Patent ID: 9338728
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. UE (User Equipment) in a mobile communication system including a PGW (Packet Data Network Gateway), the UE that establishes, with the PGW, a communication path using a first access system and a communication path using a second access system, and an ANDSF (Access Network Discovery and Selection Function) that transmits a mobile operator policy to the UE, the UE comprising: receiving the mobile operator policy including flow identification information, access system identification information, and a degree of compulsion from the ANDSF; and transmitting, in a case where the degree of compulsion included in the mobile operator policy is a degree of compulsion that compels the UE to perform switching, a request to switch a communication path used for flow communication corresponding to the flow identification information to an access system corresponding to the access system identification information included in the mobile operator policy.