US 12,262,446 B2
Providing a roaming policy federation in a third generation partnership project (3GPP) network environment
Mark Grayson, Berkshire (GB); Timothy Peter Stammers, Raleigh, NC (US); Desmond Joseph O'Connor, London (GB); and Bart A. Brinckman, Nevele (BE)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/954,717.
Application 17/954,717 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/315,581, filed on May 10, 2021, granted, now 11,700,525.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/073,642, filed on Sep. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0021642 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 8/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/12 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
encoding at least one multi-bit roaming policy for an identity provider and a plurality of bit-wise combinatorial permutations of the at least one multi-bit roaming policy within each of a plurality of multi-bit Third Generational Partnership Project (3GPP) broadcast identifiers, wherein the at least one multi-bit roaming policy includes bit-wise roaming policy information for the identity provider; and
provisioning the plurality of multi-bit 3GPP broadcast identifiers for a mobile device associated with the identity provider, wherein the plurality of multi-bit 3GPP broadcast identifiers indicate that the mobile device is to connect to a visited radio access network associated with a local Internet Protocol (IP) access service or a home routed access service.