US Patent 10334496 Traffic steering between wireless access networks

A terminal receives criteria from a first wireless access network. The criteria comprise reporting criteria and steering criteria. The terminal operates in a first mode for a first time period until expiry of a timer and operates in a second mode after expiry of the timer. Operation in the second mode is different from operation in the first mode. One of the first mode and the second mode comprises a traffic steering mode in which the terminal directly steers at least some traffic when the steering criteria are met and the other one of the first mode and the second mode comprises a measurement reporting mode in which the terminal sends a measurement report when the reporting criteria are met and waits for a traffic steering instruction to steer at least some traffic the first wireless access network or to a second wireless access network.