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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2006
Applicants:
Edgar Wolfram Kühn, Stuttgart, DE;
Oliver Blume, Stuttgart, DE;
Inventors:
Edgar Wolfram Kühn, Stuttgart, DE;
Oliver Blume, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of triggering a decision of a wireless communication system on a handover and/or of triggering a handover by means of at least one trigger signal. Using a generic algorithm for triggering handover trigger signals. The algorithm uses generic parameters representing at least an aspect of the quality of service of a radio link. The method facilitates handovers in multi-RAT networks and decreases the signalling as part of the handover decision making is transferred to the terminal device.