Patent ID: 9560520
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method to provision a user interface module (UIM) card in a mobile wireless device, the method comprising one or more processors of the mobile wireless device: obtaining a provisioning status file for the UIM card; determining whether the UIM card is provisioned or may require update provisioning based on values in one or more fields of the provisioning status file; and in response to determining the UIM card is not provisioned or may require update provisioning: establishing a bearer independent protocol (BIP) data connection to a server in a wireless network; obtaining provisioning data for the UIM card from the server; and closing the BIP data connection to the server in response to a command from the UIM card, wherein the one or more fields of the provisioning status file comprise one or more of a provisioning status field, a software version field, or a date/time field.