Patent ID: 9419970
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for distributing electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs) to destination devices, the method comprising: by an eSIM server: receiving a request to allocate eSIMs for a plurality of destination devices, wherein the request includes associated identifying information for each destination device of the plurality of destination devices; and in response to the request, and for each destination device of the plurality of destination devices; identifying an available eSIM to allocate to the destination device based on the associated identifying information, allocating the available eSIM to the destination device, encrypting the available eSIM to yield an encrypted eSIM for the destination device, and transmitting the encrypted eSIM to one or more eSIM depots to enable the encrypted eSIM to be provided to the destination device by way of at least one of the one or more eSIM depots.