CN111434132A - Method and terminal for opening account of eSIM card - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides an account opening method and terminal for an eSIM card, relates to the technical field of communication, and can be used for handling the account opening process of the eSIM card on line, thereby simplifying the account opening process and the operation efficiency of the eSIM card. The method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that a terminal sends an account opening request of an eSIM card to an operator server, wherein the account opening request is used for requesting the operator server to acquire configuration information required by the eSIM card; further, after receiving the download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server, the terminal can download the configuration information according to the download address and write the configuration information into the eSIM card; the terminal can also prompt the user that the configuration information has been successfully configured within the eSIM card.

Description

Method and terminal for opening account of eSIM card Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to an account opening method and terminal for an eSIM card.

Background

A Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card may also be called a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC), and a terminal such as a mobile phone can normally use communication functions such as a call and a short message only after the SIM card is installed. Although the size of the SIM card is gradually reduced in the process of evolution from the Mini SIM card, the Micro SIM card to the Nano SIM card, the SIM card always needs to occupy the internal space of the mobile phone, and meanwhile, the airtightness of the mobile phone is reduced.

An eSIM card (embedded-SIM) may also be referred to as an eUICC (embedded-UICC), which is about 90% smaller than a conventional SIM card, and may be directly soldered to a motherboard of a mobile phone instead of being inserted into the mobile phone as a separate removable component. In addition, the eSIM card is programmable, and can write or erase configuration information (i.e., profile, such as user identity, operator subscription information, etc.) of any operator, so that a user can open and replace different services provided by different operators online.

Before using the built-in eSIM card, a user needs to go to a business hall of an operator to handle an account opening process, generate a profile corresponding to the eSIM card of the user, and download the profile to a terminal of the user before using the profile. Generally, an identification (EID) of an eSIM card in a terminal is provided by a user to a serviceman in a business hall, and the serviceman uses the EID to help the user open an account and then generates an activation code (activation code) for downloading the profile thereof. And after the terminal scans the activation code, the corresponding profile can be downloaded, and the subsequent user can normally use the eSIM card after activating the profile on the terminal. However, the user has to go to the business hall of the operator to complete the above-mentioned opening procedure, which not only reduces the operating efficiency of the eSIM service, but also reduces the user experience of the eSIM card, and wastes the user time.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides an account opening method and terminal for an eSIM card, which can be used for transacting an account opening process of the eSIM card on line, simplify the account opening process and the operation efficiency of the eSIM card and improve the use experience of a user on the eSIM card.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the embodiment of the present application adopts the following technical solutions:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an eSIM card account opening method, including: the method comprises the steps that a terminal sends an account opening request of an eSIM card to an operator server, wherein the account opening request is used for requesting the operator server to acquire configuration information required by the eSIM card; further, after receiving the download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server, the terminal can download the configuration information according to the download address and write the configuration information into the eSIM card; in addition, the terminal can also prompt the user that the configuration information is successfully configured in the eSIM card, complete the online account opening process of the eSIM card, and then the eSIM card can provide the eSIM service by using the configuration information.

Therefore, the method provided by the embodiment of the application can enable the user to open the account of the eSIM card on line on the APP or the webpage of the online business hall, and solves the problems of complicated account opening process, reduced use experience and the like caused by the fact that the user goes to a business hall entity store of an operator to handle the account opening process.

In one possible design method, a terminal sends an account opening request of an eSIM card to an operator server, including: the terminal runs the online business hall application of an operator, and receives an application operation executed by a user in the online business hall application, wherein the application operation is used for requesting to open an eSIM card account; and responding to the application operation, and sending an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server by the terminal, wherein the account opening request carries the identification of the eSIM card.

In a possible design method, in response to the application operation, the terminal sends an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server, and the method comprises the steps of responding to the application operation, calling L a first interface provided by PA application (L PA application is management software of the eSIM card) by the online business hall application to acquire an identifier of the eSIM card, transmitting the identifier of the eSIM card to the online business hall application by the online business hall application, and then carrying the identifier of the eSIM card in the account opening request by the online business hall application to send the identifier of the eSIM card to the operator server.

In one possible design method, the terminal receives the download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server, and the method comprises the steps that the online business hall application obtains the download address sent by the operator server, and further the online business hall application transfers the download address to the L PA application.

In one possible design approach, the web business hall application passes the download address to the L PA application, which includes the web business hall application calling the L PA application provided second interface (the second interface is used to pass the download address obtained by the web business hall application to the L PA application) and passing the download address to the L PA application.

It can be seen that through the first interface and the second interface provided by the L PA application, interaction between the L PA application and the online business hall application providing the third-party service can be realized, so that a user can manage configuration information of an eSIM card through the L PA application in the online business hall application, and an online account opening procedure is completed.

In a possible design method, the download address comprises an address of an eSIM server and an index of the configuration information stored in the eSIM server, wherein the terminal downloads the configuration information according to the download address, and the method comprises L PA application instructing the terminal to establish a connection with the eSIM server according to the address of the eSIM server, and L PA application instructing the terminal to download the configuration information in the eSIM server according to the index of the configuration information.

In one possible design method, the terminal writes the configuration information into the eSIM card, including the L PA application writing the configuration information into the eSIM card.

In one possible design method, after the terminal sends an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server, and before the terminal receives a download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server, the method further includes: the terminal displays the candidate telephone number sent by the operator server; if receiving a first input that a user selects a target telephone number from the candidate telephone numbers, the terminal sends an identifier of the target telephone number to an operator server; the terminal displays the candidate service package sent by the operator server; and if receiving a second input of selecting the target service package from the candidate service packages by the user, the terminal sends the identifier of the target service package to the operator server.

In one possible design method, after the terminal writes the configuration information into the eSIM card, the method further includes: when detecting that the activation operation of the configuration information is activated by the user input, the terminal sets the configuration information to an activated state and provides an eSIM service using the configuration information.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, including an eSIM card, a processor, a memory, a display, and a transceiver; the memory is used for storing computer execution instructions, the processor is coupled with the memory, when the terminal runs, the processor executes the computer execution instructions stored by the memory, so that the terminal executes the following steps:

the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request of the eSIM card to an operator server, the account opening request being used for requesting the operator server to obtain configuration information required for opening the eSIM card; the processor receives the download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server through the transceiver; the processor instructs the transceiver to download the configuration information according to the download address; the processor writes the configuration information into the eSIM card; the processor instructs the display to prompt the user that the configuration information has been successfully configured within the eSIM card.

In one possible design method, the memory stores an online lobby application, and the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request of the eSIM card to a carrier server, and the method includes: the online business hall application operated by the processor receives application operation executed by a user, wherein the application operation is used for requesting to open an account in the eSIM card; responding to the application operation, the online business hall application operated by the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server, wherein the account opening request carries the identification of the eSIM card.

In a possible design method, the memory stores L PA application, the L PA application is management software of an eSIM card, wherein the online business hall application operated by the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server, the method comprises the steps that the online business hall application operated by the processor calls a first interface provided by the L PA application to obtain an identifier of the eSIM card, the first interface is used for transmitting the identifier of the eSIM card to the online business hall application, and the online business hall application operated by the processor carries the identifier of the eSIM card in the account opening request to instruct the transceiver to send the eSIM card to the operator server.

