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Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Ramon, CA (US);

Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;

Adesh Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);

Birgit Breining, Munich, DE;

Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US);

Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, San Diego, CA (US);

Srirang A. Lovlekar, Fremont, CA (US);

Yuqin Chen, Beijing, CN;

Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 60/00 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A technique for determining that a wireless device supports using multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to establish multiple connections to wireless networks, generating a multi-SIM capability message, and transmitting the multi-SIM capability message to a first wireless network. In another aspect, a technique for a wireless system to receive a multi-SIM capability message from a wireless device, determine a connection configuration of the wireless device based on the received multi-SIM capability message, and transmit an indication of the configured connection to the wireless device.


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