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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. 05, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Raj S. Chaugule, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Alex M. Was, Cupertino, CA (US);

Avinash Narasimhan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Damien R. Holzapfel, Campbell, CA (US);

He Zheng, Irvine, CA (US);

Li Li, Saratoga, CA (US);

Timothy M. Sheridan, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/03 (2021.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 12/033 (2021.01); H04W 12/30 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 12/033 (2021.01); H04W 12/35 (2021.01);
Abstract

A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit, to a cellular carrier, a request to activate the UE with the cellular carrier. The UE is also configured to, in response to receiving an authentication request for authenticating a user of the UE, transmit, to the cellular carrier, information identifying another UE and authentication information for authenticating the user ; prompt the user, via a display of the UE, to provide, to an input system of the UE, verification information transmitted to the other UE; transmit, to the cellular carrier, the verification information; and in response to validation of the verification information by the cellular carrier, receive an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) subscription transferred from the other UE.


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