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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2023
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Ian Neild, London, GB;
Andrew Reeves, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London, GB;
Abstract
A method () of operating a wireless telecommunications network (), said network comprising a plurality of User Equipment (), UEs, a Wireless Access Point (), WAP, and a Wireless Local Area Network (), WLAN, provided by means of the WAP, the method comprising the steps of: associating, against each of the plurality of UEs, an item of information and a unique character slot for the item of information (); compiling each item of information into a string, wherein said items of information are arranged according to each associated character slot (); broadcasting, by means of the WAP, a network identifier for the WLAN, said network identifier comprising the compiled string (); identifying, by means of each of the UEs, the broadcast network identifier (); retrieving, by means of each UE, the character slot for the associated UE; and using, by means of each UE, the retrieved character slot so as to extract the associated item of information from the identified network identifier.