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US 11,689,921 B2Granted
Cellular service management for secondary mobile wireless devices
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsLi Li, Abishek Kumar Vaidyanathan, Anish Kumar Goyal, Keizo Marui
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Abstract
This Application sets forth techniques for cellular service management for a secondary mobile wireless device assisted by a primary mobile wireless device, including provisioning and management of electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) for a secondary mobile wireless device with user authorization obtained via the primary mobile wireless device.
Claims20
A secondary mobile wireless device 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 the secondary mobile wireless device to install an electronic Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) by performing actions including:
- receiving, from a push notification server, a push notification indicating an eSIM reserved for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- obtaining, from an eSIM discovery server, information regarding the eSIM;
- initiating, responsive to receipt of a first authorization message from a primary mobile wireless device, provisioning of the eSIM from a mobile network operator (MNO) provisioning server;
- pausing the provisioning of the eSIM after completion of two-way authentication with the MNO provisioning server until receipt of a second authorization message from the primary mobile wireless device;
- continuing, responsive to receipt of the second authorization message from the primary mobile wireless device, provisioning of the eSIM from the MNO provisioning server;
- and
- installing the eSIM on an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of the secondary mobile wireless device,
- wherein the secondary mobile wireless device is configured to require authorization from the primary mobile wireless device for management of eSIMs on the secondary mobile wireless device.
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A method for cellular service electronic Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) provisioning to a secondary mobile wireless device, the method comprising:
- by the secondary mobile wireless device:
- obtaining, from an eSIM discovery server, information regarding an eSIM reserved for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- initiating, responsive to receipt of a first authorization message from a primary mobile wireless device, provisioning of the eSIM from a mobile network operator (MNO) provisioning server;
- pausing the provisioning of the eSIM after completion of two-way authentication with the MNO provisioning server until receipt of a second authorization message from the primary mobile wireless device;
- continuing, responsive to receipt of the second authorization message from the primary mobile wireless device, provisioning of the eSIM from the MNO provisioning server;
- and
- installing the eSIM on an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of the secondary mobile wireless device,
- wherein the secondary mobile wireless device is configured to require authorization from the primary mobile wireless device for management of eSIMs on the secondary mobile wireless device.
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A primary mobile wireless device, 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, authorize a secondary mobile wireless device to install an electronic Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) by performing actions including:
- receiving, from the secondary mobile wireless device, a push notification indicating an eSIM reserved for the secondary mobile wireless device;
- providing, to the secondary mobile wireless device, a first authorization message to cause the secondary mobile wireless device to initiate provisioning of the eSIM from a mobile network operator (MNO) provisioning server;
- receiving, from the secondary mobile wireless device, information regarding the eSIM obtained by the secondary mobile wireless device from the MNO provisioning server or from an eSIM discovery server;
- and
- providing, to the secondary mobile wireless device, a second authorization message to cause the secondary mobile wireless device to continue provisioning of the eSIM from the MNO provisioning server,
- wherein the first and second authorization messages indicate authorization by a user of the primary mobile wireless device for eSIM provisioning to proceed for the secondary mobile wireless device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.