Polling by universal integrated circuit card for remote subscription
View Patent ↗In some implementations, a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) of a computing device activates a primary mobile network operator (MNO) subscription profile associated with a primary MNO based on: (i) whether the computing device is connected to a network, (ii) whether the primary MNO subscription profile is active, and (iii) a number of unacknowledged messages to a message that is periodically sent from the computer to a server associated with the primary MNO. The primary MNO may provide network services to a first geographic area and a secondary MNO may provide network services to a second geographic area. After the computing device moves to the second geographic location from the first geographic location, the eUICC received a secondary MNO profile associated with the secondary MNO, activates the secondary MNO profile, and deactivates the primary MNO profile.
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
determining, by a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) of a computing device, whether the computing device is connected to a network;
determining, by the UICC, whether a primary mobile network operator (MNO) profile associated with a primary MNO is active;
determining, by the UICC, a number of unacknowledged messages; and
setting, by the UICC, the primary MNO profile to active in response to determining that:
the computing device is connected to the network;
the primary MNO profile is inactive; and
the number of unacknowledged messages satisfies a predetermined threshold.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending a message to a server associated with the primary MNO.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , further comprising:
receiving, from the server, an acknowledgement to the message; and
re-setting the number of unacknowledged messages to an initial value.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , further comprising:
determining, after a predetermined period of time, that an acknowledgement to the message was not received from the server; and
incrementing the number of unacknowledged messages.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to determining that the computing device is not connected to the network, requesting to connect to at least one available network.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a secondary MNO profile after the computing device has moved to a new location where the primary MNO does not provide service.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , further comprising:
setting the primary MNO profile to inactive; and
setting the secondary MNO profile to active.
8. A computing device comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors; and
a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) including at least one subscription profile, the UICC configured to perform operations comprising:
determining that:
the computing device is connected to a network;
the at least one subscription profile includes a primary mobile network operator (MNO) profile; and
a number of unacknowledged messages satisfies a predetermined threshold; and
based at least in part on determining that the number of unacknowledged messages satisfies the predetermined threshold, designating the primary MNO profile as a home network.
9. The computing device of claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
receiving, from a server, an acknowledgement to a message sent from the computing device to the server; and
resetting the number of unacknowledged messages to an initial value.
10. The computing device of claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
determining that a message sent from the computing device to a server was unacknowledged; and
incrementing the number of unacknowledged messages.
11. The computing device of claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
determining that the computing device is not connected to any network;
identifying one or more available networks; and
requesting to connect to at least one available network of the one or more available networks.
12. The computing device of claim 8 , wherein:
the primary MNO provides network service in a first geographic location; and
a secondary MNO provides network service in a second geographic location.
13. The computing device of claim 12 , the operations further comprising:
after the computing device has moved to the second geographic location from the first geographic location:
activating a secondary MNO profile associated with the secondary MNO;
designating the secondary MNO profile as the home network; and
deactivating the primary MNO profile.
14. A computer implemented method comprising:
determining, by a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) of a computing device, whether a computing device is connected to a network;
determining, by the UICC, whether a primary mobile network operator (MNO) profile is active, the primary MNO profile associated with a primary MNO;
determining, by the UICC, a number of messages that were unacknowledged by a server of the primary MNO; and
setting, by the UICC, the primary MNO profile to active based at least in part on:
whether the computing device is connected to the network;
whether the primary MNO profile is active; and
whether the number of unacknowledged messages satisfies a predetermined threshold.
15. The computer implemented method of claim 14 , further comprising:
receiving, from the server, an acknowledgement to a message sent from the computing device to the server; and
resetting the number of unacknowledged messages to an initial value.
16. The computer implemented method of claim 14 , further comprising:
determining that a message sent from the computing device to the server was unacknowledged; and
incrementing the number of unacknowledged messages.
17. The computer implemented method of claim 14 , further comprising:
determining that the computing device is unconnected to the network; and
requesting to connect to at least one available network.
18. The computer implemented method of claim 14 , wherein:
the primary MNO provides network service in a first geographic location; and
a secondary MNO provides network service in a second geographic location that does not overlap with the first geographic area.
19. The computer implemented method of claim 18 , further comprising:
after the computing device has moved to the second geographic location from the first geographic location and has stayed in the second geographic location for at least a predetermined period of time:
activating a secondary MNO profile associated with the secondary MNO;
designating the secondary MNO profile as the home network; and
deactivating the primary MNO profile.
20. The computer implemented method of claim 19 , further comprising:
after the computing device has moved back to the first geographic location from the second geographic location:
activating the primary MNO profile associated with the primary MNO;
designating the primary MNO profile as the home network; and
deactivating the secondary MNO profile.