公开(公告)号：US20240298234A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-05

申请号：US18471575

申请日：2023-09-21

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Vimal Srivastava ,  Ravi Kiran Guntupalli ,  Piyush Srivastava ,  Amit Shivhare

IPC: H04W36/22 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W36/32

CPC classification number: H04W36/22 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W36/322

Abstract: Provided herein are techniques to facilitate location-specific wireless local area network (WLAN) offload restrictions for user equipment based on wireless wide area network (WWAN) radio band(s). In at least one example, a method performed by an authentication server of a WLAN may include, for a user equipment (UE) that is connected to an NR radio band of a WWAN and is seeking to connect to the WLAN, querying a subscription element of the WWAN to obtain a location indicator and an NR radio band indicator for the UE; determining, based on the location indicator and the NR radio band indicator, whether the UE is allowed or required to offload to the WLAN; and based on determining that the UE is allowed to offload from the WWAN to the WLAN, facilitating a WLAN association response message to be sent to the UE for offloading the UE to the WLAN.