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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2021
Koninklijke Kpn N.v., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Antonius Norp, The Hague, NL;
Pascal Mathieu Agnes Marie Heijnen, Sittard, NL;
Koninklijke KPN N.V., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
One aspect of this disclosure pertains to a dual-connection device configured to connect: to a local network as a local device, the local network connecting the dual-connection device and one or more further local devices providing one or more local services in the local network; and to a telecommunications network as a user device, wherein the telecommunications network has registered a user device group comprising the dual-connection device and one or more further user devices in the telecommunications network; The dual-connection device is further configured to enable at least one of advertisement of and discovery of at least one of the one or more local devices and one or more local services available in the local network for the one or more further user devices in the user device group in the telecommunications network. The dual-connection device may further be configured to enable at least one of advertisement of and discovery of at least one of the one or more further user devices in the user device group and one or more services provided by the one or more further user devices for the one or more local devices in the local network.