Patent ID: 9398493
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: assigning to a user equipment, by a network device, at least one radio access technology territory from a plurality of radio access technology territories of a home sub-network of the user equipment based at least in part on a subscribed service class corresponding to the user equipment; prioritizing, by the network device, the assigned at least one radio access technology territory based on a capability to meet at least one service class criterion, wherein the at least one service class criterion corresponds to the subscribed service class, and wherein the at least one service class criterion comprises at least one of bandwidth requirements and quality of service requirements; signaling, by the network device, an indication of the assigned at least one radio access technology territory to the user equipment, where the indication causes the user equipment to be constrained to accessing only radio access technology territories of the assigned at least one radio access technology territory; monitoring the user equipment such that the user equipment is accessing only radio access technology territories within the assigned at least one radio access technology territory; and based on at least the monitoring, granting the user equipment access to a radio access technology territory of the assigned at least one radio access technology territory of the home sub-network, where each of the at least one radio access technology territory is a sub-network of the home sub-network, where the at least one radio access territory is subscription based, and where the user equipment is constrained to accessing only territories of the at least one radio access territory to which the user equipment is subscribed.