Patent ID: 9369916
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: obtaining from an Access Network Discovery and Selection (ANDSF) server an ANDSF policy specifying a rule for access selection, the rule specifying one or more attributes to be compared to a corresponding one or more expressions, at least one of the corresponding one or more expressions being a sum of a corresponding threshold parameter and a corresponding offset parameter; obtaining one or more threshold parameter values, wherein obtaining the one or more threshold parameter values comprises receiving at a user equipment (UE) the one or more threshold parameter values from the ANDSF server; obtaining at least one offset parameter value more frequently than obtaining the one or more threshold parameter values, wherein obtaining the at least one offset parameter value comprises receiving at the user equipment (UE) the at least one offset parameter value from a network loading server; and determining the access selection based on the at least one rule, the one or more threshold parameter values, and the at least one offset parameter value.