Apple Inc.

Rohan C Malthankar

Rafael L Rivera-Barreto

Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli

Krisztian Kiss

Li Li

Arun Godfrey Mathias

Ajoy K Singh

Lakshmi N Kavuri

Samy Touati

Najeeb M Abdulrahiman

Muthukumaran Dhanapal

Madhusudan Chaudhary

Thanigaivelu Elangovan

Rajesh Ambati

Raghuveer Mallikarjunan

Ajay Singh

Chandiramohan Vasudevan

Farouk Belghoul

Francisco J Gonzalez

Sherman X Jin

Divyaprakash P Bhojkumar

Raj S Chaugule

Sergey Sitnikov

Samuel J Miller

Tarik Tabet

Prashant H Vashi

Faraz Faheem

Anish Kumar Goyal

Sarma V Vangala

Sreevalsan Vallath

Teck Yang Lee

Harshit Chuttani

Vijay Venkataraman

Viswanath Nagarajan

Keith Walter Rauenbuehler

Andreas Edgar Schobel

Jean-Marc Padova

Thomas Francis Pauly

Ziv Wolkowicki

Vivek Ramanna

Christopher Paul Saari

Jared S Grubb

Jesus A Gutierrez Gomez

Yogesh D Karandikar

Saran Krishnaswamy

Dawei Zhang

Patrick L Coffman

Srinivasan Nimmala

Ayman Fawzy Naguib

Huarui Liang

Christian W Mucke

Cesar Perez

Ioannis Pefkianakis

Franco Travostino

Juergen H Kreuchauf

Ben-Heng Juang

Shivani Suresh Babu

Jason A Novak

Babar Qaisrani

Swapna V Iyer

Henri S Berger

Geoffrey R Hall

Vladimir M Appel

Eric Zelenka

Sumit Saxena

Delziel J Fernandes

Can Xiong

Haijing Hu

Li Su

Longda Xing

Sree Ram Kodali

Srirang Ashok Lovlekar

Murtaza A Shikari

Xiangying Yang

Robert D Watson

Biljana Badic

Cahya Adiansyah Masputra

Christopher M Garrido

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Sudeep Manithara Vamanan

Carola Faronius

Shu Guo

Utkarsh Kumar

Lijia Zhang

Luciano Miguel Verger

Prateek Sharma

Deepankar Bhattacharjee

Albert Riley Howard

Gregory Robert Burns

Alan Tseng

Ian J Baird

Clive Edward Rodgers

Christopher Aaron Volkert

Ariane Cotte

Mona Agnel

Christoph Paasch

Sanjay K Verma

Vijendrakumar K Ashiwal

Keizo Marui

Ryan A Williams

The described embodiments set forth techniques for transferring an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) with the same integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) value from a source mobile wireless device to a target mobile wireless device directly with a mobile network operator (MNO) provisioning server. The target mobile wireless device downloads the eSIM from the MNO provisioning server after deletion of the eSIM on the source mobile wireless device and reassignment of the eSIM with the same ICCID value to the target mobile wireless device.

Direct eSIM transfer between wireless devices

This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to determine whether to display an indicator of millimeter wave cellular availability. A wireless device may establish a radio resource control connection that includes connectivity with a fifth generation new radio millimeter wave cell. The wireless device may determine to display an indication of millimeter wave cell availability. The wireless device may determine location status information and motion status information for the wireless device. The wireless device may determine when to cease displaying the indication of millimeter wave cell availability after the radio resource control connection is released or the millimeter wave cell is deconfigured based at least in part on the location status information for the wireless device and the motion status information for the wireless device.

Determining whether to display an indicator of millimeter wave cellular availability

Techniques described herein may enable a user equipment (UE) to optimize radio access technology (RAT) and radio resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWPs)) when communicating with the network. This may be based on one or more factors or conditions, such as whether the UE is currently using 4th generation (4G) RAT or 5th generation (5G) RAT, whether the UE is in an active mode or idle mode, a BWP used by the UE, whether an application or network service requires a certain throughput, a type of application being used by the UE, an amount of network congestion, and so on. RAT optimization may also be based on whether the UE is using a frequency range 1 (FR1) or frequency range 2 (FR2), whether the UE is stationary or moving, whether the UE is experiencing beam failures, uplink (UL) switches, link quality measurements (LQMs), reference signal received power (RSRP) measurements, and so on.

