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Apparatus, system and method of providing offloadability information to a user-equipment (UE)

  • US 9,820,187 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2015
  • Issued: 11/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A mobility management entity (MME) comprising:

  • a memory unit to store a set of one or more instructions; and

    a processor to execute one or more instructions in the set of one or more instructions to;

    receive, from a home subscriber server (HSS), access point name (APN) offloadability information to indicate, for an APN, whether wireless local area network (WLAN) offload is to be allowable or not allowable for the APN;

    determine, based at least on the APN offloadability information, WLAN offloadability information to indicate which packet data network (PDN) connection is to be allowed to be offloaded to WLAN and which PDN connection is not to be allowed to be offloaded to WLAN; and

    in response to establishment of a PDN connection of a user equipment (UE), provide to the UE WLAN offloadability information corresponding to the established PDN connection to indicate whether the established PDN connection is offloadable or not offloadable to WLAN.

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