Patent ID: 9674853
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for communicating with one or more wireless networks using multiple radio access technologies (RATs), comprising: communicating, by a user equipment (UE), with a first access point using a first RAT over a first connection to access a first wireless network; communicating, by the UE, with a second access point using a second RAT over a second connection, wherein the second connection is configured to implement traffic aggregation with the first connection based at least in part on a configuration received from the first access point; receiving, by the UE, one or more policies for communicating using the second RAT, wherein the one or more policies specify whether to prioritize connections configured to implement traffic aggregation over other connections; determining, by the UE, whether to prioritize the second connection configured to implement the traffic aggregation over one or more other connections, wherein the determining is based at least in part on the one or more policies; and determining to refrain from reporting availability of other networks of the second RAT to a selection function of the second RAT based at least in part on determining to prioritize, based at least in part on the one or more policies, connections of the second RAT configured to use traffic aggregation over other connections of the second RAT.