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Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2012
Applicants:

Vineet Mittal, San Diego, CA (US);

Kalle Ilmari Ahmavaara, San Diego, CA (US);

Prabhu Govindaswamy, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vineet Mittal, San Diego, CA (US);

Kalle Ilmari Ahmavaara, San Diego, CA (US);

Prabhu Govindaswamy, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 12/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/003 (2013.01); H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 12/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, devices and systems enable the dynamic updating of home public land mobile network (HPLMN) information stored on a subscriber identification module (SIM) to avoid a roaming indication, without requiring any modifications to the mobile device modem, SIM application programming interface (API), the modem software, or the mobile device operating system. A mobile device may scan available public land mobile networks (PLMNs) to identify a participating PLMN to which the mobile device may connect, and receive network values having a mobile country code (MCC) value and a mobile network code (MNC) value from the identified PLMN. The mobile device may overwrite an existing HPLMN value and/or one or more IMSI values on the SIM with the receive network values.


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