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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2024
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Omkar Shripad Dharmadhikari, Centennial, CO (US);
Mu Xu, Shoreline, WA (US);
Bernardo Huberman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for initiating a handover of a wireless device from a first node to a second node in a communication network. The method includes steps of (a) obtaining, at a first time, a (i) speed, (ii) direction, and (iii) first location of the wireless device, (b) determining, relative to the first location, a first signal strength of the second node and a second, higher signal strength of a third node different from the second node, (c) estimating, based on the obtained (i) first location, (ii) speed, and (iii) direction, a second location for the wireless device at a second, subsequent time, (d) confirming that the second location is within a transmission range of the second node, and (e) preempting the handover to the third node by performing, prior to the second time, the handover directly from the first node to the second node.