Provisioning an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of a mobile communication device

A computer system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a non-transitory memory;
• and
• an embedded universal integrate circuit card (eUICC) provisioning application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor:
• sends a global system for mobile communications association (GSMA) confirm order request to a SM-DP+ server, wherein the confirm order comprises an ICCID and a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of a discovery server, where the ICCID identifies an eSIM profile stored on the SM-DP+ server,
• receives a GSMA confirm order response from the SM-DP+ server, where the GSMA confirm order response indicates a failure of the discovery server,
• in response to the failure of the discovery server indicated in the GSMA confirm order response, determines that a mobile communication device associated with the ICCID is configured with a local profile assistant (LPA) application that is able to complete an alternative eSIM profile provisioning process based on using a scanning device to capture an activation code,
• generates an activation code that encodes an address of the SM-DP+ server and the ICCID, and
• sends the activation code to an email account associated with a subscriber of the mobile communication device associated with the ICCID, whereby the mobile communication device is enabled to scan the activation code presented in a screen of an email application executing on a computer system associated with the user, to decode the activation code to extract the address of the SM-DP+ server and the ICCID from the activation code, to establish a data communication session with the SM-DP+ server, to provide the ICCID to the SM-DP+ server, to download the eSIM profile stored on the SM-DP+ server identified by the ICCID, and to install the eSIM profile into an eUICC of the mobile communication device.

A method of provisioning an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of a mobile communication device, comprising:

• sending a global system for mobile communications association (GSMA) confirm order request from an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) provisioning application executing on a computer system to a SM-DP+ server, wherein the confirm order comprises an ICCID and a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of a discovery server, where the ICCID identifies an eSIM profile stored on the SM-DP+ server;
• receiving a GSMA confirm order response by the eUICC provisioning application from the SM-DP+ server, where the GSMA confirm order response indicates a failure of the discovery server;
• in response to the failure of the discovery server indicated in the GSMA confirm order response, determining by the eUICC provisioning application that a mobile communication device associated with the ICCID is configured with a local profile assistant (LPA) application that is able to complete an alternative eSIM profile provisioning process based on using a scanning device to capture an activation code;
• generating an activation code by the eUICC provisioning application, where the activation code encodes an address of the SM-DP+ server and the ICCID;
• and
• sending the activation code by the eUICC provisioning application to an email account associated with a subscriber of the mobile communication device associated with the ICCID, whereby the mobile communication device is enabled to scan the activation code presented in a screen of an email application executing on a computer system associated with the user, to decode the activation code to extract the address of the SM-DP+ server and the ICCID from the activation code, to establish a data communication session with the SM-DP+ server, to provide the ICCID to the SM-DP+ server, to download the eSIM profile stored on the SM-DP+ server identified by the ICCID, and to install the eSIM profile into an eUICC of the mobile communication device.