Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Access network, selection and connection methods, devices, and computer programs
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Application No.: US14907476Application Date: 2013-07-29
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Publication No.: US10200943B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Miguel Angel Garcia Martin , Pablo Martinez De La Cruz
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Baker Botts, LLP
- International Application: PCT/EP2013/065892 WO 20130729
- International Announcement: WO2015/014383 WO 20150205
- Main IPC: H04W48/18
- IPC: H04W48/18 ; H04W76/10 ; H04W48/16 ; G06K7/14 ; H04B5/00

Abstract:
In a telecommunication network, a method is carried out for assisting a user terminal (100) in connecting to an access network. The user terminal (100) obtains (s20) information (50), i.e. “tag information”, from an electronic tag or a visual tag. The user terminal (100) transmits (s40), to a network node hosting an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF), i.e. to an “ANDSF node” (200), the tag information (50). The ANDSF node (200) then transmits (s60), to the user terminal (100), credentials (70) for allowing the user terminal (100) to connect to said access network. The invention also relates to methods carried out by a user terminal (100), to methods carried out by an ANDSF node (200), to user terminals (100), to ANDSF nodes (200), to computer programs, and to computer program products for assisting user terminals (100) in connecting to an access network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160183180A1 Access Network, Selection and Connection Methods, Devices, and Computer Programs Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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