Multi-active electronic subscriber identity module profiles for multi-service user equipment

A method of wirelessly communicating by a wireless communication device using two different embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profiles to establish two different user equipment (UE) radio access network (RAN) attachments concurrently, comprising:

• accessing a first eSIM profile stored in a physical UE by a first virtual UE instance executing on a processor of the physical UE;
• establishing a first UE attachment to a radio access network by the first virtual UE instance based on credentials accessed from the first eSIM profile;
• conducting a first wireless communication session by the first virtual UE instance via the first UE attachment;
• accessing a second eSIM profile stored in the physical UE by a second virtual UE instance executing on the processor of the physical UE;
• establishing a second UE attachment to a radio access network by the second virtual UE instance based on credentials accessed from the second eSIM profile;
• and
• conducting a second wireless communication session by the second virtual UE instance via the second UE attachment at the same time that the first virtual UE is conducting the first wireless communication session via the first UE attachment.

A wireless communication device for establishing two different user equipment (UE) radio access network (RAN) attachments, comprising:

• a radio transceiver;
• a baseband processor communicatively coupled to the radio transceiver providing a software interface to support a plurality of virtual user equipment (UE) application instances;
• an application processor communicatively coupled to the baseband processor;
• a non-transitory memory;
• a virtual user equipment (UE) application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the application processor as a first virtual UE instance, the first virtual UE application instance:
• accesses a first eSIM profile stored in the non-transitory memory,
• establishes a first UE attachment to a radio access network via the baseband processor based on credentials accessed from the first eSIM profile, and
• conducts a first wireless communication session via the first UE attachment,
• and when executed by the application processor as a second virtual UE application instance, the second virtual UE application instance accesses a second eSIM profile stored in the non-transitory memory,
• establishes a second UE attachment to a radio access network via the baseband processor based on credentials accessed from the second eSIM profile, and
• conducts a second wireless communication session via the second UE attachment.