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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:
Feb. 04, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Hongyan Lei, Plano, TX (US);

Zhi Cui, Sugar Hill, GA (US);

Yonghui Tong, Alpharetta, GA (US);

Yung Choi-Grogan, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/32 (2009.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/32 (2013.01); H04L 41/082 (2013.01); H04W 36/0069 (2018.08); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 36/00835 (2018.08); H04W 76/16 (2018.02); H04W 88/06 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining configuration update messages received from neighbor cells of a serving cell of a wireless network, wherein the configuration update messages include dual connectivity capability information of the neighbor cells. The neighbor cells are ranked according to the dual connectivity capability information resulting in a dual connectivity ranking. A target cell of the neighbor cells is selected according to the dual connectivity ranking and a dual connectivity capability of a mobile device, and a dual connectivity service is established according to the dual connectivity ranking. The dual connectivity service includes exchanging user plane messages between the mobile device, a master cell and a secondary cell of the wireless network. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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