MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647096482 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy on August 10, 2026, for Apparatus, Method And Computer Program For Provisioning Closed Access Group Information To A User Equipment And For Controlling Access Of The User Equipment To A Network.

Inventors include Kiragi, Basavaraj; Qian, Yuan Sheng; Liebhart, Rainer; Yu, Ling; Singh, Shubhranshu; Natarajan, Rajesh Babu; and Shanmugam, Thiyagarajan.

The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving information relating to a closed access group for the user equipment, wherein the closed access group comprises a plurality of cells and is associated with a visited network, and wherein the information comprises one or more allowed closed access group identifiers, each allowed closed access group identifier associated with one or more cells of the plurality of cells comprised in the closed access group allowed for the user equipment, means for receiving from the plurality of cells comprised in the closed access group, one or more closed access group identifiers associated with the cell broadcast by the cell, means for determining, based on the one or more allowed closed group identifiers associated with the cell and the one or more closed group identifiers received from the cell, to access the visited network via the cell and means for accessing the visited network via the cell.

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