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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. 27, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Huawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd., Dongguan, CN;

Inventors:

Hui Jin, Beijing, CN;

Guodong Xue, Shenzhen, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 48/02 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 36/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 48/02 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 36/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and device for switching between networks, where the method includes, if a notification that a signal of a first operator network is lost is received from a user equipment (UE), sending a temporary operational profile (OP) request to a remote management platform of a second operator network; receiving a temporary OP and a validity period of the temporary OP; instructing the UE to detect signal strength of the first operator network, and accessing the second operator network using the temporary OP; and before the validity period of the temporary OP expires, if it is determined according to the signal strength of the first operator network that the signal of the first operator network is recovered, re-accessing the first operator network.


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