Patent ID: 9668205
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A user terminal capable of using an Evolved-UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), comprising: a storage configured to store a Radio Access Network (RAN) rule for selecting a radio access scheme with Access Point Name (APN) granularity, among the E-UTRAN and the WLAN; a receiver configured to receive an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) rule from the E-UTRAN of the user terminal, wherein the ANDSF rule does not include a specific function of selecting the radio access scheme to be used; and a controller configured to wherein in response to the ANDSF rule having no specific function for selecting the radio access scheme to be used, the controller selects the RAN rule in a case where the user terminal has both the ANDSF rule and the RAN rule while the user terminal is in the visited cellular network.