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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:
Jan. 26, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2019
Applicant:

Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventor:

Young Zhao, Overland Park, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 36/22 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04L 5/0042 (2013.01); H04L 5/0046 (2013.01); H04L 5/0098 (2013.01); H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04W 72/0486 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless communication network serves User Equipment (UE) over a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) access node and a Long Term Evolution (LTE) access node. The LTE access node determines a utilization metric for the LTE access node and selects 5GNR/LTE allocations based on the utilization metric for the LTE access node. The LTE access node receives user data for the UE and transfers a portion of the user data to the 5GNR access node per the 5GNR/LTE allocations. The LTE access node transfers the remainder of the user data to the UE over an LTE link per the 5GNR/LTE allocations. The 5GNR access node receives the portion of the user data and transfers the portion of the user data to the UE over a 5GNR link per the 5GNR/LTE allocations.


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