Apple Inc.

Other

Anish Kumar Goyal

Li Li

Raj S Chaugule

Rohan C Malthankar

Samy Touati

Rafael L Rivera-Barreto

Wanping Zhang

Tahir Shamim

Abishek Kumar Vaidyanathan

Jianxiong Shi

Sherman X Jin

Zexing Shi

Chandra S Chetty

Vladimir M Appel

Keizo Marui

Elliot S Briggs

Srinivasan Nimmala

Vijay Venkataraman

Xiangying Yang

Madhusudan Chaudhary

Lakshmi N Kavuri

Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli

Venkateswara Rao Manepalli

Thanigaivelu Elangovan

Yifan Zhu

Vitalii Kramar

Raghuveer Mallikarjunan

Deepankar Bhattacharjee

Chandiramohan Vasudevan

Francisco J Gonzalez

Sanjay K Verma

Gahima S Mbonye

Chenzhi Yu

An Chan

Abhishek A Bhonsle

Xuqiang Hua

Abdul-Munem Ai-Khudairi

Ryan Booth

Soo Young Lee

This Application sets forth techniques for cellular service management for a secondary mobile wireless device assisted by a primary mobile wireless device, including provisioning and management of electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) for a secondary mobile wireless device with user authorization obtained via the primary mobile wireless device.

Cellular service management for secondary mobile wireless devices

Apparatus and methods to transfer user preferences for cellular wireless service associated credentials transferred from a source device to a target device. Transfer of credentials can include physically moving a physical subscriber identity module (SIM) card between devices, transfer of cellular wireless service from a first SIM card at the source device to a second SIM card at the target device, and/or transfer of cellular wireless services for one or more electronic SIMs (eSIMs) from the source device to the target device. Preferences associated with some or all of the transferred SIMs/eSIMs can be applied at the target device when certain matching criteria are satisfied. Exemplary matching criteria include matching identifiers, such as integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) values, mobile station international subscriber directory number (MSISDN) values, and/or mappings thereof. Transfer of preferences can occur via a local peer-to-peer connection, a secure cloud-based service, and/or a backup and restore process.

Cellular wireless service preferences transfer

This Application sets forth techniques for cellular wireless service management for a secondary mobile wireless device assisted by a primary mobile wireless device, including delayed delivery of an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) to the secondary mobile wireless device for subscription to cellular wireless service of a mobile network operator (MNO).

Postponed eSIM delivery to secondary mobile wireless device for cellular wireless service subscription

This Application describes mechanisms to transfer cellular service plans and associated credentials efficiently between wireless devices. Information regarding transferability of cellular services for SIMs/eSIMs to a wireless device are obtained from locally stored or remotely accessible cellular service information and/or associated mobile network operator (MNO) information. Access to network-based servers to determine transferability and/or to effect transfer can use non-cellular connections when available. Transferability information can be presented to a user to narrow selection of cellular service plans to transfer.

Methods and apparatus for efficient transfer of multiple cellular service credentials

Embodiments described herein relate to transfer of credentials between two mobile wireless devices that are within proximity of each other, via a secure local connection, or via a network-based cloud service, where the two mobile wireless devices are not in proximity to each other. Transfer of credentials can include communication between a source device, a target device, and/or one more network-based servers, which can include mobile network operator (MNO) managed servers, such as an entitlement server, a web-sheet server, an authentication server, a provisioning server, a subscription management data preparation (SM-DP+) server, a home subscriber server (HSS), and/or an authentication server, as well as third-party managed servers, such as a cloud service server and/or an identification services server. Authentication can be based at least in part on one or more tokens and/or a trust flag obtained by the source device and provided to the target device.

Cellular service account transfer and authentication

This Application describes efficient cellular service transfer mechanisms to move cellular services that are based on cellular service credentials, e.g., eSIMs, between accessory wireless devices under various scenarios, including in some embodiments transfer of multiple eSIMs. The first and second accessory wireless devices and the primary wireless device are associated with a common user account. Transfer of credentials for cellular service access can occur between two accessory wireless devices via the primary wireless device, where the primary wireless device and the accessory wireless devices interact with applicable network-based servers.

Cellular service account transfer for accessory wireless devices

Apparatus and methods to transfer user preferences for cellular wireless service associated credentials transferred from a source device to a target device. Transfer of credentials can include physically moving a physical subscriber identity module (SIM) card between devices, transfer of cellular wireless service from a first SIM card at the source device to a second SIM card at the target device, and/or transfer of cellular wireless services for one or more electronic SIMs (eSIMs) from the source device to the target device. Preferences associated some or all of the transferred SIMs/eSIMs can be applied at the target device when certain matching criteria of the SIMs/eSIMs are satisfied. Exemplary matching criteria include matching identifiers, such as integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) values, mobile station international subscriber directory number (MSISDN) values, and/or mappings thereof. Transfer of preferences can occur via a local peer-to-peer connection, a secure cloud-based service, and/or a backup and restore process.

A method performed by a station that includes receiving information from a cell of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), determining whether the information indicates the cell supports circuit switched fallback (CSFB) voice calls, when the CSFB voice calls are not supported, determining whether at least one packet switched voice property of the station satisfies a predetermined condition and attaching to the cell of the PLMN when the predetermined condition is satisfied. A further method performed by a station connected to a PLMN that includes identifying cells of the PLMN available for the station to camp on, determining whether the station is capable of executing packet switched calls, when the station is not capable of executing packet switched calls, determining whether the identified cells have a neighbor cell that supports CSFB voice calls and prioritizing the cells that are identified as having neighbor cells that support CSFB voice calls.

Station and method for LTE only attach optimization

This application sets forth techniques for provisioning electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) to mobile wireless devices that do not include functional bootstrap provisioning profiles to obtain access to a cellular wireless network. Connectivity to a cellular wireless network can be allowed for provisioning one or more eSIMs to a mobile wireless device using hardware device identifiers for authentication and a limited purpose provisioning connection when the cellular wireless network supports provisioning connections without the use of a provisioning profile for access.

Provisioning electronic subscriber identity modules to mobile wireless devices

Embodiments described herein relate to mechanisms for error recovery during transfer of cellular service credentials between two mobile wireless devices. Transfer of credentials includes communication between a source device, a target device, and/or one more network-based servers. Authentication can be based on one or more tokens obtained by the source device and provided to the target device. Error recovery can include using redirection to different servers, providing alternative information for authentication, and storage and subsequent retrieval of information to restart or complete a credential transfer process.

Cellular service account transfer error recovery mechanisms

Growing community of inventors

Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Anish Kumar Goyal