Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods, procedures and framework to provision an eSIM and make it multi-SIM capable using primary account information
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Application No.: US16121679Application Date: 2018-09-05
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Publication No.: US10470016B2Publication Date: 2019-11-05
- Inventor: Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli , Li Li , Arun G. Mathias , Najeeb M. Abdulrahiman , Chandiramohan Vasudevan , Rohan C. Malthankar , Francisco J. Gonzalez , Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto , Jean-Marc Padova
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert and Goetzel PC
- Agent Jeffrey C. Hood; Matthew C. Washburn
- Main IPC: H04B1/38
- IPC: H04B1/38 ; H04W4/60 ; H04W8/20 ; H04L29/12 ; H04W68/00 ; H04W8/18
Abstract:
Some embodiments relate to methods for provisioning a secondary wireless device with an eSIM for wireless communication and activating multi-SIM functionality between the secondary wireless device and a primary wireless device having a subscribed SIM. The primary wireless device may act as a proxy in obtaining the eSIM for the secondary wireless device. The primary wireless device may then provide, to the cellular network, identifiers of the SIMs of the primary and secondary wireless devices. The primary wireless device may then request initiation of multi-SIM functionality for the two SIMs, and receive an indication that the multi-SIM functionality has been initiated. As an example, the multi-SIM functionality may be implemented by mapping the SIM of the primary wireless device and the SIM of the secondary wireless device (e.g., the provisioned eSIM) to the same Mobile Directory Number (MDN).
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