A method and system for payments for mobile phone payments with a disabling feature is disclosed. The method includes activating a mobile phone containing contactless payment systems, and having a timeout feature disable the contactless payment systems after a set period of time.

This application discloses a service processing method for a proximity service, a device, and a system, and relates to the field of wireless communication technologies, to resolve a problem such as inappropriate charging caused because a network side does not perform, in proximity service (ProSe) communication, service supervision or service management on a data packet transmitted by remote user equipment (UE) via relay UE. In this application, a first network element (for example, an access and mobility management function AMF network element or a session management function SMF network element) may obtain, based on relay information that is received from the remote UE and that includes a relay service code or first indication information indicating that the remote UE is to transmit a service in relay mode, policy configuration information for detecting or monitoring service data forwarded by the relay UE.

A method and system for the purchase and activation of services on a wireless device are provided. The method and system include the use of an airtime card with a near field communication tag with a unique identifier code used to improve a user's experience and ease of activation/provisioning of services for the wireless device. In some aspects, the unique identifier may be generated during the activation and purchase of the wireless service and it is not required that the unique identifier code be recorded in a backend system of the wireless provider prior to activation. The services to be purchased and activated may include at least one of the following: out of the box activation, device upgrades, device reactivations, wireless number changes, wireless number porting, and the addition or purchasing of services including airtime, data, and/or SMS enrollments or data content.

This application provide a service guarantee method and apparatus. The method is applied to a scenario in which a remote terminal device accesses a network via a relay device. The method includes: A PCC rule generated by a policy control network element based on subscription data of the remote terminal device includes a second quality of service QoS parameter of a second communication interface between the remote terminal device and the relay device, so that a session management network element can generate, according to the received PCC rule, a second QoS rule corresponding to the second communication interface, and the session management network element can send the second QoS rule to the relay device. The QoS rule required by the second communication interface is generated based on the subscription data of the remote terminal device, and the remote terminal device can access a service via the relay device.

There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a transceiver; a local user display; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: locate via the transceiver at least one nearby device; receive observational profile information for the nearby device; and display on the local user display information about the nearby device's observation abilities.

Methods and devices for supporting charging relating to a group transmission in a wireless communication network. The group transmission involving a group of wireless devices configured to, via one or more direct communication links between each other, participate in transmission of user data between a source wireless device and the network. It is obtained, for each one of wireless devices of the group, a data amount indicator indicating how much data the wireless device has been involved in transmitting as part of the group transmission. It is provided one or more reports based on the obtained data amount indicators to one or more core network nodes.

A 5G network may support path switch mechanisms from a direct path to an indirect path to the network, and vice versa. Methods and systems are disclosed for performing the path switching process.

A communication device (100; 100a) has a processing device (110), a user interface (120), and a short-range wireless communication transceiver (130). The short- range wireless communication transceiver (130) is configured for receiving a short- range wireless communication signal (S) from another communication device (100b). The processing device (110) is configured for reading a communication identifier (CI) of the received short-range wireless communication signal (S), determining - based on the communication identifier (CI) - a particular audio/visual/audiovisual media content (140a) among a plurality of possible media contents (140), controlling the user interface (120) to present the particular media content (140a) to a user (1a) of the communication device (100; 100a), and controlling the user interface (120) to receive an input (INP) from the user (1a). Conditionally upon having received the input (INP) from the user (1a), the processing device (110) is configured for causing the communication device (100; 100a) to perform an action (ACT).

A method and system for facilitating a controlled wireless communication relationship between a first device and a second device is provided. The wireless communication relationship is established at least in part via a portion of licensed radio spectrum. A remote validation server is contacted to obtain a validated authorization to use the portion of licensed radio spectrum for radio communication. Proof of the authorization between the first device and the second device is communicated. The first device and the second device subsequently enter into an authorized wireless communication relationship.

There are provided systems and methods for leased device operations to a nearby device on detection of device inoperability. A device may detect that the device is in danger of failure, for example, if a battery is low on the device, the device is damaged, or the device runs out of available memory for storage and/or application execution. On detection of such a condition, the device may determine current processes a user is currently utilizing. The device may the cause another device to be located at or nearby the device, where the other device may be capable of continuing the processes utilized by the user. The device may then cause a token to be generated that identifies the processes and data for the processes. The token may be communicated to the other device so that on failure of the original device, the user may continue the processes.