Postponed eSIM delivery to secondary mobile wireless device for cellular wireless service subscription
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsLi Li, Keizo Marui, Anish Kumar Goyal, Abishek Kumar Vaidyanathan, Samy Touati, Rohan C. Malthankar
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Abstract
This Application sets forth techniques for cellular wireless service management for a secondary mobile wireless device assisted by a primary mobile wireless device, including delayed delivery of an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) to the secondary mobile wireless device for subscription to cellular wireless service of a mobile network operator (MNO).
Claims20
A primary mobile wireless device configured comprising:
- wireless circuitry comprising one or more antennas;
- and
- one or more processors communicatively coupled to the wireless circuitry and to a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause a secondary mobile wireless device to perform actions including:
- establishing a secure connection to a mobile network operator (MNO) web-sheet server;
- providing, to the MNO web-sheet server, subscription information for the secondary mobile wireless device, the subscription information including requirements for one or more of an identity check or a credit check;
- receiving, from the MNO web-sheet server, an indication that the one or more of the identity check or the credit check requires additional time to complete;
- pausing cellular wireless service subscription for the secondary mobile wireless device until receipt of a notification message from a push notification server;
- responsive to receipt, from the push notification server, of the notification message, where the notification message indicates the one or more of the identity check or the credit check completed successfully, resuming cellular wireless service subscription for the secondary mobile wireless device by at least:
- obtaining, from an MNO entitlement server, status information for an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- and
- sending, to the secondary mobile wireless device, a message to initiate provisioning of the eSIM from an MNO provisioning server;
- and
- responsive to receipt, from the secondary mobile wireless device, of an indication of successful eSIM installation, updating a user interface of the primary mobile wireless device to indicate access to cellular wireless service of the MNO using the eSIM is available to the secondary mobile wireless device.
An apparatus configurable for operation in a primary mobile wireless device, the apparatus comprising one or more processors communicatively coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the primary mobile wireless device to perform actions including:
- providing, to a mobile network operator (MNO) web-sheet server, subscription information for a secondary mobile wireless device;
- receiving, from the MNO web-sheet server, an indication that the one or more of an identity check or a credit check requires additional time to complete;
- pausing cellular wireless service subscription for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- responsive to receipt, from a push notification server, of a notification message indicating the one or more of the identity check or the credit check completed successfully, resuming cellular wireless service subscription for the secondary mobile wireless device by at least:
- obtaining, from an MNO entitlement server, status information for an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- and
- sending, to the secondary mobile wireless device, a message to initiate provisioning of the eSIM from an MNO provisioning server.
A method for delayed cellular wireless service electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) subscription for a secondary mobile wireless device, the method comprising:
- by a primary mobile wireless device:
- providing, to a mobile network operator (MNO) web-sheet server, subscription information for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- receiving, from the MNO web-sheet server, an indication that an identity check requires additional time to complete;
- pausing cellular wireless service subscription for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- and
- responsive to receipt, from a push notification server, of a notification message indicating the identity check completed successfully, resuming cellular wireless service subscription for the secondary mobile wireless device by at least:
- obtaining, from an MNO entitlement server, status information for an eSIM for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- and
- sending, to the secondary mobile wireless device, a message to initiate provisioning of the eSIM from an MNO provisioning server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.