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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:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Deutsche Telekom Ag, Bonn, DE;

Inventors:

Jakob Belschner, Frankfurt, DE;

Quan Kuang, Berlin, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 36/20 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/20 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/1226 (2013.01); H04W 36/0072 (2013.01);
Abstract

A handover method includes the steps: (1a) detecting, at a serving node, signal quality of a signal transmitted from the serving node to a user equipment (UE) being worse than a predefined threshold; (1b) identifying, at the serving node, node(s) transmitting to the UE the strongest signals interfering with signals being transmitted to the UE; (1c) sending, by the serving node, a request for starting an inter-cell interference coordination scheme; (1d) rescheduling, by the node(s) identified in step (1b), users currently being served by the node(s); (1e) informing, by the node(s) identified in step (1b), the serving node of the UE which resources have, been reserved in step (1d); (1f) scheduling, by the serving node, the UE to the resources reserved in step (1d); (1g) starting, by the serving node, handover of the UE from the serving node to a target node; and (1h) completing the handover of the UE.


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