Patent ID: 9596601
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A mobile communication device for controlling communication in a communication network comprising: an interface adapted to communicate between said mobile communication device and at least one base station in each of a plurality of geographic regions, said at least one base station having an identifier that distinguishes said at least one base station from other base stations; and, a microcomputer connected to said interface and adapted to maintain a policy associated with each said region; said policy comprising data representative of a plurality of base station identifiers and, in association with each of said plurality of base station identifiers, one or more indications respectively indicative of whether a respective given communication type, of a plurality of communication types, is permitted or disallowed with the corresponding base station, said plurality of communication types comprising one or more of different service types and different format types; and said microcomputer adapted to determine whether a received base station identifier for said communication in any one of said regions is included in said data; said microcomputer adapted to permit said interface to communicate in accordance with said policy based on said received base station identifier and an associated one of said one or more indications.