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New Apple Patent Details Virtual SIM Card

A new patent application from Apple details how a future iPhone could apply a realistic SIM bill that also integrates Near Field Communication (NFC).

There are a few advantages of utilizing near field technology. For one, it would allow consumers to road carriers when purchasing an iPhone, According to 9to5Mac, a costumer could instead apply a carrier-chooser app, for instance, to superior the meshwork of their choosing. This would earmark Apple to delude the iPhone finished their retail stores, cutting carriers discover of the sales.

Another goodness that Apple highlights in their application is the ability to produce an modify “thinner, astoundingly beautiful, incoming procreation iPhone”, thanks to the demand of a SIM bill slot.

PatentlyApple explains:

Apple’s solution is rattling complex and unless you’re grounded in this portion field you’re feat to get lost. However, patch the papers discusses the ingest of Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM)) cards, the actual brainstorm here is that Apple is considering a help of iPhone that haw ingest a incoming procreation Virtual SIM bill that includes a NFC Router and tamper-proof security. It’s only in this fashion that Apple’s background statement of creating a thinner device makes any sense.

In Apple’s papers FIGS. 5a and 5b shown below we wager digit typical embodiments of a element architecture (502, 504) for a “virtual” Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) according to the invention. Unlike prior art solutions, the typical embodiments of FIGS. 5a and 5bstore a USIM 506 within an embedded Secure Element (SE) 508, which isn’t a extractable card. The first illustrated personification 502 of the inform invention (FIG. 5a) additionally includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) router 510.

[9to5Mac via PatentlyApple]

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