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Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2017
Applicant:

Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Noriyuki Shimizu, Kanagawa, JP;

Hiroaki Asano, Kanagawa, JP;

Hideki Shingu, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 40/36 (2009.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/36 (2013.01); H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

To reduce power consumption and enable a quick change from one communication path to another when detecting a decrease in quality of communication for communicating user data, a first base station determines a second base station and a third base station, and then the first base station transmits a connection request message to a terminal, the second base station and the third base station concurrently with transmitting a communication request message to the second base station, and, while the second base station is in communication with the terminal, upon detecting a decrease in quality of communication with the terminal based on a reception status of an uplink signal from the terminal, the second base station transmits a path switching request message to the first base station, which in turn transfers the received path switching request message transmitted from the second base station to the third base station.


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