US 11,910,264 B2
Network reselection method and apparatus
Li Shen, Shenzhen (CN); Zhenrong Wei, Shenzhen (CN); Guanzhong Tan, Dongguan (CN); and Jianhua Cai, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Appl. No. 17/269,772
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
PCT Filed Aug. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/101761
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/038401, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201810961680.1 (CN), filed on Aug. 22, 2018; and application No. 201811535711.3 (CN), filed on Dec. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0321316 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/32 (2013.01) [H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
obtaining, by a user equipment (UE), a first geographical location in which the UE is currently located;
determining, according to a correspondence between at least one second geographical location and network information of a first communications network, the at least one second geographical location, wherein each second geographical location of the at least one second geographical location, relative to the first geographical location, meets a preset proximity condition, and wherein the correspondence is stored by the UE;
determining, by the UE, network information of at least one second communications network corresponding to the at least one second geographical location, wherein the network information of the at least one second communications network comprises, for each second communications network of the at least one second communications network, one or more of a radio access technology or a cell identity; and
performing, by the UE, network reselection processing based on the network information of the at least one second communications network corresponding to the at least one second geographical location, and camping, by the UE, on the at least one second communications network.