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US 11,388,653 B2Granted
Method and apparatus providing access control
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsTero Henttonen, Malgorzata Tomala, Mikko Jyrki Olavi Kanerva
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Abstract
A method comprises receiving information at a user device about one or more types of access and associated barring configuration information. The one or more types of access may comprise programmable access classes. The method further using by the user device one or more of said types of access and respective barring configuration information when determining whether to attempt access to a network.
Claims8
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a user device from a base station, information indicating that dynamic access barring will be used to control network access for the user device;
- receiving, by the user device from the base station, an access group indicator that is assigned to the user device;
- determining, by the user device based on the information indicating that dynamic access barring will be used, to use the received access group indicator that is assigned to the user device for network access;
- receiving, by the user device from the base station, an access class barring configuration for one or more access group indicators;
- comparing, by the user device, the access group indicator assigned to the user device to an access group indicator associated with the one or more received access class barring configurations;
- determining, by the user device based on the comparing, a first access class barring configuration for the access group indicator assigned to the user device;
- and
- using, by the user device, the first access class barring configuration when determining whether to attempt access to the base station;
- wherein if the user device does not receive an access class barring configuration for the access group indicator that is assigned to the user device, this indicates that the user device is barred from network access.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- receive, by a user device from a base station, information indicating that dynamic access barring will be used to control network access for the user device;
- receive, by the user device from the base station, an access group indicator that is assigned to the user device;
- determine, by the user device based on the information indicating that dynamic access barring will be used, to use the received access group indicator that is assigned to the user device for network access;
- receive, by the user device from the base station, an access class barring configuration for one or more access group indicators;
- compare, by the user device, the access group indicator assigned to the user device to an access group indicator associated with the one or more received access class barring configurations;
- determine, by the user device based on the comparing, a first access class barring configuration for the access group indicator assigned to the user device;
- and
- use, by the user device, the first access class barring configuration when determining whether to attempt access to the base station;
- wherein if the user device does not receive an access class barring configuration for the access group indicator that is assigned to the user device, this indicates that the user device is barred from network access.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.