US 12,022,280 B2
Network selection and service continuity in non-public networks
Alexandre Stojanovski, Paris (FR); Robert Zaus, Munich (DE); Puneet Jain, Hillsboro, OR (US); Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Portland, OR (US); and Ellen Liao, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/309,286
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 13, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/061103
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/102292, PCT Pub. Date May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/767,384, filed on Nov. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038898 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 60/04 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 48/12 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 12/06 (2013.01) [H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 60/04 (2013.01); H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 48/12 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
 
1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprising:
radio frequency circuitry configured to communicate with a non-public network (NPN); and
one or more baseband processors communicatively coupled to the radio frequency circuitry and configured to perform operations comprising:
processing at least one NPN identifier (NPN-ID) broadcast by an NPN and zero or more Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) identifier (PLMN-ID) broadcast by a PLMN;
comparing the at least one NPN-IDs and the zero or more PLMN-IDs against a logical list of NPN-IDs and PLMN-IDs ranked in decreasing order of priority, wherein the logical list is a list of Equivalent Home Networks that includes one or more PLMN identifiers (PLMN-IDs) and one or more NPN-IDs, wherein the logical list of Equivalent Home Networks is a combination of an Equivalent Home PLMN list and an NPN-ID list whereby the one or more NPN-IDs are disguised as a PLMN-ID in the Equivalent Home PLMN list using a dummy mobile country code (MCC) and a pointer mobile network code (MNC) that points to a corresponding NPN-ID in the NPN-ID list; and
connecting with a highest ranked processed NPN or PLMN based on a rank of the NPN-ID or PLMN-ID in the list.