Rsp platform selection for providing esim profiles to user devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11622259-B2
Application number	US-202117243556-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2021
Priority date	Sep 13, 2019
Publication date	Apr 4, 2023
Grant date	Apr 4, 2023

Abstract

Telecommunication services are received at a user device using an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile stored on the user device while the user device is located in a first geographical area. A list of preferred remote SIM provisioning (RSP) platforms that provide eSIM profiles specific to a partner MNO of the MNO in a second geographical area is also received from an eSIM management platform of an MNO; The user device is then determined to have moved to a second geographical area based on a geolocation of the user device. Subsequently, an additional eSIM profile specific to the partner MNO of the MNO is downloaded to the user device from an RSP platform of one or more RSP platforms included in the list of preferred RSP platforms.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media of a user device storing computer-executable instructions that upon execution cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising: receiving telecommunication services using an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile stored on the user device while the user device is located in a first geographical area; receiving a list of preferred remote SIM provisioning (RSP) platforms that provide eSIM profiles specific to a partner mobile network operator (MNO) of an MNO in a second geographical area from an eSIM management platform of the MNO; determining the user device has moved to a second geographical area based on a geolocation of the user device; and downloading an additional eSIM profile specific to the partner MNO of the MNO from an RSP platform of one or more RSP platforms included in the list of preferred RSP platforms.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the acts further comprise receiving telecommunication services from the partner MNO using the additional eSIM profile specific to the partner MNO in the second geographical area.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the receiving telecommunication services in the first geographical area includes receiving the telecommunication services from the MNO or a partner MNO of the MNO via the eSIM profile.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the RSP platform is a most preferred RSP platform in the list of preferred RSP platforms.

5. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the RSP platform is selected to provide the additional eSIM profile to the user device following an indication that a more preferred RSP platform on the list of is unable to provide the additional eSIM profile to the user device.

6. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the list of preferred RSP platforms ranks multiple RSP platforms from a most preferred RSP platform to a least preferred RSP platform based on one or more service features of the multiple RSP platforms.

7. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 6 , wherein at least one service feature of the RSP platform include a geographical area serviced by the RSP platform, an availability of the RSP platform to distribute eSIM profiles, a representative response time of the RSP platform to requests for the eSIM profiles, a reliability of the RSP platform in distributing the eSIM profiles, at least one available inventory quantity of eSIM profiles that are carried by the RSP platform for one or more user device types.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, at a user device, telecommunication services using an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile stored on the user device while the user device is located in a first geographical area; receiving, at the user device, a list of preferred remote SIM provisioning (RSP) platforms that provide eSIM profiles specific to a partner mobile network operator (MNO) of an MNO in a second geographical area from an eSIM management platform of the MNO; determining the user device has moved to a second geographical area based on a geolocation of the user device; and downloading, at the user device, an additional eSIM profile specific to the partner MNO of the MNO from an RSP platform of one or more RSP platforms included in the list of preferred RSP platforms.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising receiving telecommunication services from the partner MNO using the additional eSIM profile specific to the partner MNO in the second geographical area.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the receiving telecommunication services in the first geographical area includes receiving the telecommunication services from the MNO or a partner MNO of the MNO via the eSIM profile.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the RSP platform is a most preferred RSP platform in the list of preferred RSP platforms.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the RSP platform is selected to provide the additional eSIM profile to the user device following an indication that a more preferred RSP platform on the list of is unable to provide the additional eSIM profile to the user device.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the list of preferred RSP platforms ranks multiple RSP platforms from a most preferred RSP platform to a least preferred RSP platform based on one or more service features of the multiple RSP platforms.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 , wherein at least one service feature of the RSP platform include a geographical area serviced by the RSP platform, an availability of the RSP platform to distribute eSIM profiles, a representative response time of the RSP platform to requests for the eSIM profiles, a reliability of the RSP platform in distributing the eSIM profiles, at least one available inventory quantity of eSIM profiles that are carried by the RSP platform for one or more user device types.

15. A user device, comprising: one or more processors; and memory including a plurality of computer-executable components that are executable by the one or more processors to perform a plurality of actions, the plurality of actions comprising: receiving telecommunication services using an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile stored on the user device while the user device is located in a first geographical area; receiving a list of preferred remote SIM provisioning (RSP) platforms that provide eSIM profiles specific to a partner mobile network operator (MNO) of an MNO in a second geographical area from an eSIM management platform of the MNO; determining the user device has moved to a second geographical area based on a geolocation of the user device; and downloading an additional eSIM profile specific to the partner MNO of the MNO from an RSP platform of one or more RSP platforms included in the list of preferred RSP platforms.

16. The user device of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of actions further comprise receiving telecommunication services from the partner MNO using the additional eSIM profile specific to the partner MNO in the second geographical area.

17. The user device of claim 15 , wherein the receiving telecommunication services in the first geographical area includes receiving the telecommunication services from the MNO or a partner MNO of the MNO via the eSIM profile.

18. The user device of claim 15 , wherein the RSP platform is a most preferred RSP platform in the list of preferred RSP platforms.

19. The user device of claim 15 , wherein the list of preferred RSP platforms ranks multiple RSP platforms from a most preferred RSP platform to a least preferred RSP platform based on one or more service features of the multiple RSP platforms.

20. The user device of claim 19 , wherein at least one service feature of the RSP platform include a geographical area serviced by the RSP platform, an availability of the RSP platform to distribute eSIM profiles, a representative response time of the RSP platform to requests for the eSIM profiles, a reliability of the RSP platform in distributing the eSIM profiles, at least one available inventory quantity of eSIM profiles that are carried by the RSP platform for one or more user device types.

Assignees

• T Mobile Usa Inc

Inventors

• Roy Tanmay
• Asandului Cristian
• An Kyeong Hun
• Ramisetty Phani
• George Mathew
• King Ryan

Classifications

• H04W4/50

  Service provisioning or reconfiguring · CPC title

• H04W4/021

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title

• H04W12/42

  using virtual identity modules · CPC title

• H04W8/205

  Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier · CPC title