Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Musa Kazim Guven

Zhengfang Chen

Christopher M Schmidt

Jeremy Nacer

Hakan Alparslan

Balaji L Raghavachari

Andrew E Youtz

Xin Wang

Manuel Enrique Caceres

Warren Hojilla Uy

Taussif Khan

Iftekhar Rahman

Tarun Verma

Mary Williams

Axel Hallo De Wolf

Danny C Lui

Kala Narayanan

Lily H Zhu

Sergio Aguirre

Rakesh H Chandwani

John Gu

Thomas W Mcartney

Danny Chick-Leung Lui

Erdogan Topcu

Thomas W McArtney

A user device may provide, to a network, a first request to attach to the network and a second request for management and administrative services associated with the network. The user device may receive a first response indicating whether the first request is granted. The user device may receive, when the first response indicates that the first request is granted, a second response indicating whether the second request is granted. The user device may provide to the network, when the second response indicates that the second is granted, a third request for an activation status of the user device and may receive, from the network, a third response indicating the activation status. The user device may update, based on the third response, an activation flag indicating the activation status and may provide, for display, a message indicating the activation status of the user device based on the activation flag.

Systems and methods for determining activation status for user devices

A device may receive signal information associated with a wireless signal or charge information associated with a charge level. The signal information may indicate a signal strength of the wireless signal. The charge information may indicate the charge level of a battery of the device. The device may determine whether the signal strength or the charge level satisfies a threshold. The device may configure a parameter or a setting of the device to cause the device to operate according to a long term evolution (LTE) category based on determining whether the signal strength or the charge level satisfies the threshold. The LTE category may be different from a default LTE category of the device and may define an uplink/downlink capability specification. The device may attach to a network in association with configuring the parameter or the setting to cause the device to operate according to the LTE category.

Extending signal coverage and charge duration of a user equipment

A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a certificate authority, a first onboarding identifier associated with a private key stored on the UE. The UE may transmit, to a wireless network, an attach request based on the first onboarding identifier. The UE may receive, from the wireless network, a signaling message that includes a second onboarding identifier, wherein the signaling message may be encrypted with a public key paired with the private key stored on the UE. The UE may decrypt the signaling message using the private key stored on the UE to obtain the second onboarding identifier. The UE may obtain a permanent identifier from a Remote SIM Provisioning platform based on the UE completing an authentication procedure using an authentication response obtained from the decrypted signaling message. The UE may then connect to the wireless network using the permanent identifier.

Secure onboarding of a device having an embedded universal integrated circuit card without a preloaded provisioning profile

A network device receives parameters associated with a usage profile of at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device, where the usage profile specifies a data usage pattern associated with the at least one IoT device transmitting or receiving data via a wireless network. The network device generates a device behavior profile based on the parameters associated with the usage profile, and causes the device behavior profile and an application to be sent to the at least one IoT device, where the application controls the at least one IoT device's transmission or reception via the wireless network using the device behavior profile.

IoT devices wireless network connectivity policy management

In some implementations, a device that includes an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) may enable a first subscriber identity module (SIM) profile. The first SIM profile may be installed in memory of the eUICC and associated with a first integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID). The device may request a second SIM profile based on enabling the first SIM profile. The second SIM profile may be associated with a second ICCID that is different from the first ICCID. The device may receive the second SIM profile based on requesting the second SIM profile, and may install the second SIM profile in memory of the eUICC in a disabled state. Other implementations are described herein.

Systems and methods for queueing subscriber identity module profiles on an embedded universal integrated circuit card

A method including determining whether a subscriber identification profile (SIDP) is stored within a UE; sending an initial attach request along with a default network access key to a MME, upon determining that the SIDP is not stored; receiving a first authorization in response to the initial attach request, the first authorization restricts connectivity of the UE to an M2M activation system accessed by a dedicated APN associated with the default network access key; receiving, from a subscription management system, a SIDP generated by the M2M activation system; detaching from the M2M activation system and the network; sending a second attach request to the network based on the received SIDP; and receiving a second authorization to the network in response to the second attach request; the second authorization provides unrestricted APN connectivity and access to services associated with the subscriber identification profile.

