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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2021
Applicant:
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0069 (2018.08); H04W 36/00837 (2018.08);
Abstract
A method is provided. The method includes determining, while a user equipment (UE) is connected to a long term evolution (LTE) cell, that the UE supports connection with a first fifth generation (5G) frequency range (FR1) base station (gNB) and a second 5G frequency range (FR2) base station (SgNB), when the UE is camped to an FR1 cell, determining whether at least one connection condition is satisfied, and controlling to release the UE from the FR1 cell and initiating the UE to an FR2 cell when the at least one connection condition is determined to be satisfied.