Patent ID: 8406170

Claim:
An apparatus in a home Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) of a user of a User Equipment (UE) for selecting a gateway for connecting the UE to the home PLMN when the UE is located in an access network connected to a visited PLMN, wherein the home PLMN is different from the visited PLMN and the access network, and wherein the apparatus is configured to: receive a first Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) from the UE via the access network, wherein the first FQDN contains an identity of the user of the UE; determine, based on the received identity of the user and knowledge of the visited PLMN, whether the UE should establish a connection only to a gateway in the home PLMN, only to a gateway in the visited PLMN, or to both a gateway in the home PLMN and a gateway in the visited PLMN; and transmit to the UE, an address belonging to a gateway in the visited PLMN if it is determined that the UE should establish a connection only to a gateway in the visited PLMN, or an address belonging to a gateway in the home PLMN if it is determined that the UE should establish a connection only to a gateway in the home PLMN, or addresses belonging to both a gateway in the home PLAN and a gateway in the visited PLMN if it is determined that the UE should establish a connection to both.