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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:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

May. 20, 2014
Applicant:

Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lokesh Chimbili, Bangalore, IN;

Pradeep Seshadri, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/08 (2013.01); H04W 76/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication device configured to perform a load balancing procedure in response to a mobility management entity being overloaded and/or shut down. The base station can be configured to generate a radio resource control (RRC) Connection Reject message including a load balancing clause. The communication device can be configured to initiate a load balancing procedure based on the RRC Connection Reject message. The communication device can also be considered to initiate a load balancing procedure after a predetermined wait time has expired and/or after a predetermined number of received RRC Connection Reject messages.


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