Patent ID: 8837306

Claim:
A telecommunications system for facilitating mobile nodes to communicate via a plurality of mobile access networks, each having a gateway and a plurality of access points for communicating with the gateway and the mobile nodes, the telecommunications system comprising: a network selection manager configured to: receive access network evaluation messages from one or more resource managers, which are associated with the plurality of access networks via which the mobile node may communicate, analyze the access network evaluation messages in order to determine a current loading on each of the access networks, apply the current loading of each access network in accordance with one or more operator defined conditions, including a predetermined operator policy rule, to generate an updated list of preferred mobile access networks, and communicate to a mobile node the updated list of preferred mobile access networks to which the mobile node may be attached during an inactive state, wherein the network selection manager is configured to communicate dynamically the updated list of preferred mobile access networks to the mobile node in response to a change in the list of preferred mobile access networks since a last updated preferred list was previously communicated to the mobile node.