In one possible design method, the processor receives the download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server through the transceiver, and the method comprises the steps that an online business hall application operated by the processor obtains the download address sent by the operator server, and an online business hall application operated by the processor transfers the download address to the L PA application.

In one possible design method, the web business hall application run by the processor passes the download address to the L PA application, and the method comprises the web business hall application run by the processor calls a second interface provided by the L PA application and passes the download address to the L PA application, and the second interface is used for passing the download address acquired by the web business hall application to the L PA application.

In one possible design method, the download address comprises an address of an eSIM server and an index of the configuration information stored in the eSIM server, wherein the processor instructs the transceiver to download the configuration information according to the download address, and comprises an L PA application run by the processor instructing the transceiver to establish a connection with the eSIM server according to the address of the eSIM server, and a L PA application run by the processor instructing the transceiver to download the configuration information in the eSIM server according to the index of the configuration information.

In one possible design approach, the processor writing the configuration information to the eSIM card includes the L PA application executed by the processor writing the configuration information to the eSIM card.

In one possible design method, after the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request of the eSIM card to a carrier server, the method further includes: the processor instructs the display to display the candidate phone number transmitted by the operator server; if a first input is received that a user selects a target telephone number from the candidate telephone numbers, the processor instructs the transceiver to send an identification of the target telephone number to the operator server; the processor instructs the display to display the candidate service packages sent by the operator server; if a second input is received that the user selected the target package of services from the candidate package of services, the processor instructs the transceiver to send an identification of the target package of services to the operator server.

In one possible design approach, after the processor writes the configuration information to the eSIM card, the method further includes, upon detecting a user input activation operation that activates the configuration information, the L PA application executed by the processor setting the configuration information to an activated state and providing eSIM services using the configuration information.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, including an eSIM module, an L PA module, and an online business hall module, where the online business hall module is configured to send an account opening request of the eSIM module to an operator server, where the account opening request is used to request the operator server to obtain configuration information required by the eSIM module, and then the online business hall module may receive a download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server, and further the online business hall module may call L PA module to download the configuration information according to the download address and write the configuration information into the eSIM module, and then the online business hall module may prompt a user that the configuration information has been successfully configured in the eSIM module.

In a possible design method, when an online business hall module sends an account opening request of an eSIM module, a first interface provided by an L PA module can be called to obtain an identifier of the eSIM module, the first interface is used for transmitting the identifier of the eSIM module to the online business hall module, and then the online business hall module carries the identifier of the eSIM module in the account opening request and sends the identifier of the eSIM module to an operation server provider.

In a possible design method, when the online business hall module downloads the configuration information according to the download address, a second interface provided by the L PA module can be called first to transfer the download address obtained by the online business hall module to the L PA module, the second interface is used for transferring the download address obtained by the online business hall module to the L PA module, then the L PA module indicates the terminal to establish connection with the eSIM server according to the address of the eSIM server, and the L PA module indicates the terminal to download the configuration information in the eSIM server according to the index of the configuration information.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium, where instructions are stored, and when the instructions are run on any one of the terminals, the terminals are caused to execute the method for opening an account of any one of the eSIM cards.

In a fifth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product containing instructions, which when run on any of the above terminals, causes the terminal to perform the method for account opening of any of the above eSIM cards.

In the embodiments of the present application, the names of the components in the terminal described above do not limit the device itself, and in practical implementations, the components may appear by other names. Insofar as the functions of the respective components are similar to those of the embodiments of the present application, they are within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents.

In addition, the technical effects brought by any one of the design methods of the second aspect to the fifth aspect can be referred to the technical effects brought by the different design methods of the first aspect, and are not described herein again.

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Fig. 1 is a first schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of an android operating system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic architecture diagram of an eSIM system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is an interaction diagram of an eSIM card account opening method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a first scene schematic diagram of an account opening method for an eSIM card according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of a second scenario of an eSIM card account opening method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a scene schematic diagram three of an account opening method for an eSIM card according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a scene schematic diagram of a method for opening an account for an eSIM card according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a scene schematic diagram of a method for opening an account for an eSIM card according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a scene schematic diagram six of an account opening method for an eSIM card according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a third schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In the following, the terms "first", "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the embodiments of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.

The method for opening an account of an eSIM card provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to a terminal with an eSIM card built in, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a wearable device, a vehicle-mounted device, an unmanned aerial vehicle, an Augmented Reality (AR) \\ Virtual Reality (VR) device, a notebook computer, a super-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like, and the embodiment of the application does not limit the terminal.

As shown in fig. 1, the terminal in the embodiment of the present application may be a mobile phone 100. The embodiment will be specifically described below by taking the mobile phone 100 as an example. It should be understood that the illustrated handset 100 is only one example of a terminal and that the handset 100 may have more or fewer components than shown in the figures, may combine two or more components, or may have a different configuration of components. The various components shown in the figures may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software, including one or more signal processing or application specific integrated circuits.

As shown in fig. 1, the mobile phone 100 may specifically include: a processor 101, Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry 102, a memory 103, a touch screen 104, a bluetooth device 105, one or more sensors 106, a WI-FI device 107, a pointing device 108, audio circuitry 109, a peripheral interface 110, a power system 111, and an eSIM card 112. These components may communicate over one or more communication buses or signal lines (not shown in fig. 1). Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the hardware configuration shown in fig. 1 is not intended to be limiting of the handset 100, and that the handset 100 may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components.

The following describes the components of the handset 100 in detail with reference to fig. 1:

the processor 101 is a control center of the cellular phone 100, connects various parts of the cellular phone 100 by various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the cellular phone 100 and processes data by running or executing an application program stored in the memory 103 and calling data and instructions stored in the memory 103. In some embodiments, processor 101 may include one or more processing units; processor 101 may also integrate an application processor and a modem processor; the application processor mainly processes an operating system, a user interface, application programs and the like, and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 101. For example, processor 101 may be the kylin 960 multicore processor manufactured by hua shi technology limited.

The rf circuit 102 may be used for receiving and transmitting wireless signals during the transmission and reception of information or calls. Specifically, the rf circuit 102 may receive downlink data of the base station and then process the received downlink data to the processor 101; in addition, data relating to uplink is transmitted to the base station. Typically, the radio frequency circuitry includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency circuitry 102 may also communicate with other devices via wireless communication. The wireless communication may use any communication standard or protocol including, but not limited to, global system for mobile communications, general packet radio service, code division multiple access, wideband code division multiple access, long term evolution, email, short message service, and the like.

The memory 103 is used for storing application programs and data, and the processor 101 executes various functions and data processing of the mobile phone 100 by running the application programs and data stored in the memory 103. The memory 103 mainly includes a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area can store an operating system and application programs (such as a sound playing function and an image playing function) required by at least one function; the storage data area may store data (e.g., audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created from use of the handset 100. Further, the memory 103 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as a magnetic disk storage device, a flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device. The memory 103 may store various operating systems, such as those developed by apple Inc

Operating System, developed by Google

An operating system, etc.

