Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-05
2005-07-05
Lee, Young (Department: 2613)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
C455S445000, C455S560000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06915132
ABSTRACT:
A method and system automatically activates a mobile station in a wireless communications network. The system includes an over the air activation function (OTAF) processor in the network that initiates an activation process in response to receiving a registration message from a mobile switching center serving the mobile station requesting the activation. Each mobile station has a unit of information stored into it at the time of its manufacture to enable it to request over the air activation. That unit of information is either the network routing address of the OTAF processor, or alternately, it is a value that is translatable into that address, either an OTAF ID number that is the same value for every mobile station or it is a sequentially serialized dummy value for the mobile identification number (a dummy MIN). When the mobile station is turned on for the first time in the network, it requests activation over the air by transmitting to the local mobile switching center a registration order. The registration order will include one of the three alternative forms of the information unit described above, either the routing address of the OTAF processor, or the OTAF ID number, or a dummy MIN.
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Chatterjee Arun K.
Daly Brian Kevin
Holmes David William James
Leuca Ileana A.
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
Lee Young
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