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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:
Jan. 22, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 03, 2015
Applicant:

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Mark Ernest Newbury, Hillsborough, NJ (US);

Keith Butterworth, Bedminster, NJ (US);

Zinan Lin, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Alpaslan Gence Savas, Summit, NJ (US);

Matthijs A. Visser, Mendham, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04W 24/00 (2013.01); H04W 28/085 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 36/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for load rebalancing are provided. A node B selects a subset of carriers from a plurality of carriers of the node B according to effective usages for the plurality of carriers, determines a heavily loaded carrier and a lightly loaded carrier from the subset of carriers according to effective usages of the subset of carriers, select a mobile device assigned to the heavily loaded carrier as a candidate for handoff, and performs a handoff of the selected mobile device from the heavily loaded carrier to the lightly loaded carrier.


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