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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:
Jun. 28, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 11, 2014
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Suryanarayanan Ramamurthy, Olathe, KS (US);

Jay D. Cole, Overland Park, KS (US);

Saravana Velusamy, Olathe, KS (US);

Rajil Malhotra, Olathe, KS (US);

Deveshkumar Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0022 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an arrangement in which a radio access network detects a trigger such as the RAN being threshold loaded, and the RAN responsively causes each of one or more served UEs to transition from operating in a mode in which the UE would engage in call initiation signaling via the RAN to set up the call extending through the RAN, so the UE would then engage in the call served by the RAN to operating in a mode in which the UE would engage in call initiation signaling via the RAN to instead set up the call extending through another RAN and would transition to be served by the other RAN, so the UE would engage in the call served by the other RAN. As disclosed, one RAN may be an LTE RAN, and the other RAN may be a fallback RAN such as a CDMA or GSM RAN.


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