Patent ID: 9723466
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a user equipment, access class barring information provided by a network via an access stratum, wherein the access class barring information is indicative of whether an ongoing active connection is allowed and/or barred access to the network; providing, by the access stratum and to an application client at the user equipment, the received access class barring information of the ongoing active connection; allowing, by the application client, an ongoing active connection to proceed at the user equipment, the ongoing active connection allowed to proceed in response to the access class barring information not indicating that an access class of the ongoing active connection is not allowed and/or barred access to the network; determining, by the application client, whether to allow the ongoing active connection by at least accessing the access class of the user equipment to determine whether access to the network is barred, the determination of whether to allow the ongoing active connection performed in response to the access class barring information indicating that the access class of the ongoing active connection is allowed and/or not barred access to the network; and barring, by the application client, the ongoing active connection, the ongoing active connection barred in response to the access class barring information not being available and/or the access class barring information indicating that the access class of the ongoing active connection is allowed and/or not barred access to the network.