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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
May. 09, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sarma V. Vangala, Campbell, CA (US);
Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;
Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, San Diego, CA (US);
Ralf Rossbach, Munich, DE;
Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Ramon, CA (US);
Sree Ram Kodali, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US);
Srirang A. Lovlekar, Fremont, CA (US);
Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuqin Chen, Beijing, CN;
Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) is configured to join a standalone non-public network (SNPN). The receives SNPN information from one or more broadcast messages transmitted from a base station serving as an onboarding base station for the SNPN, determines whether the onboarding base station may be used for onboarding by the UE based on the SNPN information and UE SNPN information stored at the UE and onboards the UE to the SNPN when it is determined that the onboarding base station may be used for onboarding by the UE.