The touch screen 104 may include a touch sensitive surface 104-1 and a display 104-2. Among other things, the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 (e.g., a touch panel) may capture touch events on or near the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 by a user of the cell phone 100 (e.g., user operation on or near the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object) and transmit the captured touch information to other devices, such as the processor 101. Among other things, a touch event of a user near the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 may be referred to as a hover touch; hover touch may refer to a user not needing to directly contact the touchpad in order to select, move, or drag a target (e.g., an icon, etc.), but only needing to be located near the terminal in order to perform a desired function. In the context of a hover touch application, the terms "touch," "contact," and the like do not imply a contact that is used to directly contact the touch screen, but rather a contact that is near or in proximity thereto. The touch-sensitive surface 104-1 capable of floating touch control can be implemented by using capacitance, infrared light sensation, ultrasonic waves and the like. The touch-sensitive surface 104-1 may include two portions, a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch detection device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, and sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 101, and the touch controller can also receive and execute instructions sent by the processor 101. Additionally, the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 may be implemented using various types of resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic waves. Display (also referred to as a display screen) 104-2 may be used to display information entered by or provided to the user as well as various menus for handset 100. The display 104-2 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The touch-sensitive surface 104-1 may overlay the display 104-2, and when a touch event is detected on or near the touch-sensitive surface 104-1, it may be communicated to the processor 101 to determine the type of touch event, and the processor 101 may then provide a corresponding visual output on the display 104-2 based on the type of touch event. Although in FIG. 1 the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 and the display screen 104-2 are shown as two separate components to implement the input and output functions of the cell phone 100, in some embodiments the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 and the display screen 104-2 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the cell phone 100. It is understood that the touch screen 104 is formed by stacking multiple layers of materials, and only the touch sensitive surface (layer) and the display screen (layer) are shown in the embodiment, and other layers are not described in the embodiment. In addition, in some other embodiments of the present application, the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 may be overlaid on the display 104-2, and the size of the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 is larger than that of the display screen 104-2, so that the display screen 104-2 is completely overlaid on the touch-sensitive surface 104-1, or the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 may be disposed on the front of the mobile phone 100 in a full-panel manner, that is, the user's touch on the front of the mobile phone 100 can be sensed by the mobile phone, so that the full-touch experience on the front of the mobile phone can be achieved. In other embodiments, the touch-sensitive surface 104-1 may be disposed on the front of the mobile phone 100 in a full-panel manner, and the display screen 104-2 may also be disposed on the front of the mobile phone 100 in a full-panel manner, so that a frameless structure can be implemented on the front of the mobile phone. In some other embodiments of the present application, the touch screen 104 may further include one or more sets of sensor arrays, so that the touch screen 104 may sense a touch event of a user thereon and also sense a pressure exerted thereon by the user, and the like.

The handset 100 may also include a bluetooth device 105 for enabling data exchange between the handset 100 and other short-range terminals (e.g., cell phones, smart watches, etc.). The bluetooth device in the embodiment of the present application may be an integrated circuit or a bluetooth chip.

The handset 100 may also include at least one sensor 106, such as a fingerprint recognizer, a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. In particular, the fingerprint identifier may be disposed on the back side of the handset 100 (e.g., below the rear camera) or on the front side of the handset 100 (e.g., below the touch screen 104). In addition, the fingerprint recognition function may also be implemented by configuring a fingerprint recognizer in the touch screen 104. The light sensor may include an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the display of the touch screen 104 based on the intensity of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that turns off the display when the cell phone 100 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally, three axes), can detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used for applications of recognizing the posture of a mobile phone (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometer and tapping), and the like; as for other sensors such as a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, and an infrared sensor, which can be configured on the mobile phone 100, detailed descriptions thereof are omitted.

The WI-FI device 107 is used for providing the mobile phone 100 with network access conforming to WI-FI related standard protocols, the mobile phone 100 can be accessed to a WI-FI access point through the WI-FI device 107, so as to help a user to send and receive e-mails, browse webpages, access streaming media and the like, and the WI-FI device provides wireless broadband internet access for the user. In other embodiments, the WI-FI apparatus 107 may also be a WI-FI wireless access point, which may provide WI-FI network access for other terminals.

And a positioning device 108 for providing a geographical position for the handset 100. It can be understood that the positioning device 108 may specifically be a receiver of a positioning system such as a Global Positioning System (GPS), a beidou satellite navigation system, and the like. After receiving the geographical location transmitted by the positioning system, the positioning device 108 transmits the information to the processor 101 for processing or transmits the information to the memory 103 for storage. In some other embodiments, the positioning device 108 may be an Assisted Global Positioning System (AGPS) receiver, where the AGPS is an operation mode for performing GPS positioning with certain assistance, and it can utilize signals of base stations to coordinate with GPS satellite signals, so as to make the positioning speed of the mobile phone 100 faster; in AGPS systems, the positioning device 108 may obtain positioning assistance through communication with an assisted positioning server (e.g., a cell phone positioning server). The AGPS system assists the positioning device 108 in performing ranging and positioning services by acting as an assistance server, in which case the assistance positioning server provides positioning assistance by communicating with the positioning device 108 (i.e., GPS receiver) of the terminal, such as the handset 100, over a wireless communication network. In other embodiments, the positioning device 108 may also be a WI-FI access point based positioning technology. Each WI-FI access point has a globally unique MAC address, so that the terminal can scan and collect broadcast signals of surrounding WI-FI access points under the condition of opening the WI-FI, and can acquire the MAC address broadcasted by the WI-FI access points; the terminal sends the data (e.g., MAC address) indicating the WI-FI access points to the location server via the wireless communication network, and the location server retrieves the geographical location of each WI-FI access point, and calculates the geographical location of the terminal according to the strength of the WI-FI broadcast signal and sends the geographical location of the terminal to the positioning device 108 of the terminal.

The audio circuitry 109, speaker 113, microphone 114 can provide an audio interface between a user and the handset 100. The audio circuit 109 may transmit the electrical signal converted from the received audio data to the speaker 113, and convert the electrical signal into a sound signal by the speaker 113 for output; on the other hand, the microphone 114 converts the collected sound signal into an electrical signal, converts the electrical signal into audio data after being received by the audio circuit 109, and outputs the audio data to the RF circuit 102 to be transmitted to, for example, another cellular phone, or outputs the audio data to the memory 103 for further processing.

Peripheral interface 110, which is used to provide various interfaces for external input/output devices (e.g., keyboard, mouse, external display, external memory, SIM card, etc.). For example, a mouse via a usb interface, and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card provided by a telecommunications carrier via metal contacts on a card slot of the SIM card. Peripheral interface 110 may be used to couple the aforementioned external input/output peripherals to processor 101 and memory 103.

Illustratively, as also shown in fig. 1, in the embodiment of the present application, the mobile phone 100 may further include an eSIM card 112. The eSIM card 112 may be integrated in an SOC (system on chip) chip, a modem (modem) chip, or a Near Field Communication (NFC) chip of the mobile phone 100, which is not limited in this embodiment.

Before a user uses a communication service provided by an eSIM card in the mobile phone 100 for the first time, the user needs to download configuration information (profile) subscribed by the user for the eSIM card from the eSIM server, where the configuration information includes a set of card data and card applications required by an operator to provide the service for the user, for example, an ic id (integrated circuit card identifier), an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), a mobile subscriber international ISDN/PSTN number (MSISDN), and subscription information of the user of the profile, and the embodiment of the present application does not limit this.

