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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:
Jun. 25, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alexandre Stojanovski, Paris, FR;

Robert Zaus, Munich, DE;

Puneet Jain, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Portland, OR (US);

Ellen Liao, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 60/04 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 48/12 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 60/04 (2013.01); H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 48/12 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus of user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to process at least one non-public network (NPN) identifier (NPN-ID) broadcast by an NPN and zero or more Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) identifier (PLMN-ID) broadcast by a PLMN, to compare the NPN-ID against a logical list of NPN-IDs and PLMN-IDs ranked in decreasing order of priority, and to connect with the highest ranked processed NPN or PLMN based on a rank of the NPN-ID in the list. The apparatus can include a memory to store the list of NPN-IDs and PLMN-IDs as a logical list of Equivalent Home Networks or as Operator Controlled Network Selector with Access Technology list.


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