Patent ID: 7711392

Claim:
A mobile device provisioning system comprising: a primary mobile device including: a primary device controller including at least one processor, for controlling operation of the primary mobile device; a primary device display coupled to the primary device controller for displaying information; a primary device user input device coupled to the primary device controller; a primary device storage element coupled to the primary device controller for storing user data; a primary device radio frequency (RF) communications system for exchanging RF signals with a wireless network; and a primary device short range communications system coupled to the primary device controller; a secondary mobile device including; a secondary device controller including at least one processor, for controlling operation of the secondary mobile device; a secondary device storage element coupled to the secondary device controller for storing provisioning data for the primary mobile device including service data used by the primary mobile device for communicating over the wireless network; and a secondary device short range communications system coupled to the secondary device controller for exchanging signals with the primary device short range communications system; the primary device controller and the secondary device controller being collectively operable to establish a communication link between the primary and secondary mobile devices through the primary device short range communications system and the secondary device short range communication system, and to provision the primary mobile device by sending at least some of the service data stored on the secondary device storage element through the communication link, and store the service data sent through the communication link on the primary device storage element, and wherein the primary device controller is operable to automatically determine if selected data stored on the primary device storage element that corresponds to the provisioning data has been erased or corrupted and, after establishment of the communications link, send a request to the secondary mobile device to provision the primary mobile device with the provisioning data.