After the mobile phone 100 downloads the configuration information of the eSIM card into the eSIM card, the user can enjoy various services provided by the operator through the eSIM card after activating the configuration information in the eSIM card.

In addition, since the eSIM card is a programmable device, a plurality of profiles belonging to different operators can be stored in the eSIM card, so that a user can enjoy eSIM services provided by different operators. For example, the user first signs up with carrier a through the mobile phone 100 and downloads the configuration information 1 associated with carrier a from the eSIM server, and then, when the user wishes to use the eSIM service provided by carrier B, the user can continue to download the configuration information 2 associated with carrier B from the eSIM server again, where the configuration information 1 and the configuration information 2 have different ICCIDs. Thus, the user can enjoy the eSIM service provided by different operators by switching the configuration information 1 and the configuration information 2 when using the mobile phone 100.

The mobile phone 100 may further include a power supply device 111 (such as a battery and a power management chip) for supplying power to each component, and the battery may be logically connected to the processor 101 through the power management chip, so as to implement functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power supply device 111.

Although not shown in fig. 1, the mobile phone 100 may further include a camera, a flash, a micro-projector, a Near Field Communication (NFC) device, and the like, which are not described in detail herein.

Illustratively, the memory 120 of the handset 100 may store

An operating system, which is an L inux-based mobile device operating system, implemented in conjunction with the hardware described above in cell phone 100A wide variety of functions. The storage will be described in detail below

Software architecture of an operating system. It should be noted that the examples of the present application are only for illustration purposes

The operating system is an example to illustrate a software environment required by the terminal to implement the technical solution of the present embodiment, and those skilled in the art can understand that the embodiments of the present application can also be implemented by other operating systems.

Illustratively, FIG. 2 is a diagram of a system that may operate in the terminal described above

The software architecture can be divided into four layers, namely an application program layer, an application program framework layer, a function library layer and an L inux kernel layer.

1. Application (Applications) layer

The application layer is the top layer of the operating system and includes native applications of the operating system, such as email clients, notes, calls, calendars, browsers, contacts, etc. Of course, for a developer, the developer may write an application and install it into the layer. Generally, an application is developed using Java language, and is completed by calling an Application Programming Interface (API) provided by an application framework layer.

2. Application Framework (Application Framework) layer

The application framework layer mainly provides developers with various APIs (application programming interfaces) used by the applications, and the developers can interact with the bottom layer (such as a function library, L inux kernel and the like) of the operating system through the application framework to develop own applications.

Activity Manager (Activity Manager): the system is used for managing the life cycle of an application program and providing a common navigation backspacing function;

content Providers (Content Providers): the system is used for managing data sharing and access among different application programs;

notification Manager (Notification Manager): the system is used for controlling the application program to display prompt information (such as warnings (Alerts), Notifications (Notifications) and the like) to a user in a status bar, a screen locking interface and the like;

a Resource Manager (Resource Manager) that provides non-code resources (e.g., strings, graphics and layout files (L ayout file), etc.) for use by the application;

a Clipboard Manager (Clipboard Manager) which mainly provides a copy or paste function inside an application or between applications;

view (View) with a rich, extensible set of views that can be used to build an application, which specifically includes a list (L ist), a Grid (Grid), a text box (TextBox), a Button (Button), and an embeddable web browser;

the location Manager (L assignment Manager) primarily allows applications to access the geographic location where the terminal is located.

3. Function library (L ibraries) layer

The function library layer is a support of an application Framework and is an important link for connecting the application Framework layer with an L inux kernel layer, the function library layer comprises a plurality of function libraries compiled by a computer program C language or a C + + language, the function libraries can be used by different components in an operating system and provide services for developers through the application Framework layer, specifically, the function libraries can comprise a libc function library which is specially customized for an embedded linux-based device, the function libraries can also comprise a multimedia library (Media Framework) which supports playback and recording of audio or video in a plurality of coding formats and supports static image files and common audio or video coding formats, and the function library also comprises a Surface management Manager (Surface Manager) which is mainly responsible for managing access to a display system, is specifically responsible for managing interaction between display and access operations when a plurality of applications are executed, and is also responsible for display synthesis of 2D drawings and 3D drawings.

The function library layer may also include other function libraries for implementing various functions of the mobile phone, such as:

SG L (Scalable Graphics L library), a 2D graphic image processing engine based on XM L (Extensible Markup L illustration), SS L (Secure Sockets L layer), which is positioned between TVP/IP protocol and various application layer protocols and provides support for data communication, OpenG L/ES: support for 3D effect, SQ L ite: relational database engine, Webkit: Web browser engine, FreeType: support for bitmap and vector font, and the like.

The Android Runtime is

The operating environment on the operating system is

A new virtual machine for use by an operating system. In Android Runtime, by adopting an AOT (Ahead-Of-Time) technology, when an application program is installed for the first Time, the bytecode Of the application program is compiled into machine code in advance, so that the application program becomes a real local application and then runs again, the step Of compiling is omitted, and the starting and the execution are faster.

In other embodiments of the present application, the Android Runtime may be replaced by a kernel function library (Core L ibraries) and a Dalvik Virtual Machine (Dalvik Virtual Machine), the kernel function library provides most functions in Java APIs, and provides an interface for calling an underlying library to an application framework layer mainly by way of Java Native Interfaces (JNI), and also includes some kernel APIs of the operating system, such as Android os, Android net, Android media, and so on, the Dalvik Virtual Machine uses a JIT (Just-in-Time) Runtime compilation mechanism, which requires recompiling a Virtual Machine bytecode in the background each Time a process is started, which may have a certain impact on the start-up speed, each application runs in an instance in a Dalvik Virtual Machine, each instance of the Dalvik Virtual Machine is an independent space, the Dalvik Virtual Machine is designed in a different Virtual memory management format, and the Dalvik Virtual Machine is designed to be capable of operating in a plurality of different forms of executable kernel Virtual machines, which are suitable for the Dalvik Virtual Machine.

4. L inux Kernel (L inux Kernel) layer

The layer provides core system services of an operating system, such as security, memory management, process management, a network protocol stack, a drive model and the like, and is based on an L inux kernel, wherein the L inux kernel is also used as an abstraction layer between hardware and a software stack, and the layer is provided with a plurality of drivers related to the mobile device, wherein the main drivers comprise a display driver, a frame buffer driver based on L inux, a keyboard driver as an input device, a Flash driver based on a memory technology device, a camera driver;

audio driving; driving by Bluetooth; WI-FI drives, etc.

In the embodiment of the present application, as also shown in fig. 2, the application layer further includes L PA (local profile assistant) application 374, where the L PA application 374 is management software of the eSIM card, and may be used to maintain functions of downloading, activating, deleting, and displaying each profile in the hardware of the eSIM card, and other applications (for example, an internet business hall APP of an operator) may obtain relevant information such as the profile in the eSIM card through a corresponding interface provided by the L PA application 374.

The L PA application 374 may be integrated in an eSIM card, or may run in an operating system of the mobile phone 100 as a system-level application, which is not limited in this embodiment.

