US 11,743,783 B2
Controlling network access for user equipment
Andreas Schmidt, Braunschweig (DE); and Martin Hans, Bad Saizdetfurth (DE)
Assigned to IPCom GmbH & Co. KG, Pullach (DE)
Filed by IPCom Gmbh &Co. KG, Pullach (DE)
Filed on May 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/663,837.
Application 17/663,837 is a continuation of application No. 16/345,564, granted, now 11,363,505, previously published as PCT/EP2018/059310, filed on Apr. 11, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17166051 (EP), filed on Apr. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0279397 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/34 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 36/0069 (2018.08) [H04W 36/0033 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 76/34 (2018.02)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing a connection of a user equipment, UE, device to a core network, the UE device being capable of establishing a connection to the core network using a 3gpp mobile communication system network and of establishing a connection to the core network via a non-3GPP network using a license free access technology, the method comprising:
having established a first connection to the core network via the non-3GPP network and having established a second connection to the core network via the 3GPP mobile communication system network, in response to receiving a request from a base station of the mobile communication system to configure the second connection to the base station to use the license free access technology, informing the core network of a temporary suspension of the first connection and storing context information of the first connection for a future resumption of the first connection.