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Preventing deregistration from fleet accounts

US9021069B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 27, 2012
Grant dateApr 28, 2015
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Expiry dateOct 24, 2032

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W12/77
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for managing access to a fleet account of mobile electronic devices. For instance, an administrator of a business and educational institution may place an order with an offering service to purchase a large number of eBook reader devices. The offering service identifies that the business and educational institution is ordering a fleet of devices. Furthermore, each of the devices ordered are associated or registered to a managed or fleet account controlled by the administrator of the business and educational institution. The techniques described herein prevent an individual user of a fleet device from de-registering the device from the managed account, and also allow an account administrator to alter preferred settings of the managed account. Further, techniques are described for allowing a user of a device to opt-in or associate their device with the account.

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