With reference to the mobile phone 100 shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, as shown in fig. 3, an architectural diagram of an eSIM system provided in the embodiment of the present application is shown. The eSIM system includes an eSIM server 200 for providing an eSIM service, a business & operation support system (BOSS) 300 provided by an operator, and at least one mobile phone 100.

The BOSS 300 is a comprehensive service operation and management support platform provided by an operator. Generally comprising 4 parts of a charging and settlement system, a business and accounting system, a customer service system and a decision support system.

The eSIM server 200 may specifically be an SM-DP (subscription manager data preparation) server or an SM-DP + server. The eSIM server 200 is responsible for securely generating and managing configuration information (profile) within an eSIM card in each handset 100. As shown in fig. 3, a database 201 for maintaining configuration information in each eSIM card is provided in the eSIM server 200. Since the eSIM card in the handset 100 is not bound to any user and carrier in the initial state, it is necessary to select one carrier to open an eSIM card account associated with a user when the user uses the eSIM card for the first time. When an account is opened, the eSIM server 200 may generate and store configuration information of the eSIM card for the user in the database 201, and then the mobile phone 100 downloads the configuration information to the eSIM card of the mobile phone 100, thereby completing an account opening procedure of the eSIM card.

The configuration information (profile) may include a set of card data and card applications required by an operator to provide a service for a user, for example, an ICCID, an IMSI, and subscription information of the profile. Since the ICCID is uniquely associated with different profiles, the ICCID in different profiles within an eSIM card typically differs.

As also shown in fig. 3, the hardware layer of the mobile phone 100 includes an eSIM card embedded in the main board of the mobile phone, and the application layer of the mobile phone 100 may include L PA application for managing the eSIM card and an online business hall APP or a web page of an operator.

In the embodiment of the application, when the user uses the eSIM card for the first time, the user can open the account of the eSIM card on line on the APP or the webpage of the online business hall, so that the problems of complicated account opening process, reduced use experience and the like caused by the fact that the user goes to a physical store of the business hall of an operator to handle the account opening process are avoided.

For example, as shown in fig. 3, after the mobile phone 100 detects that the user requests to open the eSIM card account in the online business hall APP, the mobile phone 100 may apply to the BOSS system 300 for opening the eSIM card for the user. After the user completes the signing operations such as number selection and real-name authentication through the mobile phone 100, the BOSS system 300 may instruct the eSIM server 200 to generate a profile (e.g., profile a) of the eSIM card requested to be opened for the user, and notify the mobile phone 100 to acquire the profile a of the eSIM card from the eSIM server 200.

For example, after the eSIM server 200 generates the profile a of the eSIM card according to the instructions of the BOSS system 300, an index of the profile a may be transmitted to the BOSS system 300. Further, the BOSS system 300 transmits the address of the eSIM server 200 and the index of the profile a as a download address of the configuration information to the online business hall APP operating in the mobile phone 100. For example, the BOSS system 300 prepares the address of the eSIM server 200 and the index of the profile a as an activation code, and sends the activation code to the online business hall APP running in the mobile phone 100.

Then, the online business hall APP calls a preset interface provided by the L PA application, for example, a setactitioncode () function, and may transfer the activation code to the L PA application, so that the L PA application obtains the address of the eSIM server 200 and the index of the profile a after parsing the activation code, in this way, the L PA application may establish a connection with the eSIM server 200 according to the address of the eSIM server 200, and download the profile a from the eSIM server 200 to the eSIM card of the mobile phone 100 according to the index of the profile a.

After the mobile phone 100 downloads the requested profile A to the eSIM card, if the activation operation of activating the profile A is detected to be performed by a user, the L PA application may modify the flag of the profile A in the eSIM card to set the profile A in the activated state, and meanwhile, if other profiles are included in the eSIM card, the L PA application may set the other profiles in the inactivated state.

It can be seen that, in the method for opening an eSIM card provided in the embodiment of the present application, after a user performs a related operation of applying for opening an eSIM card account in an online business hall APP or a web page, the entire eSIM card opening process can be completed online without the user going to an operator business hall physical store to manually open an account, thereby simplifying the eSIM card opening process and operating efficiency, and improving the user experience of the user on the eSIM card.

In the embodiment of the present application, when the mobile phone 100 or the eSIM server 200 interacts with the BOSS system 300, specifically, when the mobile phone communicates with a related operator server (e.g., a web server) provided in the BOSS system 300, the following embodiments are described by taking an example of interaction between the mobile phone and the BOSS system or interaction between the eSIM server and the BOSS system.

With reference to the foregoing embodiment and fig. 1 to 3, in the following embodiment, an eSIM card account opening method provided by the present application will be described in detail through specific embodiments, taking a terminal as a mobile phone for example, as shown in fig. 4, where the method may include the following steps:

s401, the mobile phone receives an application operation of opening an eSIM card account executed by a user in an online business hall APP of an operator.

Because functions of a mobile phone, such as conversation, short message and network service, can be executed after the configuration of the eSIM card is completed, when a user uses the mobile phone with the built-in eSIM card for the first time, the carried eSIM card is not bound with any operator and user, so that the user can install an online business hall APP of a corresponding operator on the mobile phone after accessing a wireless network such as Wi-Fi, and further applies for opening the unused eSIM card on the online business hall APP, and the whole account opening process of opening an eSIM card account is completed online.

Alternatively, if the user has signed up for an eSIM service with a certain operator (e.g., operator a), the eSIM card may already store therein configuration information (e.g., configuration information 1) associated with operator a at this time. Then, if the user wishes to sign a contract for the eSIM service with the new operator B, in step S401, the user may also log in the online business hall APP of the operator B through the network service provided by the operator a, and then apply for opening the eSIM service provided by the operator B on the online business hall APP of the operator B, thereby completing the entire account opening procedure online.

For example, as shown in fig. 5, after a user logs in an online business hall (also referred to as a mobile phone business hall) APP 501 of an operator a, a mobile phone may display a control 601 for opening an eSIM card account on a relevant page in the APP 501. Then, if the user wishes to open the eSIM card account online, an application operation (for example, a single-click operation, a double-click operation, a long-press operation, or the like, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application) may be performed on the control 601. Thus, after receiving the application operation executed by the user in the online business hall APP, the mobile phone can continue to execute the following steps S402-S416.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the process of opening the eSIM card account online by the user is illustrated by using the online business hall APP, and it can be understood that the user may open the eSIM card account online in any application having an account opening function for the eSIM card, or the user may access the online business hall of the operator through the browser to open the eSIM card account online, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

S402, responding to the application operation, calling L PA by the online business hall APP to provide a first interface to acquire the identification of the eSIM card in the mobile phone.

S403, the online business hall APP sends an account opening request to the BOSS system, and the account opening request carries the identification of the eSIM card.

The L PA application is management software of an eSIM card in a mobile phone, and on one hand, the application can provide an interface interacting with hardware of the eSIM card and is used for writing or reading data stored in the eSIM card, and on the other hand, the L PA application can also provide an interface interacting with other third party applications such as an online business hall APP and the like and is used for transmitting the acquired related information of the eSIM card to the online business hall APP.

Certainly, the L PA application can guarantee the security of the eSIM card related information by calling the authority to the online business hall APP authorization interface in advance, or performing authentication when interacting with the online business hall APP.

