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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2021
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Sougata Saha, Overland Park, KS (US);
Nick J. Baustert, Olathe, KS (US);
Sreekar Marupaduga, Overland Park, KS (US);
Rajveen Narendran, Olathe, KS (US);
Saravana Velusamy, Olathe, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A mechanism to help control connectivity of a user equipment device (UE). When the UE is served by a master node (MN) that does not support VOP service, the MN will cause the UE to not have a secondary connection with a secondary node (SN) that would engage in control-plane signaling with the UE via the UE's master connection with the MN. For instance, in that situation, the MN could avoid setting up the secondary connection for the UE in the first place. Or if the secondary connection exists already, the MN could tear down that secondary connection. By causing the secondary connection to not exist, the mechanism may help to avoid problems with operation of the secondary connection as a result of the UE tuning away to facilitate voice service.