US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Oct. 28 for "Multiple previously registered networks for network selection" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,551, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multiple previously registered networks for network selection" was invented by Chia-Lin Lai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yuan-Chieh Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one novel aspect, a method for storing multiple previously registered networks for network selection is proposed. A UE is first registered to a first SNPN or PNI-NPN(CAG)/PLMN as a non-hosting network. The UE is then registered to a second SNPN or PNI-NPN(CAG)/PLMN as a hosting network with matching validity information. When the second SNPN or PNI-NPN(CAG)/PLMN beco...