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US 11,082,890 B2Granted
Method, system and apparatus of wireless local area network (WLAN) communication in conjunction with cellular communication
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorAlexander Sirotkin
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Abstract
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of Wireless-Local-Area-Network (WLAN) communication in conjunction with cellular communication. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication unit to receive WLAN load information indicating a load of at least one WLAN controlled by at least one access point (AP), and, based on the WLAN load information, to select between connecting to the AP and connecting to a cellular node.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- one or more processors configured to cause a user equipment (UE) to:
- process wireless local area network (WLAN) information received from an evolved NodeB (eNB) in an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN), the WLAN information comprising at least one of information of a WLAN channel utilization and information of a WLAN backhaul;
- and
- determine, based at least in part on a threshold related to the WLAN backhaul, whether to offload communication from the E-UTRAN to the WLAN by connecting to an access point (AP) of the WLAN.
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An apparatus comprising:
- means for processing at a user equipment (UE) wireless local area network (WLAN) information received from an evolved NodeB (eNB) in an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN), the WLAN information comprising at least one of information of a WLAN channel utilization or information of a WLAN backhaul;
- and
- means for determining, based at least in part on a threshold related to the WLAN backhaul, whether to offload communication from the E-UTRAN to the WLAN by connecting to an access point (AP) of the WLAN.
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor configured to cause an evolved NodeB (eNB) in an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) to:
- include wireless local area network (WLAN) information as part of a radio resource control (RRC) signaling message, the WLAN information comprises at least one of information of a WLAN channel utilization or information of a WLAN backhaul, wherein at least a threshold related to the information of the WLAN backhaul is configured to assist the UE in determination whether to offload communication from the E-UTRAN to a WLAN;
- and
- transmit the RRC signaling message to a user equipment (UE).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.