Patent ID: 8244283

Claim:
A user controlled temporary mobile phone service device swapping system comprising: a plurality of cellular phone user control accounts on a user controlled mobile phone service device swapping system accessible through an Internet connection to a cellular phone user interface accessible through each of a plurality of processors each under control of a different cellular phone user, each different cellular phone user associated with a different cellular phone user control account; at least one telephone number registered with each of the plurality of cellular phone user control accounts, each cellular phone user control account associated with a different telephone number than each other cellular phone user control account; and at least two different mobile phone devices registered with each of the plurality of cellular phone user control accounts, each of the at least two different mobile phone devices comprising a mobile phone component that provisions mobile phone communication through a mobile phone telecommunication network and a unique identifier different from unique identifiers associated with each of the at least two different mobile phone devices registered with each of the other cellular phone user control accounts of the plurality of cellular phone user control accounts; wherein the cellular phone user interface is configured to receive input from the cellular phone user associated with the cellular phone user control account to indicate which of the at least two different mobile phone devices associated with the cellular phone user control account is to be associated with a first of the at least one associated with the user control account and to transmit data indicating the association to a service provider's phone number registry.