ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,044, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Limited service and hosting network" 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: "A method of a UE determining whether a current camped CAG cell is suitable and thereby entering limited service state for PNI-NPN as a hosting network is provided. When the PNI-NPN is a hosting network providing localized services, one or more allowed CAG IDs are associated with validity information per UE stored configuration, e.g., time and/or location validity criteria. Once a CAG cell is selected and camped...