Abstract: The present invention provides a method for intelligently latching portable UEs having a Wi-Fi client to SSIDs associated with BSSIDs. The method comprises sending instructions to the portable UEs to automatically enable Wi-Fi on portable UEs when Wi-Fi is disabled on the portable UEs and when the portable UE associated with Wi-Fi client is pre-authenticated with the SSIDs associated with the BSSIDs associated with access points, thereby enabling latching of the portable UEs to the SSIDs and scanning for available SSIDs even when Wi-Fi is disabled on the portable UEs associated with the Wi-Fi client.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for managing a plurality of data networks on a user equipment (UE) (102) by simultaneously utilizing an 3GPP network (104) and a Wi-Fi channel (106) on the UE (102) for data usage by utilizing the 3GPP network by a first UE application and utilizing the Wi-Fi channel by a second UE applications and access traffic steering, switching, and splitting (ATSSS), pushing rulesets into the UE that allows control traffic to a network operator for a desired application based on security, criticality, and priority. Th steering includes packet-level switching and splitting through a multipath transmission control protocol and a flow-based data switching.