In step S402, after the touch screen of the mobile phone detects that the user executes the application operation in the online business hall APP, the application operation can be reported to the online business hall APP running in the application layer after layer-by-layer encapsulation, and then, after the online business hall APP acquires the application operation, the online business hall APP can call the first interface provided by the L PA application, and acquire the identifier capable of uniquely identifying the eSIM card from the eSIM card.

For example, the first interface may specifically be a getEID () interface, and each eSIM card is provided with an EID uniquely associated therewith, so that the L PA application can obtain the EID of the eSIM card by calling the getEID () interface.

For example, the EID of the eSIM card is a 32-bit numeric String, and then the online business hall APP acquires the EID of the eSIM card by executing String EID L pa geteid ().

Further, in step S403, after the online business hall APP obtains the EID of the eSIM card, the EID can be carried in the account opening request and sent to the BOSS system of the operator corresponding to the online business hall APP, for example, the BOSS system of the china telecom, the BOSS system of the china mobile, or the BOSS system of the china Unicom, so as to request the BOSS system to open an account for the eSIM card holding the EID.

S404, responding to the account opening request, the BOSS system sends service terms for opening the eSIM card account to the mobile phone, so that the mobile phone displays the service terms through the online business hall APP.

S405, when the operation that the user agrees with the service terms is detected, the online business hall APP sends a confirmation message to the BOSS system.

In step S404, after receiving the account opening request sent by the mobile phone, the BOSS system may send the relevant service terms that the user needs to know when opening the eSIM card account to the mobile phone, and the mobile phone displays the relevant service terms to the user through the relevant page of the online business hall APP, so that the user may sign a contract for the relevant eSIM service with the operator on line through the online business hall APP.

For example, after the user clicks the control 601 for opening the eSIM card account in the online business hall APP in fig. 5, as shown in fig. 6, the online business hall APP may jump to an interface 701, and display the relevant service terms sent by the BOSS system to the mobile phone in the interface 701. A control 702 indicating that the user agrees to the service terms and a control 703 indicating that the user rejects the service terms are also arranged in the interface 701.

Then, in step S405, if the mobile phone detects that the user clicks the control 702, it indicates that the user agrees to the service terms sent by the BOSS system, at this time, the online business hall APP may generate a confirmation message and send the confirmation message to the BOSS system, so as to indicate to the BOSS system that the eSIM card user holding the EID agrees to the service terms, so that the BOSS system may continue to perform the following steps S406 to S416.

Correspondingly, if the mobile phone detects that the user clicks the control 703, it indicates that the user does not agree with the service terms sent by the BOSS system, and then the online business hall APP can terminate the account opening process of opening the eSIM card with the EID and return to the home page or login interface of the online business hall APP.

S406, responding to the confirmation message, the BOSS system sends the candidate telephone number and the candidate service package to the mobile phone, so that the mobile phone displays the candidate telephone number and the candidate service package through the online business hall APP.

S407, when detecting that the user selects the target telephone number and the target service package, the online business hall APP sends the target telephone number and the identification of the target service package to the BOSS system.

When the user agrees with the service terms sent by the BOSS system, the BOSS system can receive the confirmation information sent by the mobile phone through the online business hall APP. Then, in step S406, the BOSS system may send the currently available candidate phone number and the information related to the candidate service package to the mobile phone, and the mobile phone displays the candidate phone number and the candidate service package through the online business hall APP, so that the user may select the phone number and the service content bound to the eSIM card online.

Illustratively, if the user clicks the service provision item control 702 shown in fig. 6, which indicates that the user agrees to the service provision item sent by the BOSS system, then, as shown in fig. 7, the online business hall APP may jump to an interface 801, and display one or more candidate phone numbers 802 and candidate service packages 803 sent by the BOSS system to the mobile phone in the interface 701, so that the user may select a target phone number and a target service package for an eSIM card to be activated online in the online business hall APP.

In step S407, the user may select a phone number desired by the user as a target phone number from the candidate phone numbers 802, and select a service package desired by the user as a target service package from the candidate service packages 803, and bind the service package to an eSIM card that the user is ready to provision. As also shown in FIG. 7, the submit button 804 may be clicked when the user selects "133-. In this way, after the online business hall APP detects that the user clicks the submit button 804, the target telephone number selected by the user and the identifier of the target service package can be sent to the BOSS system, so that the target telephone number selected by the user and the signed data such as the target service package can be bound to the eSIM card of the user in the following process, and the online account opening process of the eSIM card is completed.

S408, the online business hall APP obtains authentication information of the user identity, and sends the authentication information to the BOSS system for real-name authentication.

In step S408, in order to reduce the probability that a lawless person will perform a lawless action with a mobile phone, the user may also complete the real-name authentication process of the user identity on line in the online business hall APP. For example, after the user submits the selected target telephone number and the target service package in the interface 801 shown in fig. 7, as shown in fig. 8, the online business hall APP may jump to the interface 901, and controls for filling out user authentication information such as a name 902, identification card information 903, and an address 904 are displayed in the interface 901. When the user fills the identity authentication information in the interface 901, the user can submit the identity authentication information to the BOSS system, and the BOSS system performs real-name authentication on the user identity.

Certainly, the user can also upload the photo of the identity card, or the information of the user such as the recording and the video fingerprint as the authentication information of the user identity to the online business hall APP, and the online business hall APP sends the authentication information to the BOSS system for real-name authentication.

It should be noted that, the above-mentioned real-name authentication process may also be performed before the user selects the target phone number and the target service package, which is not limited in this application.

And S409, after the user passes the real-name authentication, the BOSS system sends indication information to the eSIM server, and the indication information is used for indicating the eSIM server to generate configuration information of the eSIM card for the user.

And S410, after the eSIM server generates the configuration information of the eSIM card for the user according to the indication information, sending the index of the configuration information to the BOSS system.

In step S409, the BOSS system may authenticate the identity of the user according to the received identity authentication information, and if the identity of the user passes the authentication, it indicates that the user currently requesting to open the eSIM card account is a valid user. At this time, the BOSS system may carry, in the indication information, related subscription data signed by the user with the operator through the steps S404 to S409, for example, an ICCID of a profile to be generated, a state of the subscription data, a memory to be allocated, a management policy of the subscription data, and the like, and send the indication information to the eSIM server, so as to indicate the eSIM server to generate configuration information (profile) of an eSIM card to be provisioned for the user according to the subscription data.

Further, in step S410, after receiving the indication information sent by the BOSS system, the eSIM server may generate corresponding configuration information for the eSIM card of the user according to the subscription data carried in the indication information, where the configuration information includes a set of card data and card applications required by the operator to provide the eSIM service for the user.

The eSIM server can generate the configuration information (profile) of the eSIM card based on a profile generation rule specified in the eSIM card remote over-the-air number writing technical specification. For example, the configuration information of the generated eSIM card may include IMSI, MSISDN, ICCID, and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment.

Then, after the eSIM server generates the configuration information of the eSIM card for the user according to the indication information, an index (e.g., MatchingID) for searching the configuration information may be sent to the BOSS system, where the index of the configuration information is used to indicate a storage location of the configuration information in the eSIM server, so that the subsequent BOSS system notifies the mobile phone to download the configuration information of the generated eSIM card from the eSIM server.

