Source Device Cross Platform eSIM Profile Transfer

Organization Name

apple inc.

Inventor(s)

Raj S Chaugule of Santa Clara CA (US)

Hyewon Lee of Cupertino CA (US)

Jean-Marc Padova of San Francisco CA (US)

Li Li of Saratoga CA (US)

Rohan C Malthankar of San Jose CA (US)

Sherman X Jin of Santa Clara CA (US)

Suraj Gupta of Santa Clara CA (US)

Xiangying Yang of Cupertino CA (US)

Zexing Shi of Cupertino CA (US)

Source Device Cross Platform eSIM Profile Transfer

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250080970 titled 'Source Device Cross Platform eSIM Profile Transfer

Original Abstract Submitted

an apparatus configured to engage in an embedded subscriber identity module (esim) profile transfer process to transfer an esim profile from a source device executing a first operating system (os) that implements a first protocol stack related to esim profile transfers to a target device executing a second os that implements a second protocol stack related to esim profile transfers, wherein the first protocol stack and the second protocol stack are different, process, based on signaling received from an entitlement server, a token for transferring the esim profile and generate, for transmission to the target device, a message comprising the token.