公开(公告)号：US12010614B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17576578

申请日：2022-01-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mohammed Sadique ,  Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Chunlei Lin ,  Han Pu ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Rohit R. Matolia ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Sarma Vangala

IPC: H04W8/08 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W84/06

CPC classification number: H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W84/042 ,  H04W84/06

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for a user equipment (UE) to perform public land mobile network (PLMN) selection with a non-terrestrial network (NTN) dedicated to an international area. The UE receives a downlink message from the NTN, where the downlink message includes a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier of a first PLMN of the NTN including an information element (IE). The IE indicates that the NTN is dedicated to an international area. Responsive to receiving the downlink message, the UE determines a current location of the UE and determines whether the current location is in the international area. The UE provides an international area notification to an access and mobility management function (AMF) servicing the UE to forward to a home PLMN (HPLMN) of the UE indicating whether the current location is in the international area.