Patent ID: 9655030
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a user equipment, an access point to attempt to establish a connection to a communications network comprising at least one of a home public land mobile network and a visited public land mobile network; receiving, in response to the accessing resulting in a failure in the attempt to establish the connection and before an extensible authentication protocol failure message is received, an extensible authentication protocol notification message at the user equipment, the extensible authentication protocol notification message indicating at least one reason for the failure in the attempt to establish the connection to the communication network interworking with the access point, the at least one reason for the failure comprising information indicating whether the failure was due to a temporary unavailability of the access point and/or the communications network, the extensible authentication protocol notification message comprising a multi-bit notification code including a first portion of the multi-bit notification code specifying whether the at least one failure occurred; selecting, in order to access an authentication server at the communication network, the access point, when the at least one reason for failure indicates temporary unavailability, or another access point, when the at least one reason for failure does not indicate temporary unavailability.