobile 

service category, T-Mobile Prepaid Unlimited. See, e.g.:

https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/home

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https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/plan-detail/t-mobile-prepaid-plans

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https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans

T-Mobile sells mobile devices such as phones, tablets, and hotspot access points which communicate 

with the T-Mobile 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 TMobile network. See, e.g.:

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https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phones?INTNAV=tNav:Devices:CellPhones

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https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phones/brand/samsung

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https://www.t-mobile.com/hotspots-iot-connected-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 T-Mobile servers to purchase or increase data 

allotments (e.g., a T-Mobile “Data Pass”).

See, e.g.:

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https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/data-passes#prepaid

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-protocol-configurationoptions-pco-operations

1[b] 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 T-Mobile to determine the 

levels of service that are to be provided to the wireless end-user device. 

Carrier configuration information (which is service profile information) on a given wireless end-user 

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://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201270

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