Patent ID: 9686737
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for operating a mobile device, comprising the steps of: receiving, at the mobile device via a second interface unit of the mobile device from a communication device, network information related to the communication network related to the communication device, wherein the second interface unit is operative to interface to the communication device that provides the network information relating to the communication network related to the communication device, changing in the mobile device the network selection information based on the received network information, selecting by the mobile device a communication network from the group of communication networks depending on the changed network selection information, and interfacing the mobile device with the selected communication network via a first interface unit of the mobile device, the first interface unit being different from the second interface unit and operative to selectively interface to at least one communication network of the group of communication networks depending on the network selection information.