Patent ID: 7835317

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, at a user equipment from a wireless local area network access point of a wireless local area network, a service set identifier including an identification of at least one other network comprising a public land mobile network; storing in the user equipment resident in the wireless local area network the identification of the at least one other network; transmitting, from the user equipment to the wireless local area network access point of the wireless local area network, a request to connect to the at least one other network, the request including the identification of the at least one other network comprising the public land mobile network, wherein the identification comprising: the service set identifier including the identification of the at least one other network comprising the public land mobile network a country code where the public land mobile network is located, and a field identifying the public land mobile network to which the request for connection is to be routed; and connecting, in response to the transmitted request, the user equipment to the identified other network through the wireless local area network access point of the wireless local area network.