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AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsMats Naslund, Jari Arkko, Rolf Blom, Vesa Lehtovirta, Karl Norrman, Stefan Rommer, Bengt Sahlin
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When setting up communication from a user equipment UE (1), such as for providing IP access for the UE in order to allow it to use some service, information or an indication or at least one network properly relating to a first network, e.g. the current access network (3, 3′), is sent to the UE from a node (13) in a sue and network such as the home network (5) of the subscriber ask UE. The information or indication can be sent in a first stage of an authentication procedure being part of the setting up of a connection from the UE. In particular, the network property can indicate whether the access network (3, 3′) is trusted or not.
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A method of establishing connectivity from a user equipment through an access network, including the steps of:
A user equipment for communication through an access network, said user equipment comprising:
A server in a home network of a user equipment, the server arranged to send information to the user equipment in an authentication procedure being part of establishing connectivity from the user equipment through an access network, wherein the server is arranged to introduce, in a message included in said information sent to the user equipment, special information indicating a special condition relating to at least one network property of the access network or modifying said message to indicate the special condition.
A computer program product comprised in or for use by a user equipment related to a server, the computer product being an electronic memory carrying computer readable instructions which when run by the user equipment causes the user equipment to retrieve special information from or for interpreting a special condition indicated in one of the messages sent to the user equipment from the server to which the user equipment is related, in an authentication procedure being part of setting up a connection from the user equipment through an access network, the special condition relating to at least one network property of the access network, and to use, in a following stage of the procedure of setting up the connection, the retrieved information or the result of the interpreting of the special condition for selecting an appropriate way of establishing the connectivity through the access network.
A computer program product, comprised in or for use by a server related to user equipments, the computer program product being an electronic memory carrying computer readable instructions which when run by a server causes the server to introduce, in a message included in information sent to one of user equipments related to the server, special information indicating a special condition relating to at least one network property of an access network, through which is a connection from said user equipment is to be set up, or to modify said message to indicate the special condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.