Systems, methods, and devices for optimizing radio access technology and resource selection

Embodiments described herein relate to managing access to 5G cellular baseband resources for 5G-capable wireless devices. A wireless device can monitor application workloads by analyzing communication network performance requirements for a given application in-use or launching for future use along with system-level indications of overall device usage, battery level, and mobility status to determine whether access to 5G cellular baseband resources is recommended for an application. A 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is provided for an application indicating a level of bandwidth in current use or expected for future use as well as a confidence metric in the bandwidth level indication. The 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is used with additional device criteria to determine whether access to one or more 5G radio frequency bands is allowed.

Smart data mode for 5G wireless devices

This Application describes mechanisms for enterprise remote management of cellular services provided via access credentials, e.g., subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and/or electronic SIMs (eSIMs), for wireless devices. To minimize requirements for user interaction, installation and management of business-supplied cellular service profiles on the wireless device can intercept alert notifications to reduce interruptions and allow for background management of the business-supplied cellular service profiles. Additionally, a business enterprise can use multiple, distinct services to initiate installation of an eSIM to a wireless device. When two different services attempt to install eSIMs on the wireless device in parallel, management software on the wireless device can control an order of installation and disallow duplicate installations of an identical eSIM to the wireless device. The management software can also monitor eSIM installations and manage alert notifications that occur during the eSIM installation process.

Enterprise remote management for cellular services

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

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for emergency communications (e.g., voice calls and/or SMS messages) for UE's without cellular coverage (e.g., in non-cellular coverage). A UE may establish, while out of range of cellular service, a peer-to-peer communication session with a relay UE using a channel in an unlicensed frequency band. The UE may transmit, using the peer-to-peer communication session, an emergency notification to the relay UE. The emergency notification may include an approximate location of the UE. Further the UE may communicate with a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), where the communications may be relayed between the UE and the PSAP by the relay UE. The approximate location of the UE may be based, at least in part, on a location of the relay UE and determining the approximate location of the UE may include performing a ranging procedure with the relay UE.

Emergency communication in non-cellular coverage

This disclosure relates to techniques for providing a framework for supporting custom signaling between a wireless device and a cellular network. A wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a wireless link. The wireless device and the cellular base station may perform custom signaling in accordance with the custom signaling framework.

Framework for supporting custom signaling between a wireless device and a cellular network

The exemplary embodiments relate to a user equipment configured to connect to a network that supports simultaneous connection to a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT. The UE may receive coverage information associated with the first RAT and a cell of the second RAT, receive an indication of the current UE location relative to the cell of the second RAT and determine whether the first RAT is available for camping based on the coverage information and the indication of the current UE location relative to the cell of the second RAT.

Identifying new radio coverage availability in non-standalone mode

This Application describes mechanisms for enterprise remote management of cellular services provided via access credentials, e.g., subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and/or electronic SIMS (eSIMs), for wireless devices. To minimize requirements for user interaction, installation and management of business-supplied cellular service profiles on the wireless device can intercept alert notifications to reduce interruptions and allow for background management of the business-supplied cellular service profiles. Additionally, a business enterprise can use multiple, distinct services to initiate installation of an eSIM to a wireless device. When two different services attempt to install eSIMs on the wireless device in parallel, management software on the wireless device can control an order of installation and disallow duplicate installations of an identical eSIM to the wireless device. The management software can also monitor eSIM installations and manage alert notifications that occur during the eSIM installation process.

Some embodiments relate to methods and systems for initiating and transferring cellular subscription service using associated cellular communication devices. Cellular service may be initiated for a first cellular communication device via a second cellular communication device. The first cellular communication device may be provisioned to operate in an independent mode. In other scenarios, cellular service may be transferred from the first cellular communication device operating in independent mode to a third cellular communication device, which may be provisioned to operate in independent mode.

Mechanism to activate and manage a standalone device for cellular service

A network component communicating with a user equipment (UE) and a server. The network component receives a first packet from the UE, wherein the first packet indicates to the network component that the network component is to perform operations on behalf of the UE to maintain a persistent connection, receives a second packet from the server and determines whether to transmit a signal to the UE based on the second packet received from the server. A UE having a transceiver and a processor. The UE transmits a first packet to the network component, wherein the first packet indicates to the network component that the network component is to perform operations on behalf of the UE to maintain a persistent connection, identifies an out of service (OOS) event, receives registration information from the network component and registers with the server based on the registration information received from the network component.

Managing a persistent connection using a network component

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Rohan C Malthankar