Patent ID: 9026107
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of registration of a roaming user equipment (UE) in Automatic Network Selection mode onto a preferred Visited Public Land Mobile Network (VPLMN), in which the UE comprises a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) and a mobile equipment (ME), the method comprising overwriting an entry comprising a Mobile Country Code Mobile Network Code (MCCMNC) in one or more elementary files containing location information in the UICC with identification for the preferred VPLMN; and sending to the ME a REFRESH—3 G Session Reset with a REFRESH File List listing the one or more elementary files; wherein registration of the UE onto the available preferred VPLMN is accomplished within 30 seconds taken from the time that the REFRESH—3 G Session Reset is sent to the ME.