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System and method of offloading traffic to a wireless local area network

  • US 10,098,028 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2013
  • Issued: 10/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

  • determining, at the UE, if a serving base station of a Radio Access Network (RAN) supports interworking between wireless local area network (WLAN) and RAN;

    based upon the determination, determining whether to access the serving base station before associating or exchanging transmissions with a WLAN access point (AP), wherein a policy from a core network (CN) indicates a type of traffic for which to access the serving base station before associating or exchanging transmissions with the WLAN AP for the type of traffic; and

    associating or exchanging transmissions with the WLAN AP for the type of traffic after accessing the serving base station for the type of traffic, based on the policy,wherein the type of traffic comprises at least one of Internet Protocol (IP) flows, bearer, or access point name (APN) traffic.

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