Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Access network discovery and selection function enhancement with cell-type management object
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Application No.: US14967625Application Date: 2015-12-14
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Publication No.: US10091721B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Zhi Cui , Farooq Bari
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Hartman & Citrin LLC
- Main IPC: H04W48/18
- IPC: H04W48/18 ; H04W48/16 ; H04W28/08 ; H04W52/02

Abstract:
Concepts and technologies described herein relate to an enhancement to an access network discovery and selection function (“ANDSF”) with a cell-type management object (“MO”) within an ANDSF MO tree. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a system including an ANDSF can generate a policy for network selection. The policy can include network selection criteria based upon a cell-type. The cell-type may be a small cell cell-type, a macro cell cell-type, or a multi-standard metro cell (“MSMC”) cell-type. The network selection criteria can be further based upon WI-FI availability. The system can send the policy to a mobile device. The mobile device can utilize the policy to select a network. In some embodiments, the network selection criteria includes network load information, local device information, user profile information, or some combination thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160100357A1 Access Network Discovery and Selection Function Enhancement With Cell-Type Management Object Public/Granted day:2016-04-07
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