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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Inventor:
Deveshkumar N. Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);
Assignee:
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/02 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/38 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/023 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/38 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and system to help manage handover of a UE based on data buffering. In accordance with the disclosure, when a base station receives data destined for a UE, the base station may record the received data into a data buffer for temporary storage and retrieve the data at some later time to transmit the data to the UE. The base station may then determine, based at least in part on an amount of elapsed time from recording the data to retrieving the data, whether to invoke handover of the UE from being served by the base station to being served by a different, neighboring base station.