Wireless Service Initiation System With Delayed Number Porting
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Solution Overview
Problem
The purchase of wireless devices over the Internet is technologically challenging due to the need to activate wireless service and port a telephone number from an existing device, often requiring simultaneous actions that inconvenience users who want to delay number porting for data transfer.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows customers to separate the activation of wireless service from the porting of a contact designation, such as a telephone number, enabling a customer-defined delay between service activation and number porting, using a service initiation application that communicates with carrier servers through APIs to facilitate both processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If wireless service activation and number porting are performed simultaneously, then the service activation process is completed efficiently, but the user cannot delay number porting to transfer contact information and data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the service activation process into two separate operations: service activation and number porting. The service activation can be performed immediately to provide wireless service, while the number porting operation is separated and can be executed at a later time when the user has transferred their contact information and data. This segmentation allows independent control of each operation's timing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables users to perform preliminary actions (transferring contact information and data) before executing the number porting operation. The system allows service activation to occur first, giving the user time to prepare their data, and then the number porting can be initiated at a convenient later time rather than requiring immediate execution.
2Ease of operation
If number porting is delayed for data transfer, then user convenience is improved, but the service activation process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the service activation system with delayed porting capability) that mediates between the user's need to transfer data and the carrier's need to activate service. This intermediary allows the system to manage the timing difference between service activation and number porting without requiring complex user coordination or manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables the system to automatically manage the delayed number porting process without requiring continuous user intervention. Once the user initiates the delayed porting request, the system handles the timing coordination, data transfer preparation, and execution of the porting operation automatically, reducing the perceived complexity for the user.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are various embodiments for implementing wireless service for a wireless device. In a representative embodiment, a service initiation system is executed in a computing device that communicates with a service provider system over a network to activate a wireless service associated with a newly purchased wireless device. The service initiation system also generates a network page to send to a client over the network, where the network page has a component that initiates a porting of a contact designation associated with a prior wireless device to the newly purchased wireless device separate from the activation of the wireless service for the newly purchased wireless device.