Patent ID: 9615311
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) for use in communicating 3 rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network information, the method comprising: obtaining by the WLAN, cellular network information associated with and identifying at least one cellular network available for communication with a mobile communication device, the cellular network information indicating 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network information, the cellular network information including first network information which identifies a first cellular network, and the first network information including a Mobile Network Code (MNC) and a Mobile Country Code (MCC) which identifies the at least one cellular network; transmitting, from the WLAN to a mobile station, a generic container, wherein the generic container is defined by an IEEE 802.11 standard, content in the generic container is configured according to a 3GPP cellular standard, and the generic container comprises a container field and a version field adjacent to a length field, the container field including at least one of: neighboring cellular channels or at least one MNC and MCC pair that indicates at least one 3GPP network, the at least one MNC/MCC pair for use by the mobile station to select a 3GPP network to access, the length field identifying a data length of the container field, the version field identifying a version of the generic container, and wherein the content in the generic container is received from a network, and transmitting the generic container comprises transmitting the generic container in at least one of an extensible authentication protocol (EAP), an advertisement protocol, and a wireless application protocol (WAP).