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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2016
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Marouane Balmakhtar, Alexandria, VA (US);
Aaron Paul Hinkle, Centreville, VA (US);
G. Murat Karabulut, Herndon, VA (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A Long Term Evolution (LTE) Mobility Management Entity (MME) manages a service level for an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) media session for a User Equipment (UE). The MME exchanges first control data with the UE to establish an IMS signaling bearer and a media session bearer. The MME identifies a UE hand-over between LTE access nodes during the IMS media session and determines an access technology difference between the LTE access nodes. The MME determines when the service level for the IMS media session should be modified based on the access technology difference and exchanges service modification data with the IMS. The MME exchanges second control data with the UE to indicate a modification to the service level for the IMS media session.