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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Florent Munier, Västra Frölunda, SE;

Gerardo Agni Medina Acosta, Märsta, SE;

Nianshan Shi, Järfälla, SE;

Mark Curran, County Carlow, IE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/38 (2009.01); H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 88/14 (2009.01); H04L 1/16 (2006.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/385 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04L 1/1671 (2013.01); H04L 5/0057 (2013.01); H04W 28/08 (2013.01); H04W 88/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

In accordance with particular embodiments, a method for offloading a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises identifying a second best cell. The second best cell provides the wireless device with a second wireless signal that has a first signal characteristic that is less than a corresponding first signal characteristic of a first wireless signal provided by a serving cell. The method also includes offloading the wireless device from the serving cell to the second best cell despite the first signal characteristic of the first wireless signal of the serving cell being better than the first signal characteristic of the second wireless signal of the second best cell.


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