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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2004
Applicants:
Kenji Nishimura, Yokosuka, JP;
Jun Kakishima, Yokohama, JP;
Shoichi Hirata, Fuchu, JP;
Masami Yabusaki, Kashiwa, JP;
Inventors:
Kenji Nishimura, Yokosuka, JP;
Jun Kakishima, Yokohama, JP;
Shoichi Hirata, Fuchu, JP;
Masami Yabusaki, Kashiwa, JP;
Assignee:
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a mobile communication network comprised of a plurality of switching devices and a plurality of base stations connected to the switching devices, while a mobile terminal to wirelessly communicate with the base stations is in a communication by a soft handover, a terminal endpoint of a protocol for control of the soft handover is relocated in changing a switching device to another as a branch/combining point of data on a communication route of the communication.