US 10,567,952 B1Granted

ESIM subsidy and operational management

AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.

InventorsJoshua Finger, Gina Tran, Ming Shan Kwok

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Abstract

Techniques are described herein for remotely managing profiles corresponding to various mobile network operators offering telecommunication services to target user equipment based on one or more policies. An entitlement server of a mobile network operator can receive from target user equipment, a request for replacing a prioritized profile as set by the mobile network operator. The entitlement server can determine whether a user account corresponding to a device identifier for the target user equipment meets the eligibility criteria for loading a new profile onto the target user equipment. In the event of additions or replacements of profiles, the entitlement server can cause transmission of instructions to the user equipment to delete the prioritized profile and apply a new profile.

Claims14

Dependent claims

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that upon execution cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

receiving a request for deleting a prioritized profile loaded onto an embedded UICC (eUICC) corresponding to an embedded UICC identifier (EID) and an integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) of a unique user equipment, the prioritized profile associated with an international mobile subscriber identifier (IMSI) and one or more policies;
retrieving from a policy database, the one or more policies for deleting the prioritized profile on the eUICC;
determining, based at least in part on the one or more policies, whether the prioritized profile on the eUICC is eligible to be deleted;
and
locking the user equipment to the IMSI in response to making a determination that the prioritized profile is ineligible to be deleted.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/201,175Filed 27 Nov 2018
Granted: 18 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04L 9/006
Cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols: involving public key…
H04W 8/183
Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data:…
H04L 9/0825
Key transport or distribution, i.e. key establishment techniques where one party creates or otherwise obtains a secret value, and securely…: using…
H04W 8/205
Transfer of user or subscriber data: transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier