Patent ID: 8369845

Claim:
A method of obtaining mobile telephone service software for use in a mobile telephone of a user, the method comprising: backing up and storing, in a service management platform, user description information and service description information related to the mobile telephone of the user; sending, by an access equipment to the service management platform, a request of the user for a subscription to the mobile telephone service software, the access equipment being different than the mobile telephone of the user; processing, by the service management platform, the subscription request of the user; indicating, by the access equipment to the service management platform, a device to which to transfer the subscribed mobile telephone service software; transferring, by the service management platform to the indicated device, the subscribed mobile telephone service software; transmitting, by the indicated device to the mobile telephone of the user, the subscribed mobile telephone service software received from the service management platform; and installing, at the mobile telephone of the user, the subscribed mobile telephone service software received from the indicated device, for use in the mobile telephone of the user.