US 12,075,348 B2
Non-public wireless communication networks
Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Singapore (SG); Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US); Mohammed Sadique, Parramatta (AU); Krisztian Kiss, Hayward, CA (US); Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US); Yifan Zhu, San Jose, CA (US); and Utkarsh Kumar, Fremont, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/302,306.
Application 18/302,306 is a continuation of application No. 17/137,166, filed on Dec. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,665,632.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/956,472, filed on Jan. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0319700 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 8/06 (2009.01); H04W 8/12 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04W 8/06 (2013.01); H04W 8/12 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
transmitting, via a device to a first standalone non-public network (SNPN), a registration request for the device to register with the first SNPN;
receiving, at the device, a registration accept message from the first SNPN in response to the registration request, wherein the registration accept message comprises a list of equivalent SNPNs corresponding to the first SNPN, with the equivalent SNPNs accessible to the device as equivalents of the first SNPN; and
accessing, via the device at a time following reception of the registration accept message, a second SNPN from the list of equivalent SNPNs.