Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Temic Automotive of North America, Inc.

John David Bruner

Shai Guday

Jeffrey B Kay

Donald J Remboski

Mahendra D Sekaran

Gursharan Singh Sidhu

Juergen Reinold

Anish Desai

Calvin Choe

Jean Khawand

Anand Muthurajan

Sohail A Hirani

Thomas W Kuehnel

Rod G Fleck

Boris Klots

Lawrence Marvin Ecklund

Larry C Puhl

Steven F Gillig

Whay Chiou Lee

Ezzat A Dabbish

Humayun Mukhtar Khan

Walton L Fehr

Gregory James Scott

Taqi Jaffri

Jurgen Reinold

John K Grosspietsch

Vadim Draluk

Xin Liu

Mansoor Jafry

Charles A Backof, Jr

Steven D Bromley

Scott E Preece

Ray Froelich

Wael Jendli

Jeffrey J Malvern

Denis A Petushkov

Eugen Pajor

Sapna Mahendra Bafna

Harish Prabandham

Rahul Sharma

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Dhigha D Sekaran

Sankaran Narayanan

Namendra Kumar

Yongyong Xu

Samuel M Levenson

Krishnan Ananthanarayanan

Amey Parandekar

Abhilash Chandrasekharan Nair

Vishal Soni

James Blake Bullock

David Garfield Thaler, Iii

Frank Stephen Serdy, Jr

Sandilya Garimella

Eric S Hamilton

Kerry Woolsey

Reid Joseph Kuhn

John D Skovron

Ganapathy V Raman

Richard Mark Clayton

Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy

Gaurav Pancholi

Dmitri R Latypov

Tript Singh Lamba

Sandeep Rangarajan

Ramkumar Natarajan

Tony Bell

Ken Wolfe

Samual M Levenson

Marc Means

Nathaniel David Roberts

Richard Allen Pace

Eric Edward Payne

Bayo Olatunji

Andrew Peter Schoorl

Venu M Chukkapalli

Baba Srinivasan

Jianliang Zhao

Connection settings used by a mobile device to connect to a packet data network, e.g. the internet, are stored in a subscriber identity module (SIM) card. This enables connection settings to be pre-loaded on a SIM card, allowing a mobile device to immediately connect to the internet without manual configuration. The mobile device's connection settings may also be updated by a mobile network operator via an over the air profile update. For example, the operator may supply a device with connection settings the first time it connects to the network. Connection settings may be stored in one or more files within the SIM profile, and may be updated via a remote file management operation. Embedded-SIM (eSIM) profiles may also store connection settings in profile metadata, which may be updated via a metadata update operation.

Just in time connection configuration stored in SIM profile

A temporary EID (TEID) is generated based on an indicator of a hash algorithm, a nonce, and a hash generated using the hash algorithm. The hash is generated based on the indicator, nonce, and EID of a mobile device. The TEID is sent to the mobile network operator to identify the mobile device in lieu of using the device's EID. The TEID is stored in a data store and an eSIM profile for the mobile device is associated the TEID. The mobile device sends to an eSIM server the device's EID over a secure communications channel. The eSIM server generates a hash using the indicator and nonce contained in the stored TEID and the EID of the mobile device. The eSIM server verifies that the generated hash matches the hash contained in the TEID stored in the data store. If the hash matches, the eSIM server sends, to the mobile device, subscription credentials for accessing the mobile network in accordance with the data plan.

Privacy-enhanced method for linking an eSIM profile

Mobile devices are provisioned that do not have a direct communications path to a data network. A proximate device is discovered that is available for connecting to the mobile device via a peer-to-peer connection. The proximate device is determined to be trusted by the mobile device and usable to communicate to the data network A peer-to-peer connection is established with the proximate device. Identification data is provided to the proximate device, and an activation code is received. The mobile device communicates to the mobile network operator indicated by the activation code. Subscription credentials are received for accessing a mobile network operated by the mobile network operator.

ESIM profile discovery

Sets of drones are deployed to create an ad-hoc 5G network in a physical environment to collect sensor data and generate a map of the physical environment in real time. Master drones configured with 5G capabilities are deployed to the physical area to create the 5G ad-hoc network, and swarm drones configured with sensors are deployed to gather environmental data on the physical environment. The gathered data is transmitted to the master drones to generate a map. The deployable 5G network is leveraged to identify precise locations for the swarm drones and each instance of sensor data collected by the swarm drones in order to create an accurate and detailed map of the environment. The map can include information regarding the structural layout of the space and environmental characteristics, such as temperature, the presence of smoke or other gases, etc.

