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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2016
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Muhammad Khaledul Islam, Ottawa, CA;
Jeffrey William Wirtanen, Ottawa, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
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.