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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:
Nov. 06, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2015
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Ruth Brown, London, GB;

Maria Cuevas, London, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/12 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0055 (2013.01); H04W 48/12 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

An LTE cellular network having management mobility servers (MMEs), base stations (enodeBs) and mobile user equipment (UE). The network supporting two groups of mobile device subscribers; subscribers of a macrocell network and subscribers of a small cell network. The base stations being configured to broadcast network information and device configuration information to the mobile devices through System Information Block messages. The base stations being configured to selectively send override parameters to subscribers of the mobile devices to alter the idle mode reselection processing to prefer connections to the small cell network.


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