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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2007
Applicants:

Lauri Kuru, Espoo, FI;

Petri Jolma, Nurmijarvi, FI;

Zexian LI, Espoo, FI;

Jarmo Makinen, Espoo, FI;

Roman Pichna, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Lauri Kuru, Espoo, FI;

Petri Jolma, Nurmijarvi, FI;

Zexian Li, Espoo, FI;

Jarmo Makinen, Espoo, FI;

Roman Pichna, Espoo, FI;

Assignee:

Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/24 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/245 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a method and respective entities for avoiding handovers in a ping-pong manner in a communication network. The method comprises comparing, when a handover of a mobile station to a base station is intended, decision criteria of the intended handover with decision criteria of previous handovers of the mobile station to that base station, and deciding on allowing or preventing the intended handover based on the result of the comparison.


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