IP Library Granted Patent US 11,356,937
Granted Patent B2
US 11,356,937 · App. 15/129,372 · Granted Jun 7, 2022

Techniques for coordinated application of wireless network selection and traffic routing rules

Inventor: Vivek Gupta (San Jose, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W48/18H04W28/08H04W48/14
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Patent No.
US 11,356,937
App. No.
15/129,372
Granted
Jun 7, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Techniques for coordinated application of wireless network selection and traffic routing rules are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise at least on radio frequency (RF) transceiver, at least one RF antenna, and logic at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to process a received radio resource control (RRC) message comprising radio access network (RAN) assistance information, evaluate a threshold condition of an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) management object (MO) routing policy based on an access threshold comprised in the RAN assistance information and a corresponding measurement, and apply the ANDSF MO routing policy to route internet protocol (IP) traffic based on the evaluation of the threshold condition. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims (11)

1. User equipment (UE), comprising:

at least one radio frequency (RF) transceiver;

at least one RF antenna; and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to:

use home access network discovery and selection function (H-ANDSF) policies in a visited public land mobile network (V-PLMN);

ignore one or more validity conditions associated with radio access network (RAN) assistance information in conjunction with applying an H-ANDSF routing policy to route one or more internet protocol (IP) traffic flows when the UE is operating in the V-PLMN; and

apply a validity condition associated with an offload preference indicator (OPI) bitmap provided by the V-PLMN while applying the H-ANDSF routing policy.

2. The UE of claim 1 , the logic to process a radio resource control (RRC) information associated with a serving cell of the UE, the RRC information to comprise the RAN assistance information including one or more access thresholds.

3. The UE of claim 2 , the one or more access thresholds to include one or more reference signal received power (RSRP) thresholds.

4. The UE of claim 2 , the one or more access thresholds to include one or more reference signal received quality (RSRQ) thresholds.

5. The UE of claim 2 , the one or more access thresholds to include one or more basic service set (BSS) load thresholds.

6. The UE of claim 2 , the one or more access thresholds to include one or more backhaul thresholds.

Assignments (3)
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Mar 30, 2023
From: INTEL CORP.
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 063190/0660 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 26, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 053307/0500 →
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 25, 2020
From: INTEL IP CORPORATION
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053051/0139 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61969785 · Mar 24, 2014
Related Publication 20170181070A1 · Jun 22, 2017