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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2012
Applicants:

Andrew John Farnsworth, Kidderminster, GB;

Vaibhav Singh, Birmingham, GB;

Muhammad Khaledul Islam, Ottawa, CA;

Ozgur Ekici, Escondido, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew John Farnsworth, Kidderminster, GB;

Vaibhav Singh, Birmingham, GB;

Muhammad Khaledul Islam, Ottawa, CA;

Ozgur Ekici, Escondido, CA (US);

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 76/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04W 76/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method at a user equipment for establishing a circuit switched call, the user equipment being in a Cell Forward Access CHannel (CELL_FACH) state, a Cell Paging CHannel (CELL_PCH) state or a UTRAN Registration Area Paging CHannel (URA_PCH) state, the method receiving an indication that a circuit switched call is pending; sending to a network element a message to facilitate the user equipment to transition to a Cell Dedicated CHannel (CELL_DCH) state, the message being one of a cell update message having a traffic volume indicator information element indicating that pending uplink data exceeds a threshold or an RRCConnectionRequest message; and establishing the circuit switched call.


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