Patent ID: 9210573
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for registering a computing device with one or more communications service providers in order to securely provide communications service to a user of the computing device, the method comprising: transmitting a SIM card image from the one or more communications service providers to the computing device, the SIM card image being a read-only encrypted image of a physical SIM card and including soft SIM data, the soft SIM data including a unique serial number and a unique identifier of the user of the computing device, the computing device having a secure module that is configured to read the soft SIM data in a secure manner; storing the SIM card image in internal memory of the computing device as the soft SIM data; and registering a unique identifier of the computing device in association with the soft SIM data for the purpose of providing communications service to the device.