Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for providing network broadcast information to WLAN enabled wireless communication devices
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Application No.: US14941388Application Date: 2015-11-13
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Publication No.: US09967859B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Adrian Buckley , Vytautas Robertas Kezys
- Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W72/00 ; H04W4/06 ; H04W48/10 ; H04W48/14 ; H04W52/02 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
One illustrative method for a wireless device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes receiving a network interworking indicator at the wireless device, the network interworking indicator indicating support of a capability of the WLAN to communicate information relating to a wireless network. A request for network information identifying one or more networks is transmitted from the wireless device to the WLAN. The network information is received in response to the request for network information. The network information is provided in a container field of a generic container.
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