18826931. ACTIVATION OF BROADBAND NETWORK SERVICES VIA CELLULAR NETWORK USER EQUIPMENT (Apple Inc.)

ACTIVATION OF BROADBAND NETWORK SERVICES VIA CELLULAR NETWORK USER EQUIPMENT

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Samy Touati of Pleasanton CA (US)

Elliot S. Briggs of Carmel CA (US)

Raj S. Chaugule of Santa Clara CA (US)

Rohan C. Malthankar of San Jose CA (US)

Vikrant R. Sarle of Santa Clara CA (US)

Sai Raj Karra of San Jose CA (US)

John Basacchi of San Diego CA (US)

Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli of San Ramon CA (US)

Jianwei Chen of Fremont CA (US)

Eduardo De Almeida Abrantes of Los Altos CA (US)

ACTIVATION OF BROADBAND NETWORK SERVICES VIA CELLULAR NETWORK USER EQUIPMENT

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18826931 titled 'ACTIVATION OF BROADBAND NETWORK SERVICES VIA CELLULAR NETWORK USER EQUIPMENT

Original Abstract Submitted

Systems, methods, processors, and circuitries are provided for activation of broadband network services via cellular network user equipment (UE). In some aspects, a UE includes a memory and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory, cause the UE to determine, via a cellular network, an entitlement of the UE to a service of a broadband network; generate a token for the service; create a blind token based on the token; transmit, via the cellular network to a server, the blind token for signing; receive, via the cellular network from the server, a blind signature for the blind token; unblind the blind signature to yield an unblinded signature; and store the unblinded signature and the token for subsequent access to the service.