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Wireless local area network (WLAN) connectivity option discovery

  • US 10,375,705 B2
  • Filed: 09/12/2014
  • Issued: 08/06/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

  • receive circuitry to receive, in a public land mobile network (PLMN) list information element (IE), an indication of a PLMN with which a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) is to communicate via S2a connectivity over an S2a interface between the WLAN AP and the PLMN; and

    WLAN circuitry coupled with the receive circuitry, the WLAN circuitry to;

    identify a WLAN selection policy (SP) of an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) management object (MO) and a preference indicator of the ANDSF MO, wherein the preference indicator is separated from the WLAN SP and preferences selection of WLAN with S2a connectivity; and

    select, based on the preference indicator and the indication of the PLMN in the PLMN list IE, the WLAN AP as a target to which the UE is to communicatively couple,wherein;

    the UE further includes transmit circuitry coupled with the receive circuitry, the transmit circuitry to;

    transmit an access network query protocol (ANQP) query to the WLAN AP; and

    establish, based on a selection of the WLAN AP as the target, a connection with the WLAN AP;

    the receive circuitry is further to receive the PLMN list IE in an ANQP response that is based on the ANQP query; and

    the ANQP query or the ANQP response includes an indication related to a PLMN parameter of the WLAN AP.

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