Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Apple Inc.

Samy Touati

Rohan C Malthankar

Rafael L Rivera-Barreto

Li Li

Anish Kumar Goyal

Raj S Chaugule

Sherman X Jin

Paolo Fiorini

Vijay Venkataraman

Krisztian Kiss

Lakshmi N Kavuri

Samita Chakrabarti

Ayush Sharma

Chenzhi Yu

Patrick L Coffman

Gunnar Mildh

Arun Godfrey Mathias

Muthukumaran Dhanapal

Madhusudan Chaudhary

Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli

Wassim Michel Haddad

Thanigaivelu Elangovan

Najeeb M Abdulrahiman

David Sugirtharaj

Zu Qiang

Rajesh Ambati

Faraz Faheem

Raghuveer Mallikarjunan

Lila Madour

Göran Hall

Teck Yang Lee

Sergey Sitnikov

Ajay Singh

Vivek Ramanna

Samuel J Miller

Anders Lundstrom

Divyaprakash P Bhojkumar

Oleg M Moskalenko

Abishek Kumar Vaidyanathan

Bao Q Ho

Dawei Zhang

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Srinivasan Nimmala

Haijing Hu

Li Su

Longda Xing

Srirang Ashok Lovlekar

Sree Ram Kodali

Murtaza A Shikari

Huarui Liang

Dinand Roeland

Cahya Adiansyah Masputra

Haseeb Akhtar

Donald Joong

Francisco J Gonzalez

Victor Ferraro Esparza

Louis Segura

Babar Qaisrani

Keizo Marui

Changzheng Wu

John Barna

Gaurav Lamba

Nai Tao Cui

Bhogeswara Rao Metta

Gunnar Rydneil

Octavio Lima

Raj Sanmugam

Andre Poulin

Vinash Kaushal

Amandeep Singh Bedi

Abdus Samad

Goran Hall

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

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

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing efficient discovery of edge computing servers. A wireless device may provide an edge compute request to an edge discovery service, which may indicate one or more criteria for the edge compute request. The edge discovery service may select one or more edge application servers for the edge compute request based on edge compute resource availability profile information that it stores for multiple edge application servers and the one or more criteria for the edge compute request. The edge discovery service may provide a response to the edge compute request to the wireless device, which may include an indication of the selected edge application server or servers.

Efficient discovery of edge computing servers

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for high data mode operation in cellular networks. A UE may determine, for an interface to a high-speed cellular network, a categorization from a plurality of categorizations, determine availability of the high-speed cellular network, and select, based at least in part on the categorization and availability of the high-speed cellular network, the interface for a data connection to the high-speed cellular network. The categorization may be one of expensive or not expensive and/or one of a first level associated with a higher compression codec rate or a second level associated with a lower compression codec rate. The UE may receive, from one of the a low-speed cellular network or the high-speed cellular network, carrier plan information for a cellular data service carrier and analyze the carrier plan information to determine desirability of a switch, e.g., from the low-speed cellular network to the high-speed cellular network.

High data mode for enhanced user experience in cellular networks

Techniques for on-device enrollment of a secondary wireless device in an add-on cellular plan include receiving, at the secondary wireless device, cellular plan information for a cellular plan of a primary wireless device associated with the secondary wireless device. Based on the cellular plan information, the secondary wireless device displays an option to add the secondary wireless device to the cellular plan of the primary wireless device. A selection of the option to add the secondary wireless device to the cellular plan of the primary wireless device is received, and a request is transmitted to the primary wireless device for enrollment information for enrolling the secondary wireless device in an add-on plan of the cellular plan. The enrollment information, which includes a list of available add-on plans for the secondary wireless device or information associated with a provider of the cellular plan, is received at the secondary wireless device.

On-device enrollment in a cellular add-on plan

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

A user equipment (UE) may identify that an emergency call is being initiated and send further messages including the location of the UE. The UE receives emergency location signaling parameters, identifies that an emergency communication has been initiated by the UE based on the emergency location signaling parameters and transmits a message to an endpoint associated with emergency services based on the identification of the emergency message being initiated, wherein the message includes location information for the UE.

Providing emergency location information

Methods are provided to authorize a secondary user device for a network service provided over a network. Responsive to receiving a request from a primary user device, a voucher may be transmitted over the network to the primary user device. A request for an authorization waiver may be received from the secondary user device over the network, wherein the request for the authorization waiver includes the voucher that was transmitted to the primary user device. Responsive to receiving the request from the secondary user device including the voucher, an authorization waiver may be transmitted to the secondary user device. Related methods of operating primary and secondary user devices are also discussed.

Methods to authorizing secondary user devices for network services and related user devices and back-end systems

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

Systems and methods relating to providing identity privacy over a trusted or untrusted non-3GPP access network in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device comprises sending a message to a gateway (ePDG, N3IWF or TWAG) where the message comprises an anonymous user identity; receiving a request for obfuscating the user identity wherein the request comprises a server certificate; and validating the server certificate and sending a response message back to the gateway, comprising the user identity obfuscated by a public key associated with the server certificate. Similar methods are provided on the gateway side and AAA server side. In this manner, the user identity is protected when establishing the connection to the core network and protects against a man in the middle attack.

User identity privacy protection in public wireless local access network, WLAN, access

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Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Samy Touati