English to French Tech/Engineering Patents (in a patent) METHOD FOR FACILITATING ACCESS TO A HOME, OR OTHER PUBLIC NETWORK

determine whether to use a non-802.1x authentication mechanism based on an indicator stored at the wireless device, the non-802.1x authentication mechanism comprising a tunnel procedure;

In the second mechanism, the wireless device tunnels directly to a HPLMN network node e.g. a PDG (Packet Data Gateway) etc.

For each such non-802.1x- capable network, selectably, attempt is made to set up a tunnel to the network node e.g. packet data gateway etc of the HPLMN associated with the wireless device. If the tunneling is successful, and the wireless device is able to perform connection with the home network by way of the S SID-identified network, the wireless device makes note of the success of the connection attempt, and the tunnel is tom down.

If a connection is successfully formed, the wireless device makes note of the successful connection and tears down the tunnel.

If a successful connection is formed, the wireless device then tears down the tunnel and iteratively performs the same procedure for each, if any, additional non-802.1x WLAN.