Patent ID: 8391238

Claim:
A method of operating an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) apparatus within a domain of access technologies, the method comprising: automatically configuring a neighbor relations map based on neighbor relations data from one or more reporting terminals, wherein the neighbor relations data includes data on one or more non-domain cells each of which is a neighbor of another non-domain cell, and/or one or more non-domain cells each of which is a neighbor of a domain cell, and/or one or more domain cells each of which is a neighbor of a non-domain cell, wherein information maintained in the neighbor relations map include extra-domain neighbor relations each of which is a neighbor relation between a domain cell and its extra-domain neighbor and vice versa, and/or non-domain neighbor relations each of which is a neighbor relation between two non-domain neighbors, and wherein the step of automatically configuring the neighbor relations map comprises: providing steering instructions to the reporting terminals; receiving the neighbor relations data from the reporting terminals; and updating the neighbor relations map based on the neighbor relations data from the reporting terminals.