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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sriram Venkataramanan, San Jose, CA (US);
Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Sai Kiran Gummuluri, San Jose, CA (US);
Yifan Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) connected to a first home cell of a home public land mobile network (HPLMN). The method includes determining a type of the first home cell, when the type is a first type, determining a first quality of the connection to the first home cell, in response to the first quality not satisfying a first predetermined threshold or a determination that the type is a second type, disconnecting from the HPLMN, connecting to a first visited cell of a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN), determining a second quality of the connection to the first visited cell and when the second quality of the connection to the first visited cell is above a second predetermined threshold, performing a data exchange via the first visited cell.