US 2019/0158502 A1 · METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOWNLOADING PROFILE ON EMBEDDED UNIVERSAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARD OF TERMINAL

Abstract

A method for downloading a profile on an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of a terminal is provided. The method includes transmitting a profile request containing eUICC authentication information to a profile providing server through a security channel, upon receiving, from the profile providing server, profile-related information generated in response to the profile request, displaying non-encrypted profile information contained in the profile-related information on a screen, identifying whether a user input indicating whether to proceed to download the profile is detected, and downloading the profile, corresponding to the identified user input.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A method for acquiring a profile from a server by a user equipment (UE) comprising an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) and a local profile assistant (LPA), the method comprising:

generating, by the eUICC, a one-time key pair, the one-time key pair comprising:
a one-time public key of the eUICC, and
a one-time private key of the eUICC;
and
transmitting, by the eUICC, a one-time public key of the eUICC to the LPA.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/248,090Filed 15 Jan 2019

Priority

13 Nov 2015

Published

23 May 2019

Term ends

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Classification15 codes

H04L 63/102
For controlling access to devices or network resources: entity profiles
H04L 63/0428
For providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks: wherein the data content is protected, e.g.…
H04L 63/0823
For authentication of entities: using certificates
H04L 63/0853
For authentication of entities: using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal

Family

Application62/254,944Us provisional application · filed 13 Nov 2015

Application15/350,963Continuation · filed 14 Nov 2016

Application16/248,090Continuation

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Method and apparatus for downloading profile on embedded universal integrated circuit card of terminal

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Method and apparatus for downloading profile on embedded universal integrated circuit card of terminal

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