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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2018
Applicant:
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Inventors:
Julio Costa, Tampa, FL (US);
Muralidhar Malreddy, Overland Park, KS (US);
Assignee:
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/18 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0072 (2013.01); H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04W 36/18 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02);
Abstract
A mechanism for S1 handover triggered by a target eNodeB. When a UE is being served by a source eNodeB and detects threshold strong coverage of a target cell, the UE sends an RRC connection request to the target eNodeB and informs the target eNodeB that the UE is being served by the source eNodeB. In response, the target eNodeB engages in a process to invoke handover of the UE to the target eNodeB, without the target eNodeB having received from the MME or from the source eNodeB a handover request for the handover of the UE.