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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2018
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Egil Gronstad, Encinitas, CA (US);
Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Renton, WA (US);
Brian Allan Olsen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kun Lu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ming Shan Kwok, Seattle, WA (US);
Salvador Mendoza, Issaquah, WA (US);
John Humbert, Olathe, KS (US);
Jun Liu, Issaquah, WA (US);
Alan Denis MacDonald, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher H. Joul, Bellevue, WA (US);
Neng-Tsann Ueng, Bellevue, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A first access node of a first wireless access network receives, via a first entry node of the first network, a service-request message from a terminal registered with the first network. The first access node requests first network-capacity information associated with the first wireless access network from the first entry node, and second network-capacity information associated with a second wireless access network from a second access node of the second network. The first access node selects a target access network based on the service-request message and the first and second network-capacity information. The first access node, in response to a selection of the first wireless access network, sends a service-reply message to the first entry node. The first access node, in response to a selection of the second wireless access network, triggers a handover of the terminal to the second wireless access network.