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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 11, 2021
Applicant:

Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Claudio Rosa, Anders, DK;

Troels Emil Kolding, Klarup, DK;

Bo Holm Bjerrum, Nibe, DK;

Laurent Thiebaut, Antony, FR;

Betsy Covell, Chicago, IL (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/20 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/205 (2013.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.02); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and software of directly connecting a SIM-less device with a cellular network. In one embodiment, User Equipment (UE) includes a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) provisioned with a plurality of subscription profiles for subscriptions to the cellular network. The UE establishes a direct communication with a SIM-less device that does not have a subscription with the cellular network. The UE selects one of the subscriptions provisioned in the SIM as a temporary subscription assigned to the SIM-less device to allow the SIM-less device to establish a direct connection with the cellular network using the temporary subscription, and transmits a message to the SIM-less device via the direct communication containing subscription credentials for the temporary subscription. The SIM-less device may therefore register with the cellular network using the subscription credentials provided by the UE, and establish a direct connection with the cellular network using the temporary subscription.


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