Network controlled extended access barring for user devices
AssigneeSony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorRickard Ljung
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Abstract
A method includes determining whether a network access class associated with a data use device is a mixed access class. The mixed access class includes a non-extended access barring (EAB) network access protocol for at least one service and an EAB network access protocol for at least one other service. The method also includes determining whether EAB access has been granted for the data use device to access a network. The method includes barring EAB network access for the data use device if EAB access has not been granted for the data use device to access the network. The method further includes allowing network access for all services for the data use device if EAB access has been granted for the data use device to access the network.
Claims43
A method of providing network access to a data use device that is configured for extended access barring (EAB) control for at least some network services and is a member of at least one network access class, the method comprising:
- applying, by a network access control device, an EAB control;
- receiving, by the network access control device, at least one network access request from the data use device while the network access control device applies the EAB control;
- determining, by the network access control device, that network access to accommodate the at least one network access request is granted and allowing, by the network access control device, the data use device to engage in data communications associated with the at least one network access request.
A method of providing network access to a data use device that is configured for extended access barring (EAB) control for at least some network services and is a member of at least one network access class, the method comprising:
- applying, by a network access control device, an EAB control to the data use device;
- receiving, by the network access control device, at least one network access request from the data use device for service subject to the EAB control and for which treatment under non-EAB access is indicated in the least one network access request;
- limiting the data use device's access to the network, by the network access control device, to only emergency calls during the EAB control if the network access control device determines that the at least one network access request is not allowed.
A network access control device for providing network access to a data use device, comprising:
- a communication interface over which communication with the data use device is made;
- a memory that stores executable logic containing network access control functionality;
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- a processor that executes the logic, by execution of the logic the network access control device:
- determines that at least one network access request from the data use device is in accordance with an extended access barring (EAB) network access procedure and another network access request from the data access device that is in accordance with a non-EAB network access procedure is allowed;
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- coordinates a separate packet data protocol (PDP) connection with a packet data network (PDN) for each network access procedure.
A data use device configured for extended access barring (EAB) control, comprising:
- a communication interface over which communication with a network access control device is made;
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- control circuitry configured to:
- during imposition of extended access barring (EAB) control, transmit to the network access control device at least one network access request;
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- upon grant of at least one network access request by the network access control device, engage in data communications associated with the at least one network access request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.