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Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Washington, DC (US);

Inventors:

Mary Williams, Miltona, MN (US);

Zhengfang Chen, Millburn, NJ (US);

Axel Hallo de Wolf, Whippany, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/50 (2018.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/50 (2018.02); H04W 8/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

A service provider may receive a user device that includes an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) associated with an equipment identifier (eID) with a previously provisioned service. The previously provisioned service may be provided by an eSIM profile (identified by an Integrated Circuit Card Identifier or ICCID) and the eSIM may contain more than one ICCID. The service provider may re-provision one of the existing ICCIDs to provide service based on the eID and historical data. The device and the carrier provisioning system may determine whether one of the profiles (ICCIDs) installed in the eSIM matches an already known eSIM profile (ICCD) and re-provision the eSIM profile (ICCD) for new wireless service. The service provider may then activate the user device for communication via the new wireless service in response to re-provisioning of the applicable eSIM profile (ICCID).


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