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

  • US 9,906,983 B2
  • Filed: 09/21/2014
  • Issued: 02/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A User Equipment (UE) comprising:

  • a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) transceiver to communicate with a WLAN;

    a cellular transceiver to communicate via a cellular link traffic of one or more Packet Data Network (PDN) connections, the cellular transceiver to receive Radio Access Network (RAN) assistance information, and offloadability information indicating which PDN connection of the one or more PDN connections is to be allowed to be offloaded to the WLAN and which PDN connection is not to be allowed to be offloaded to the WLAN, the cellular transceiver to receive, in response to establishment of a PDN connection of the UE, a WLAN offloadability indication to indicate whether the established PDN connection is offloadable or not offloadable to the WLAN; and

    control circuitry to offload traffic of at least one PDN connection to the WLAN based on the RAN assistance information and the offloadability information.

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