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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:
Feb. 28, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 04, 2014
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Filip Mestanov, Sollentuna, SE;

Stephen Rayment, Ottawa, CA;

Christofer Lindheimer, Linköping, SE;

Guido Hiertz, Aachen, DE;

Eric Nordström, Stockholm, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04W 48/14 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0022 (2013.01); H04W 28/08 (2013.01); H04W 48/14 (2013.01); H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01); H04W 88/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and a wireless access node for enabling management of cellular connectivity of a wireless device as well as a method and a wireless device for providing information about availability of cellular connectivity towards a radio network node are disclosed. The wireless device has Wi-Fi radio for access to the wireless access node and cellular radio for access to the radio network node. The wireless device sends, to the wireless access node, a second message, which indicates to the wireless access node availability of the cellular connectivity. The wireless access node manages the cellular connectivity based on the second message.


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