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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexandre Stojanovski, Paris, FR;
Robert Zaus, Munich, DE;
Puneet Jain, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Portland, OR (US);
Ellen Liao, Portland, OR (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
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.