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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2021
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Kun Lu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Boris Antsev, Bothell, WA (US);
Terri L. Brooks, Prosper, TX (US);
Egil Gronstad, Encinitas, CA (US);
John Humbert, Roeland Park, KS (US);
Alan Denis MacDonald, Bellevue, WA (US);
Salvador Mendoza, Issaquah, WA (US);
Scott Francis Migaldi, Cary, IL (US);
Gary Jones, Montgomery, TX (US);
Christopher H. Joul, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jun Liu, Issaquah, WA (US);
Ming Shan Kwok, Seattle, WA (US);
Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Renton, WA (US);
Neng-Tsann Ueng, Bellevue, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
An access network can allocate a bearer for a network service associated with a quality-of-service (QoS) value (QV) and a retention-priority value (RPV), and determine a bearer ID for the service based on the QV, the RPV, and a supplemental priority value (SPV) different from the QV and from the RPV. Upon handover of a terminal, session(s) carried by a bearer allocated by the terminal can be terminated. That bearer can be selected using IDs of the bearers and a comparison function that, given two bearer IDs, determines which respective bearer should be terminated before the other. Upon handover of a terminal to an access network supporting fewer bearers per terminal than the terminal has allocated, a network node can select a bearer based on respective QVs and RPVs of a set of allocated bearers. The network node can deallocate the selected bearer.