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Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2019
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Richard Mackenzie, London, GB;

Keith Briggs, London, GB;

Salvador Diaz Sendra, London, GB;

Michael Fitch, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 36/00835 (2018.08); H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for operating a cellular telecommunications network. If determining that a first cell of a base station is about to reboot, performing a handover of one or more User Equipments from that cell to a second cell. After the reboot, the user equipment may be handed back to the rebooted cell. If both cells are to reboot, a determination is made to identify which cell's reboot operation is to be prioritized, a handover of the user equipment attached to the prioritized cell to the other cell is made, the prioritized cell is rebooted, all the user equipments are handed over from the non-prioritized cell to the (now rebooted) prioritized cell, the non-prioritized cell is rebooted and the user equipment that was initially attached to the non-prioritized cell is handed over from the prioritized cell back to the now rebooted non-prioritized cell.


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