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Patent No.:

US 9967859 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 13, 2015

Methods and apparatus for providing network broadcast information to wlan enabled wireless communication devices

Applicant:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Adrian Buckley, Tracy, CA (US);

Vytautas Robertas Kezys, Hamilton, CA;

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;

Attorney:

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Rhonda Murphy

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 48/10 (2009.01); H04W 48/14 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/005 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 48/10 (2013.01); H04W 48/14 (2013.01); H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

One illustrative method for a wireless device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes receiving a network interworking indicator at the wireless device, the network interworking indicator indicating support of a capability of the WLAN to communicate information relating to a wireless network. A request for network information identifying one or more networks is transmitted from the wireless device to the WLAN. The network information is received in response to the request for network information. The network information is provided in a container field of a generic container.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Buckley, Adrian. (2018). Methods and apparatus for providing network broadcast information to wlan enabled wireless communication devices (U.S. Patent No. 9967859). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9967859

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