Patent ID: 9247489
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for network discovery and selection (NDS), the method comprising: receiving, at an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) proxy from a user equipment (UE), a query for network discovery information, the query including an indication for a service provider associated with a domain of users; forwarding the query, including the indication for the service provider, from the ANQP proxy to an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF); receiving, at the ANQP proxy from the ANDSF, information associated with the service provider and retrieved by the ANDSF in response to the query from the ANQP proxy; forwarding, by the ANQP proxy to the UE, the information associated with the service provider indicated by the UE; communicating, by the ANQP proxy, ANQP or Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) frames with an ANQP server of the ANDSF; and exchanging, by the ANQP proxy, query and policy information on a realm basis with an ANQP transport block of the ANDSF via an Internet Protocol (IP) network for ANQP transport.