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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2018
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Roland Gustafsson, Bengtsfors, SE;
Tomas Nylander, Värmdö, SE;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for handling connections between a wireless device () and a first wireless network node (), of a serving network () in a wireless communications network (). The wireless device () is connected to the first WNN (). The wireless communications network () further comprises a neighbor network () comprising a second WNN (). The method comprises obtaining () a roaming priority indication, RPI, associated with the wireless device (), indicating that the wireless device () has a higher priority for transfer of its network connection than another WD without priority. The method comprises obtaining () information that the neighbor network () is a network to which the RPI applies, and obtaining () measurements related to at least one the connection between the WD () and the first WNN (), and a wireless communications link between the WD () and the second WNN (), and, based on the obtained measurements, the obtained information and the RPI, initiating () a transfer of the WD's () network connection from the first WNN () to the second WNN ().