Batch Profile Handling for Wireless Device Sets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for handling subscription profiles for wireless devices are inefficient, particularly for large sets of devices, as they require individual handling and rely on known device identities, making batch operations and remote management challenging.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allow for efficient handling of subscription profiles by creating a common batch profile handling parameter and using a matching identifier for a set of wireless devices, enabling batch operations and remote profile management without requiring individual device identities, through a profile provisioning server and management entity collaboration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If individual handling methods are used for each wireless device, then device identity tracking is precise, but operational complexity and time consumption increase significantly for large sets of devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual device identifiers into a single batch identifier that represents a set of wireless devices. This batch identifier is used to group devices and enable collective profile handling operations, thereby improving productivity while reducing the time required for batch operations compared to individual device processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The batch identifier serves multiple functions: it identifies the set of devices, enables batch profile ordering, facilitates remote management operations, and allows tracking of profile handling status across multiple devices. This multi-functional approach resolves the contradiction by providing a universal mechanism that improves efficiency without sacrificing operational capability.
2Ease of operation
If batch operations are implemented without individual device identities, then operational complexity is reduced, but the ability to track and manage specific devices is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested structure where individual device identifiers are contained within the batch identifier framework. The batch identifier represents the collective set, while individual device identities are preserved within the batch context, allowing both batch-level simplicity and individual-level tracking to coexist without losing device identity information.
3Adaptability or versatility
If remote profile management is enabled before device identities are known, then deployment flexibility is improved, but security and authentication become challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables preliminary batch profile ordering and remote management setup before individual device identities are fully known or assigned. The batch identifier allows the system to prepare and stage profile data in advance, improving deployment flexibility while maintaining security through batch-level authentication mechanisms that are later refined to individual device levels.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided mechanisms for handling subscription profiles for a set of wireless devices. A method is performed by an MNO entity. The method includes obtaining a single request for handling subscription profiles for the set of wireless devices. The method includes performing, with a profile provisioning server, a preparation procedure for the set of wireless devices wherein a common batch profile handling parameter for the set of wireless devices is created, and whereby the set of wireless devices are associated with at least one matching identifier for tracking actions relating to the handling of the subscription profiles at the MNO entity and the profile provisioning server.