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Multi-subscriber identity module capability signaling framework

US12035394B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

Sethuraman Gurumoorthy · San Jose, US
Fangli Xu · Beijing, CN
Adesh Kumar · San Jose, US
Birgit Breining · Munich, DE
Dawei Zhang · Saratoga, US
Haijing Hu · Beijing, CN
Longda Xing · San Jose, US
Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata · San Diego, US
Srirang A. Lovlekar · Cupertino, US
Yuqin Chen · Lo Wu, CN
Zhibin Wu · Los Altos, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 22, 2020
Grant date	Jul 9, 2024
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 22, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W88/06
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A technique for determining that a wireless device supports using multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to establish multiple connections to wireless networks, generating a multi-SIM capability message, and transmitting the multi-SIM capability message to a first wireless network. In another aspect, a technique for a wireless system to receive a multi-SIM capability message from a wireless device, determine a connection configuration of the wireless device based on the received multi-SIM capability message, and transmit an indication of the configured connection to the wireless device.

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