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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
May. 25, 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Qin Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are apparatus, systems and methods for enhanced PLMN selection using priority class information. A method may comprise, at a user equipment ('UE'), identifying a plurality of networks, each network having an assigned priority class indicator, identifying a first network of the plurality of networks as having a first priority class indicator, identifying a second network of the plurality of networks as having the first priority class indicator, identifying the first priority class indicator as the highest priority class of the assigned priority class indicators, and selecting between the first network and the second network based a quality characteristic.