Patent ID: 11924916
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method of a user equipment (UE), comprising:
transmitting, using a transceiver of the UE, a request to activate the UE with a cellular carrier;
in response to receiving an authentication request for authenticating a user of the UE, transmitting, using the transceiver of the UE and to the cellular carrier, information identifying another UE and authentication information for authenticating the user;
obtaining verification information transmitted to the other UE;
transmitting, using the transceiver of the UE and to the cellular carrier, the verification information; and
in response to validation of the verification information by the cellular carrier, receiving an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) subscription transferred from the other UE.