Precision mapping using autonomous devices

A mobile local computing device is configured to access memories or storage devices associated with a remote computing device using remote direct memory access (RDMA) over a wireless fifth generation (5G) network link that provides high bandwidth and low latency relative to previous wireless network protocols. The mobile local computing device utilizes a local compute context that is unique to the local environment and which may be facilitated by devices, components, or functionalities that are local to the mobile local computing device, but which are not available with the same context to the remote computing device. The 5G network link supports high bandwidth and low latency so that the mobile local computing device can access and utilize the remote data in large datasets in a similar manner to how it would for locally stored data, while still being able to leverage the local I/O and maintain its unique local compute context.

Mobile remote direct memory access

Mobile devices are provisioned that do not have a direct communications path to a data network. A proximate device is discovered that is available for connecting to the mobile device via a peer-to-peer connection. The second device is determined to be trusted by the mobile device and usable to communicate to the data network A peer-to-peer connection is established with the proximate device. Identification data is provided to the proximate device, and an activation code is received. The mobile device, via the peer-to-peer connection, communicates to the mobile network operator indicated by the activation code. Subscription credentials are received for accessing a mobile network operated by the mobile network operator.

eSIM profile discovery

Mobile devices are provisionally registered when the mobile device does not have an active subscription profile. A communications session is established with an access network of a mobile communications network. Identification data for the computing device is sent to the access network. A connectivity configuration is used to allow the computing device to establish a limited connection on the mobile communications network. Using the limited connection, an eSIM profile is received. The eSIM profile is activated and the device is connected to an associated mobile network.

Provisional device registration

Identities of mobile communications devices and subscription credentials are maintained by an enterprise server. The subscription credentials are operative to enable access to subscription services of a mobile network operator. Control of the subscription credentials is delegated from the mobile network operator to the enterprise server. The enterprise server determines which of the mobile communications devices are to be provisioned by the subscription credentials. Policies for use of the subscription credentials by the determined mobile communications devices are identified. The subscription credentials and policies are applied to the mobile communications devices.

Delegated profile and policy management

Techniques for managing a plurality of mobile communications devices by an enterprise server are described. The mobile communications devices may be configured to communicate on a mobile communications network operated by a mobile network operator. A communicative link is established with a proxy interface configured to implement a standardized interface for exchanging information between the enterprise and the mobile network operator. Data is received by the enterprise server via the proxy interface. The data is associated with subscription services for a plurality of mobile communications devices that are operable on the mobile communications network. The subscription services are associated with the mobile network operator. Requests are sent by the enterprise server via the proxy interface. The requests are for updating the subscription services of the mobile network operator.

Enterprise gateway to mobile operator

Mobile communications devices are provisioned using unique device information. A request may be received by a device from an application executing on the device. The request may be for unique identification data for an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) installed on the device. In response to the request, the device may access the unique identification data from a persistent storage of the computing device. The unique identification data may be provided to the requesting application via an interface.

eSIM identification data

Signaling from a mobile device is transparently tunneled through a cellular voice network to a Voice over Internet Protocol ('VoIP') core network so that multi-party calls, including conference calls and call waiting, can be managed entirely within the VoIP core network. The tunneled signals enable call control to be implemented in the VoIP core network and also establish a way to communicate requests, instructions, and call state. The signaling is transparent to the cellular network because that network does not receive and interpret the signaling. Instead, the cellular network's existing and unmodified control plane is repurposed by the mobile device by placing new, brief outgoing calls through the cellular network to the VoIP core network where the called party number (i.e., the caller-ID) encodes specific information. The VoIP core network immediately releases the new cellular call once the caller-ID is received and the encoded information is interpreted.

Tunneling VoIP call control on cellular networks

A system is disclosed that provides network resource access to applications and/or services based on a purpose or intent. Network resources may be assigned one or more purpose identifiers that indicate the network resource can handle a defined type of data transfer and/or use. Applications request connections based on the purpose required for the connections by including a corresponding purpose identifier in the request. In response to the request, the applications receive connection profiles which abstract the specific configurations for connection to the network resources. The applications connect to the network resources via the connection profiles but without knowledge of the configuration data.

Providing network resource access based on a purpose identifier

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