Patent ID: 7353017

Claim:
A method in a device for provisioning the device with information for subscribing to a service provided by a service provider via a wireless network, the device having a service provider store, the method comprising: providing in the service provider store auto-provisioning information for a plurality of service providers that support auto-provisioning of devices; scanning for a visible service provider that supports auto-provisioning as indicated by the service provider store; retrieving service description information from the visible service provider; selecting a service based on the retrieved service description information; notifying the visible service provider of the selection of the service; receiving from the visible service provider provisioning information for the selected service; and storing in the service provider store the received provisioning information so that the device can access the selected service of the service provider based on the provisioning information of the service provider store, wherein the device includes a global system mobile card and the service provider store is contained within a subscriber identity module, wherein the scanning identifies a plurality of visible service providers, and wherein the retrieving of service description information includes selecting a user-selected one of the plurality of visible service providers and receiving a description of a service of the visible service provider and an indication of information to collect from a user to subscribe to the service.