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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2019
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Hongyan Lei, Plano, TX (US);
Zhi Cui, Sugar Hill, GA (US);
Yonghui Tong, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Yung Choi-Grogan, Sammamish, WA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
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.