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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Singapore, SG;

Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US);

Yifan Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);

Alistair M. McFarlane, London, GB;

Ruben Caballero, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 72/10 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 76/18 (2018.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/28 (2009.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/10 (2013.01); H04W 36/0079 (2018.08); H04W 36/28 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 76/18 (2018.02); H04M 15/8038 (2013.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02);
Abstract

A device is configured to establish a first roaming network connection to a first roaming network and a second roaming network connection to a second roaming network. The first roaming network has a higher priority than the second roaming network, the second roaming network configured to support a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT, the first RAT having a higher priority than the second RAT. When a current network connection is the second roaming network connection, determining a current RAT used for the second roaming network connection. When the current RAT is the first RAT, determining between an active use state and a non-active use state. When the device is in the active use state, deactivating a capability to reselect to the first roaming network.


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