Patent ID: 11930544
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A user device, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
receiving, from a network device, a group of indications, wherein each indication corresponds to a subscriber authenticator selected by the network device from a group of subscriber authenticators, the group comprising subscriber authenticators available for use to connect the user device to network devices respectively corresponding to different provider networks maintained by a group of network providers, wherein each indication was generated by the network device based on a current network cost retrieved by the network device from respective network providers,
analyzing a characteristic of a provider network of the different provider networks corresponding to the subscriber authenticator, wherein the indication comprises information corresponding to the characteristic of the provider network, and
based on a result of analyzing the characteristic of the provider network, selecting the provider network.