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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:
Jul. 23, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2016
Applicant:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:
Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0022 (2013.01); H04W 36/0027 (2013.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.02); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, at a user equipment ('UE'), the method: sending a request to a first network for Circuit Switched Fallback ('CSFB'); receiving, responsive to the request, redirection information; acquiring a second network based on the redirection information; initiating establishment of Circuit Switched (‘CS’) voice radio bearers with the second network; waiting for a predetermined event to occur; after the predetermined event has occurred, establishing a Packet Switched (‘PS’) connection with the second network. Further, a method, at a network element, the method receiving a request for Circuit Switched Fallback (‘CSFB’) from a user equipment (‘UE’); sending, to the UE, redirection information; receiving a Routing Area Update (‘RAU’) message from the UE; waiting for a predetermined event to occur; upon the predetermined event occurring, responding to the RAU message.


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