Patent ID: 8528068

Claim:
A method of providing a user of a wireless mobile client device access to an application service delivered on a wireless telephone network, the method comprising: receiving a request to activate the application service on a wireless mobile client device that is operating in a wireless telephone network that dynamically assigns an IP network address to the wireless mobile client device for use in accessing the application service, wherein the application service uses the IP network address as a destination address for communications with the wireless mobile client device in providing application services to the wireless mobile client device; upon receipt of a user ID and a password from the wireless mobile client device seeking to access the application service available over the wireless telephone network when a user first seeks to activate the application service on the wireless mobile client device, authenticating the wireless mobile client device with the user ID and password; in response to successfully authenticating, provisioning the wireless mobile client device to use the application service and generating an encrypted electronic ticket for identifying the wireless mobile client device and sending the encrypted electronic ticket to the assigned network address for use in identification of the wireless mobile client device when the wireless mobile client device reconnects to the application service using a different assigned IP network address after the wireless mobile client device has been logged out of the application service; receiving the encrypted electronic ticket sent from the wireless mobile client device using the different assigned IP network address; and in response to receiving, authorizing the wireless mobile client device at the different assigned IP network address access to use the application service by identifying the wireless mobile client device based on the encrypted electronic ticket without the user ID and the password.