Dedicated APN access using default network access key for profile download

An embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card ('eUICC') controller may transfer wireless network service between different User Equipment ('UE') by moving or exchanging one or more profiles between the eUICC of different UEs. The eUICC controller may directly access the eUICC of the UEs in order to control eUICC profile synchronization, disabling, downloading, and/or perform other eUICC management.

Systems and methods for transferring SIM profiles between eUICC devices

Systems and methods enable remote machine-to-machine device SIM profile management without requiring a mobile terminated SMS wake-up message. A network device stores multiple profile orders for secure elements of end devices and receives an unsolicited profile query from a secure element of an end device. The secure element includes a pre-loaded power-on connection application that automatically initiates an HTTP connection with the network device when the end device is powered on or wakes up from a sleep mode, and the unsolicited profile query includes a secure element identifier. The network device conducts a search to match the secure element identifier from the unsolicited profile query with one of the multiple profile orders for the secure elements and sends profile action instructions to the secure element when there is a match between the secure element identifier from the unsolicited profile query and the one of the multiple profile orders.

Power on pulling for M2M SIM profile downloads

A method for signaling and call continuity for coverage enhancement may include selecting a cell while a user equipment (UE) device is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state, determining if a signal level from an evolved NodeB (eNodeB) associated with the cell is sufficient for normal coverage, exchanging data with a network in a normal UE device mode via the cell upon determining that the signal level is sufficient for normal coverage, determining if a signal level from the eNodeB associated with the cell is sufficient for enhanced coverage upon determining that the signal level is not sufficient for normal coverage, and exchanging data with the network in an enhanced UE device mode via the cell upon determining that the signal level is sufficient for enhanced coverage.

Coverage enhancement having call continuity

A method including determining whether a subscriber identification profile (SIDP) is stored within a UE; sending an initial attach request along with a default network access key to a MME, upon determining that the SIDP is not stored; receiving a first authorization to attach to the network in response to the initial attach request, the first authorization restricts connectivity of the UE to an M2M activation system accessed by a dedicated APN associated with the default network access key; receiving, from a subscription management system, a SIDP generated by the M2M activation system; detaching from the M2M activation system and the network; sending a second attach request to the network based on the received SIDP; and receiving a second authorization to the network in response to the second attach request; the second authorization provides unrestricted APN connectivity and access to services associated with the subscriber identification profile.

A system may receive, from a dongle device ('dongle'), a connection request to receive mobile communication service ('service') associated with a service campaign (&#x201c;campaign&#x201d;) for a mobile device: the mobile device being associated with a first service provider (&#x201c;SP&#x201d;); the dongle being associated with a second SP and the campaign; the dongle being configured to provide the service from the second SP to the mobile device; and the connection request including a dongle device identifier (&#x201c;identifier&#x201d;) associated with the dongle. The system may compare the identifier with stored identifiers associated with the campaign. The system may determine that the identifier is associated with the campaign if the identifier matches one of the stored identifiers and may cause a connection to be established to provide the service to the mobile device via the dongle based on the identifier being associated with the campaign.

Providing mobile communication service using a dongle device

A device may detect a trigger associated with a vehicle. The device may determine registration information, associated with the vehicle, based on detecting the trigger. The registration information may include information associated with a user device associated with the vehicle. The device may determine that the user device is not within a particular distance of the vehicle. The device may provide, to the user device and based on determining that the user device is not within the particular distance of the vehicle, an alert associated with the vehicle. The alert may be provided via a communications network. The device may determine, after providing the alert to the user device, that an action, associated with the vehicle, is to be performed. The device may cause the action, associated with the vehicle, to be performed.

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