S411, the BOSS system sends an activation code for downloading the configuration information to an online business hall APP running on the mobile phone, wherein the activation code comprises an eSIM server address and an index of the configuration information.

In step S411, after receiving the index sent by the eSIM server, the BOSS system indicates that the eSIM server has generated configuration information of the eSIM card for the user, and further, the BOSS system may encode the address of the eSIM server and the index of the configuration information into an activation code (activation code) and send the activation code to the mobile phone. The specific format of the activation code may be defined by a specification provided by the GSMA (global system for mobile communications and public interest and interest) association, which is not limited in any way by the embodiment of the present application.

S412, the second interface provided by the online business hall APP calling L PA application transfers the activation code to the L PA application.

The S413 and L PA application parses the activation code to obtain an eSIM server address and an index of configuration information of an eSIM card generated by the eSIM server for the user.

In step S412, after receiving the activation code sent by the BOSS system, the mobile phone may report the activation code to the online business hall APP initiating the eSIM card provisioning request, because the online business hall APP does not have the right to read and write the eSIM card in the mobile phone, and the L PA application has the right to read and write the eSIM card in the mobile phone, the online business hall APP may transfer the activation code sent by the BOSS system to the L PA application by using the second interface provided by the L PA application.

The second interface is an interface provided by the L PA application and used for transferring the activation code acquired by the third-party application (for example, the online business hall APP) to the L PA application.

For example, the second interface may specifically be a setActivationCode () interface, and then, the online business office APP may transfer the activation code to the L PA application by executing eSIM L PA.

In step S413, the L PA application may obtain the activation code and then analyze the activation code to obtain the address of the eSIM server (e.g., UR L of the eSIM server) carried in the activation code and an index of the configuration information generated by the eSIM server for the eSIM card.

Of course, in other embodiments of the present application, after the received activation code is analyzed by the online business hall APP, the second interface may be further invoked to transfer the address of the eSIM server carried in the analyzed activation code and the index of the configuration information generated by the eSIM server for the eSIM card to the L PA application, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

The S414 and L PA applications establish a connection with the eSIM server according to the eSIM server address, and download the configuration information of the eSIM card in the eSIM server according to the index of the configuration information.

The S415 and L PA application writes the configuration information of the eSIM card into the eSIM card built in the mobile phone.

In steps S414-S415, after obtaining the address of the eSIM server, the L PA application can establish a connection with the eSIM server according to the address, and then, the configuration information generated by the eSIM server for the eSIM card in the mobile phone can be found in the eSIM server according to the index of the configuration information, and the configuration information is downloaded from the eSIM server to the memory of the mobile phone (for example, the memory of the mobile phone), and then the L PA application writes the configuration information into the eSIM card, so that the eSIM card in the mobile phone can be bound with the eSIM service signed by the user and the user in the online business office APP.

At this time, as shown in fig. 9, after the L PA application writes the downloaded configuration information into the eSIM card, a message that the configuration information has been successfully downloaded may be returned to the online business hall APP, and at this time, the online business hall APP may jump to the interface 1001 to display the message that the configuration information in the eSIM card has been successfully configured to the user, and prompt the user to activate the configuration information of the eSIM card, so that the eSIM service can be opened.

And S416, after detecting that the user performs the activation operation for activating the configuration information, the L PA application sets the configuration information to be in an activated state, and the terminal can use the activated configuration information for communication.

Similar to a conventional SIM card, the eSIM card also needs to be activated before it is used for the first time. Since the eSIM card is programmable, a user can sign up for different services with different operators, and thus, multiple pieces of configuration information belonging to different operators may be stored in the eSIM card, and only one piece of configuration information in the eSIM card is allowed to be activated for use by the mobile phone at the same time.

Therefore, as shown in fig. 9, when the online business hall APP displays a message that the downloaded configuration information is configured successfully to the user, an activation link 1002 for activating the configuration information just downloaded may be further set in the interface 1001, then, if it is detected that the user clicks the activation link 1002, as shown in fig. 10, the mobile phone may jump to an eSIM card manager with a setting function, and when it is detected that the user clicks an activation button 1003 of the eSIM card, the L PA application may set the configuration information downloaded in step S415 to an activation state, at which time the eSIM card may provide a normal eSIM service to the user using the configuration information in the activation state.

Meanwhile, through the steps S401-S416, the user can complete the whole opening and activating process of the eSIM card on line through the online business hall APP without going to an entity business hall of an operator to handle a manual account opening process, so that the account opening process and the operation efficiency of the eSIM card are simplified, and the use experience of the user on the eSIM card is improved.

It is to be understood that the above-mentioned terminal and the like include hardware structures and/or software modules corresponding to the respective functions for realizing the above-mentioned functions. Those of skill in the art will readily appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as hardware or combinations of hardware and computer software. Whether a function is performed as hardware or computer software drives hardware depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the embodiments of the present application.

In the embodiment of the present application, the terminal and the like may be divided into functional modules according to the method example, for example, each functional module may be divided corresponding to each function, or two or more functions may be integrated into one processing module. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode. It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the division of the module is schematic, and is only one logic function division, and there may be another division manner in actual implementation.

In the case of adopting a method of dividing each functional module corresponding to each function, fig. 11 shows a schematic structure diagram of a terminal related in the foregoing embodiment, where the terminal is configured to implement the method described in each method embodiment, and the method specifically includes: an acquisition unit 1101, a transmission unit 1102, a display unit 1103, a download unit 1104, a writing unit 1105, and an activation unit 1106.

The obtaining unit 1101 is configured to support the terminal to execute the processes S401, S402, S404, S406, and S411 in fig. 4, the sending unit 1102 is configured to support the terminal to execute the processes S403, S405, S407, and S412 in fig. 4, the downloading unit 1104 is configured to support the terminal to execute the process S414 in fig. 4, the writing unit 1105 is configured to support the terminal to execute the process S415 in fig. 4, the activating unit 1106 is configured to support the terminal to execute the process S416 in fig. 4, the display unit 1103 is configured to display service provision for opening an eSIM card account, an interface for displaying an online business hall APP such as a candidate phone number and a candidate service package at the time of signing, and an interface for L PA.

In the case of an integrated unit, as shown in fig. 12, a schematic diagram of a possible structure of the terminal involved in the above embodiments is shown, which includes a processing module 1201, a communication module 1202, an input/output module 1203, and a storage module 1204.

The processing module 1201 is configured to control and manage an action of the terminal. The communication module 1202 is used for supporting communication between the terminal and other network entities. The input/output module 1203 is used for receiving information input by a user or outputting information provided to the user and various menus of the terminal. The storage module 1204 is used for storing program codes and data of the terminal.

Illustratively, the Processing module 1201 may be a Processor or a controller, such as a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a GPU, a general purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other Programmable logic device, a transistor logic device, a hardware component, or any combination thereof. Which may implement or perform the various illustrative logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the disclosure. The processor may also be a combination of computing functions, e.g., comprising one or more microprocessors, DSPs, and microprocessors, among others.

The communication module 1202 may be a transceiver, transceiver circuitry, an input-output device or a communication interface, etc. For example, the communication module 2002 may be specifically a bluetooth device, a Wi-Fi device, a peripheral interface, and so on.

