US 12,089,141 B2
Method for quickly searching for high-RAT network, and terminal device
Lei Fu, Shenzhen (CN); Hsingyu Lung, Shanghai (CN); Tianyi Hou, Shenzhen (CN); and Hao Song, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Appl. No. 17/290,680
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
PCT Filed Oct. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/112712
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 30, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/088320, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201811294434.1 (CN), filed on Nov. 1, 2018; and application No. 201811338441.7 (CN), filed on Nov. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0015017 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented by a terminal device, wherein the method comprises:
connecting to a first hotspot;
performing a data service through the first hotspot;
storing a high-priority network list that comprises priorities;
storing a first maximum number of searches;
starting searching for, in a descending order of the priorities, a high-priority network when the terminal device disconnects from the first hotspot; and
pausing or suspending searching for the high-priority network when the searching reaches the first maximum number of searches.