Christopher Smith
BlackBerry Limited
33 Papers
1.1K Citations
Christopher Smith is an academic researcher from BlackBerry Limited. The author has contributed to research in topics: Provisioning & Service provider. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 33 publications.
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Papers
Patent
Method and system for provisioning wireless services
Christopher Smith,David P. Kruis,Ian M. Patterson +2 more
- 27 Oct 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method for provisioning wireless devices for use of services offered by a service provider on a wireless network, comprising: receiving at a provisioning system from a wireless devices a wireless device identifier, the wireless device having a first subset of the services; identifying from the device identifier a subscriber associated with the wireless devices, the subscriber having a second subset of services; and, if the first and second subsets conflict, enabling none, one, or both of the first subsets of services in accordance with conflict resolution information for the service provider.
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System and methods for provisioning a service for a communication device
David P. Kruis,Barry J. Gilhuly,Christopher Smith +2 more
- 26 May 2004
TL;DR: In this article, a system for provisioning an associated service for a mobile device is described, which allows a user to access a primary service and, optionally, one or more additional services through a mobile handheld device.
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Device-based Network Service Provisioning
Christopher Smith,David P. Kruis,Robert Kline +2 more
- 29 Dec 2009
TL;DR: In this article, a device-based network service provisioning model is provided in which a wireless device facilitates a subscriber to provide provisioning information for activating carrier, value-added or other service provider services automatically.
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Methods and systems for identifying content elements
Alexander Sherkin,Peter Gordon Beshai,Viera Bibr,Christopher Smith,Kamen B. Vitanov +4 more
- 20 Sep 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, a method of identifying content of interest in a structured electronic document by an electronic device having a processor, an input device, and a display device, is presented.
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System and method for triggering a provisioning event
Christopher Smith
- 18 Aug 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, a provisioning system may be used to receive the provisioning request message from the external system and transmit information in the provisioned request message to the service provider to trigger the event.
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