The memory module 1204 may be a memory, which may include high speed Random Access Memory (RAM), and may also include non-volatile memory, such as a magnetic disk storage device, a flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The input/output module 1203 may be an input/output device such as a touch screen, a keyboard, a microphone, a display, and the like. The display may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. In addition, a touch pad may be integrated with the display for collecting touch events thereon or nearby and transmitting the collected touch information to other devices (e.g., a processor, etc.).

The computer instructions may be stored in or transmitted from a computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium, e.g., from a website, computer, server, or data center via a wired (e.g., coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line (DS L)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) manner to another website, computer, server, or data center.

The above description is only an embodiment of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present disclosure should be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

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1. An account opening method for an eSIM card, comprising:

   a terminal sends an account opening request of an eSIM card to an operator server, wherein the account opening request is used for requesting the operator server to acquire configuration information required by the eSIM card;

   the terminal receives a download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server;

   the terminal downloads the configuration information according to the download address;

   the terminal writes the configuration information into the eSIM card;

   the terminal prompts a user that the configuration information is successfully configured in the eSIM card.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal sending an account opening request for the eSIM card to the operator server comprises:

   the terminal runs the online business hall application of an operator;

   the terminal receives an application operation executed by a user in the online business hall application, wherein the application operation is used for requesting to open an account in the eSIM card;

   and responding to the application operation, the terminal sends an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server, wherein the account opening request carries the identification of the eSIM card.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein in response to the application operation, the terminal sending an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server, comprises:

   in response to the application operation, the online business hall application calls a first interface provided by a local configuration file assistant L PA application to acquire the identifier of the eSIM card, the first interface is used for transmitting the identifier of the eSIM card to the online business hall application, and the L PA application is management software of the eSIM card;

   and the online business hall application carries the identification of the eSIM card in an account opening request and sends the identification to the operator server.
4. The method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the terminal receives the download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server, and comprises:

   the online business hall application acquires a download address sent by the operator server;

   the online lobby application passes the download address to the L PA application.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the online lobby application passes the download address to an L PA application comprising:

   the online business hall application calls a second interface provided by the L PA application and transmits the download address to the L PA application, and the second interface is used for transmitting the download address acquired by the online business hall application to the L PA application.
6. The method of claim 4 or 5, wherein the download address comprises an address of an eSIM server and an index of the configuration information stored in the eSIM server;

   wherein, the terminal downloads the configuration information according to the download address, including:

   the L PA application instructs the terminal to establish a connection with the eSIM server according to the address of the eSIM server;

   the L PA application instructs the terminal to download the configuration information in the eSIM server according to the index of the configuration information.
7. The method according to any one of claims 3-6, wherein the terminal writing the configuration information to the eSIM card comprises:

   the L PA application writes the configuration information to the eSIM card.
8. The method according to any one of claims 1-7, wherein after the terminal sends an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server, and before the terminal receives the download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server, further comprising:

   the terminal displays the candidate telephone number sent by the operator server;

   if a first input that a user selects a target telephone number from the candidate telephone numbers is received, the terminal sends an identifier of the target telephone number to the operator server;

   the terminal displays the candidate service package sent by the operator server;

   and if second input that the target service package is selected from the candidate service packages by the user is received, the terminal sends the identifier of the target service package to the operator server.
9. The method according to any one of claims 1-8, further comprising, after the terminal writes the configuration information to the eSIM card:

   and when detecting that the activation operation of activating the configuration information is input by the user, the terminal sets the configuration information to be in an activation state and provides an eSIM service by using the configuration information.
10. A terminal, comprising: an eSIM card, a processor, a memory, a display, and a transceiver;

    the memory is used for storing computer-executable instructions, and the processor is coupled with the memory and executes the computer-executable instructions stored by the memory when the terminal runs, so as to cause the terminal to execute the following steps:

    the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request of the eSIM card to an operator server, the account opening request being used for requesting the operator server to acquire configuration information required by the eSIM card;

    the processor receives a download address of the configuration information sent by the operator server through the transceiver;

    the processor instructs the transceiver to download the configuration information according to the download address;

    the processor writes the configuration information to the eSIM card;

    the processor instructs the display to prompt a user that the configuration information has been successfully configured within the eSIM card.
11. The terminal of claim 10, wherein the memory has stored therein an online lobby application, and wherein the processor is configured to instruct the transceiver to transmit an account opening request for the eSIM card to a carrier server, comprising:

    the online business hall application operated by the processor receives application operation executed by a user, wherein the application operation is used for requesting to open an account in the eSIM card;

    responding to the application operation, the online business hall application operated by the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request of the eSIM card to the operator server, wherein the account opening request carries the identification of the eSIM card.
12. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the memory has stored therein a local profile assistant L PA application, the L PA application being management software for the eSIM card, wherein the online lobby application run by the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request for the eSIM card to the carrier server, comprising:

    the online business hall application operated by the processor calls a first interface provided by the L PA application to acquire the identification of the eSIM card, and the first interface is used for transmitting the identification of the eSIM card to the online business hall application;

    and the online business hall application operated by the processor carries the identification of the eSIM card in an account opening request to indicate the transceiver to send to the operator server.
13. The terminal according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the processor receives, via the transceiver, a download address of the configuration information transmitted by the operator server, and comprises:

    the online business hall application operated by the processor acquires a download address sent by the operator server;

    the online lobby application run by the processor passes the download address to the L PA application.
14. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the online lobby application run by the processor passes the download address to the L PA application comprising:

    the online business hall application operated by the processor calls a second interface provided by the L PA application and transmits the download address to the L PA application, and the second interface is used for transmitting the download address acquired by the online business hall application to the L PA application.
15. The terminal according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the download address comprises an address of an eSIM server and an index of the configuration information stored in the eSIM server;

    wherein the processor instructs the transceiver to download the configuration information according to the download address, including:

    the L PA application run by the processor instructing the transceiver to establish a connection with the eSIM server at an address of the eSIM server;

    the L PA application run by the processor instructs the transceiver to download the configuration information in the eSIM server as indexed by the configuration information.
16. The terminal of any of claims 12-15, wherein the processor writes the configuration information to the eSIM card, comprising:

    the L PA application run by the processor writes the configuration information to the eSIM card.
17. The terminal of any one of claims 10-16, further comprising, after the processor instructs the transceiver to send an account opening request for the eSIM card to a carrier server:

    the processor instructs the display to display candidate phone numbers sent by the operator server;

    if a first input that a user selects a target telephone number from the candidate telephone numbers is received, the processor instructs the transceiver to send an identification of the target telephone number to the operator server;

    the processor instructs the display to display candidate service packages sent by the operator server;

    if a second input that a user selects a target service package from the candidate service packages is received, the processor instructs the transceiver to send an identification of the target service package to the operator server.
18. The terminal of any of claims 10-17, further comprising, after the processor writes the configuration information to the eSIM card:

    upon detecting an activation operation in which a user input activates the configuration information, the L PA application run by the processor sets the configuration information to an active state and provides an eSIM service using the configuration information.
19. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein, which when run on a terminal, cause the terminal to perform the method of opening an account for an eSIM card of any one of claims 1-9.
20. A computer program product comprising instructions for causing a terminal to perform the method for opening an account for an eSIM card of any one of claims 1-9 when the computer program product is run on the terminal.

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