At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

Stephen Emille Chin

Walter Cooper Chastain

Clifton Ashman Campbell

Jason Sikes

James Hamilton

Brian Keith Rainer

David K Smith

Shih-Ming Wang

David Harber

Ismaila Wane

Charles Jamile Hamadi

Samuel King

Michael Suozzo

Nicholas Vondrak

Scott Inlow

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a first bootstrap profile on a first communication device, and detecting a second bootstrap profile on a second communication device. Further aspects can include determining the first bootstrap profile and the second bootstrap profile are a same bootstrap profile, and providing limited services to the second communication device according to the first communication device and the second communication device having the same bootstrap profile. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for providing subscription services to a communication device that shares an operational profile with another communication device

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages reuse of mobile subscriber identity information. Further aspects may include mobile subscriber identity information used in a device having multiple device profiles indexed, directly or indirectly, by multiple k(e.g. shared secret keys). Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and apparatus for using mobile subscriber identification information for multiple device profiles for a device

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first data, determining, based on the obtaining, a likelihood that the first data will be selected for use, and storing, based on the determining indicating that the likelihood is less than a first threshold, the first data in a storage device, wherein the storage device stores a plurality of data, and wherein the plurality of data is accessed from the storage device in an amount that is less than a second threshold, the second threshold being less than 5%. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating a storage and provisioning of data

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages utilization of mobile subscriber identity information including enabling reuse of such information by a different communication device and/or re-authorizing use by a communication device that previously was authorized to utilize the information. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and apparatus for managing mobile subscriber identification information according to registration requests

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting an expiration of a subscription associated with a communication device, wherein the subscription is for services of a mobile network, and enabling an interim profile that provides the communication device with limited connectivity over the mobile network, wherein the limited connectivity facilitates communication with a subscription manager node of the mobile network. Various embodiments can include communicating with the subscription manager node to establish an active subscription for services of the mobile network and enabling an operational profile comprising subscription information associated with the active subscription. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for establishing an active subscription for services of a mobile network

A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, receive secret information and non-secret information from a secure download application function, provide a request for a first verification to a secure element where the first verification is associated with access to content and/or an application that is accessible via the secure download application function, receive the first verification which is generated by the secure element based on the secret information without providing the secret information to the secure device processor, receive the non-secret information from the secure element, and generate a second verification for the access based on the non-secret information, where the content and/or application is accessible from the secure download application function responsive to the first and second verifications. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Apparatus and method for securely managing the accessibility to content and applications

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of operational profiles that are to be shared by a plurality of devices; assigning a first operational profile of the plurality of operational profiles to a first device of the plurality of devices; assigning a second operational profile of the plurality of operational profiles to a second device of the plurality of devices; facilitating provision of the first operational profile on the first device; and facilitating provision of the second operational profile on the second device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Managing devices through use of blocks of operational profiles

A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, instructions which when executed cause a device processor to perform operations comprising sending a service request to a remote management server; receiving from the management server an authentication management function and an encryption key generator for execution by a secure element and an encryption engine for execution by a secure device processor, sending a request to establish a communication session with a remote device; and communicating with the remote device via a channel established using an application server. The secure element and the secure device processor authenticate each other using a mutual authentication keyset. The secure element, the secure device processor and the device processor each have a security level associated therewith; the security level associated with the secure device processor is intermediate between that of the secure element and that of the device processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System and methods for UICC-based secure communication

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that registers a communication device with a temporary IMSI shared among multiple communication devices with a virtual registration function. Further, the system provisions an active IMSI using a virtual Over-the-Air (OTA) function onto the communication device and indicates to the communication device to register with a registration function using the active IMSI. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for registering a communication device utilizing a virtual network

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages utilization of mobile subscriber identity information including enabling use of such information by different communication devices. The use of a same generic mobile subscriber identity information by multiple devices can be based on intercepting registration requests and simulated registrations can be performed without providing a unique device identifier. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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Marietta, GA, United States of America

Stephen Emille Chin