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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2016
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Mahesh Devdatta Telang, San Diego, CA (US);
Rakesh Maramreddy, San Diego, CA (US);
Madhusudan Kinthada Venkata, San Diego, CA (US);
Bhavik Shah, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides techniques for assigning virtual international mobile subscriber identity (VIMSI) to the peripheral device associated with the user equipment (UE) based in part on the mobile device identification (ID) of the UE itself. As such, peripheral devices that are configured with dual radios (e.g., short range communication chips and cellular radio) do not require a separate subscriber information module (SIM) chip to establish cellular connectivity independent of the UE. Moreover, because the peripheral device is allocated a VIMSI based on the mobile ID of the UE, the peripheral devices also achieve an advantage of maintaining the same phone number as the UE.