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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2022
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Westlake, TX (US);
Jignesh S. Panchal, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Frank Jager, Chester, NJ (US);
Maqbool Chauhan, Keller, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system described herein may provide a technique for maintaining and transferring context information for a Dual Connectivity ('DC')-capable User Equipment ('UE') and a secondary Next Generation Node B (“gNB”) in situations where the UE is connected to a primary gNB and the secondary gNB and is handed over to an evolved Node B (“eNB”). The context information may be provided to the eNB without releasing resources or tearing down bearers at the secondary gNB, such that the UE may seamlessly continue communicating with the secondary gNB while a primary connection associated with the UE is handed over from the primary gNB to the eNB.