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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:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2007
Applicants:
Renxiang Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Claudio R. Lima, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Renxiang Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Claudio R. Lima, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems, methods, and software are provided to manage a handover of a mobile station from a source base station to a target base station. In an embodiment, a method comprises monitoring a condition of a first backhaul link between the source base station and an access node, processing the condition of the first backhaul link to determine if the handover should be initiated, and in response to determining that the handover should be initiated, transmitting a handover request to initiate the handover.