Patent ID: 7457621

Claim:
A method for preventing frequent network selection interaction of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), the method comprising: (a) after a wireless connection between WLAN user equipment (UE) and a WLAN Access Network has been established, the WLAN UE delivering network selection information to the WLAN Access Network during an interaction of an access authentication initiated by a network side or the WLAN UE; (b) the network side deciding whether the network selection information belongs to an operating network of mobile communications with which the WLAN Access Network connects, and if yes, sending the access authentication request from the WLAN UE to the operating network of mobile communications identified by the network selection information; and (c) if the network selection information does not belong to the operating network, deciding whether information of the operating network is allowed to be issued based on a number of times for which the information has been issued in a defined period of time, and if yes, issuing the information of the operating network to the UE, and recording the number of times for which the information has been issued, and otherwise, stopping issuing the information of the operating network.