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Sony patents phone feature to decline new network services before connecting

Sony describes a method where a phone checks if a wireless network offers a new service before fully connecting. If the user declines the service's terms and conditions, the phone tells the network to stop offering it, preventing the device from being locked out of that cell.

Why it mattersThis could give users more control over optional data services, ensuring they are not forced into agreements they do not want when connecting to a new cell.

In the filing’s own words

A method of operating a communications device, the method comprising receiving broadcast information transmitted in a cell of the wireless communications network, based on the broadcast information, determining that a service is provided via the wireless communications network, selecting the cell of the wireless communications network as a serving cell, receiving an indication in the cell that registration for the service is permitted, receiving information associated with the service and determining that the service is not required, transmitting a rejection indication indicating that the service is not required and receiving a network restriction indication transmitted in response to the rejection indication, the network restriction indication indicating that the communications device is not permitted to select the cell as a serving cell.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: transmitting a registration request to an infrastructure equipment, the registration request requesting that the communications device be registered for a dynamic service provided via the wireless communications network, the dynamic service including a service which is not covered by a pre-existing agreement between (i) a subscriber and (ii) the wireless communications network or a service provider, receiving via a wireless access interface provided by the infrastructure equipment in a cell of the wireless communications network a registration accept indication sent in response to the registration request, the registration accept indication indicating that the communications device is permitted to be registered for the dynamic service, receiving via the wireless access interface information associated with the dynamic service, after receiving the registration accept indication and the information associated with the dynamic service, determining that the dynamic service is not required based on the information associated with the dynamic service, wherein determining that the dynamic service is not required based on the information includes: displaying one or more of terms and conditions applicable to the use of the dynamic service to a user of the communications device, and receiving an input from the user indicating that the dynamic service is not required based on the displayed one or more of the terms and conditions; and in response to determining that the dynamic service is not required, transmitting, using a control plane before a user plane connection to a core network is established, a service rejection indication to an entity of the core network indicating that the dynamic service is not required.

Facts

Company
Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
Official title
Communications device, infrastructure equipment, core network equipment and methods
Patent number
US12745170B2
Application number
17918134
Filed
Mar 22, 2021
Granted
Sep 22, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
8

Classified under

H04W 48/20 Electricity & electronicsH04W 48/02 Electricity & electronicsH04W 60/00 Electricity & electronics

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