Method and apparatus to enable multiple wireless connections
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsYufei Wu Blankenship, Shiwei Gao
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Abstract
In some examples, a source wireless access network node generates, for a user equipment (UE), a plurality of security configurations, wherein each security configuration of the plurality of security configurations is associated with a different respective candidate target wireless network node in a set of candidate target wireless access network nodes. The source wireless access network node sends each security configuration of the plurality of security configurations to the respective candidate target wireless network node, and sends security information of the plurality of security configurations to the UE.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- initially communicating, by a source wireless access network node, with a user equipment (UE);
- generating, by the source wireless access network node for the UE, a plurality of different security configurations, wherein each different security configuration of the plurality of different security configurations is associated with a different respective candidate target wireless access network node in a set of candidate target wireless access network nodes;
- sending, by the source wireless access network node, each different security configuration of the plurality of different security configurations to the respective candidate target access wireless network node;
- and
- sending, by the source wireless access network node, security information of the plurality of different security configurations to the UE, the security information useable by the UE for secure communications with the candidate target wireless access network nodes.
A source wireless access network node comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable on the processor to:
- initially communicate with a user equipment (UE);
- generate, for the UE, a plurality of different security configurations, wherein each different security configuration of the plurality of different security configurations is associated with a different respective candidate target wireless access network node in a set of candidate target wireless access network nodes;
- send each different security configuration of the plurality of different security configurations to the respective candidate target wireless access network node;
- and
- send security information of the plurality of different security configurations to the UE, the security information useable by the UE for secure communications with the candidate target wireless network nodes.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution cause a source wireless access network node to:
- initially communicate with a user equipment (UE);
- generate, for the UE, a plurality of different security configurations, wherein each different security configuration of the plurality of different security configurations is associated with a different respective candidate target wireless access network node in a set of candidate target wireless access network nodes;
- send each different security configuration of the plurality of different security configurations to the respective candidate target wireless access network node;
- and
- send security information of the plurality of different security configurations to the UE, the security information useable by the UE for secure communications with the candidate target wireless network nodes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.