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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:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2016
Applicants:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

At&t Mobility Ii Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Zhi Cui, Sugar Hill, GA (US);

Cheng P. Liu, Johns Creek, GA (US);

Hongyan Lei, Plano, TX (US);

Assignees:

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);

AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 76/25 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 8/20 (2009.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04L 5/0035 (2013.01); H04L 47/827 (2013.01); H04W 8/20 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 76/25 (2018.02); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to service aware carrier aggregation. According to one aspect disclosed herein, an eNodeB ('eNB') can learn, via a primary serving cell ('PSC'), that a user equipment (“UE”) has a capability to utilize a carrier aggregation feature. The eNB can receive policy information and service information, and can learn, via the PSC, a service requested by the UE. The eNB can determine, based at least in part upon the policy information, the service information, and the service, whether to implement the carrier aggregation feature to provide the service to the UE. When the eNB determines that the carrier aggregation feature is to be implemented, the eNB can inform the UE to reconfigure a radio resource control (“RRC”) configuration to include the PSC and a secondary serving cell (“SSC”). The eNB can allocate physical media resources for the service from the PSC and the SSC.


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