Patent ID: 7860972

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for detecting and eliminating duplicate wireless mobile communications device identifiers stored in user administration records associated with a server system, each of the user administration records including a wireless mobile communications device activation time, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at the server, information for registering a user account for a wireless mobile communications device; and while the user account is pending to the server, wherein the user account is pending to the server when a corresponding user administration record has been added to the server but the wireless communication device has not been connected to a host system or network workstation to download required routing information, performing the steps of: checking the identifier of the wireless mobile communications device stored in the user administration record against other existing user administration records to detect duplicate identifiers associated with different account holders; and if a duplicate of the identifier is detected in one of the other existing user administration records, then comparing the activation time in the user administration record with the activation time in the one of the other existing user administration records, and resetting the identifier in the user administration record or the one of the other existing user administration records based on a result of the comparison of the activation times.