Patent ID: 8467300
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of performing access network selection and/or network service adaptation for a mobile terminal based on current conditions of the mobile terminal, the method performed in a telecommunications network-based Access Awareness Entity (AAE) and comprising: detecting that an access network to which the mobile terminal is connected, or to which the mobile terminal has been connected, does not support collection and transfer of information used by the AAE in selecting an access network and/or adapting a network service to the AAE for the mobile terminal; triggering the mobile terminal to collect and send the information to the AAE responsive to the detection; and performing an access network selection and/or a network service adaptation for the mobile terminal based on the information and in accordance with the capabilities of the access network and of the mobile terminal, wherein detecting that an access network does not support the collection and transfer of the information to the AAE comprises: