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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2021
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Sreekar Marupaduga, Overland Park, KS (US);

Rajveen Narendran, Olathe, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/18 (2023.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 72/1273 (2023.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 92/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 72/1273 (2013.01); H04W 92/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for controlling connectivity of a user equipment device (UE), the UE being dual-connectivity capable. The UE detects that the UE has ping-ponged at a threshold high rate between standalone connectivity and dual connectivity. And responsive to at least detecting that the UE has ping-ponged at the threshold high rate between standalone connectivity and dual connectivity, the UE transmits, to an access node serving the UE, a report including an indication that the UE is not dual-connectivity capable, even though the UE is dual-connectivity capable. The access node could then use the indication in the report as a basis to forgo configuring of dual connectivity for the UE, which could thereby help discontinue the ping-ponging.


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