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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2013
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Kouki Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Shinichi Sawada, Osaka, JP;
Tadashi Shimonabe, Osaka, JP;
Shigeto Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Mitsuru Sakamoto, Osaka, JP;
Yuhsuke Takagi, Osaka, JP;
Akio Yoshihara, Osaka, JP;
Shumpei Fuse, Osaka, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A wireless communication system allows a handover operation to a base station communicating through a plurality of frequency bands. The mobile terminal includes a communication unit adapted to perform communication with any of the base stations through a plurality of frequency bands. The communication unit of the base station notifies, when communication through a plurality of frequency bands is possible, a mobile terminal about information directed to identifying a main frequency band from relevant frequency bands in a manner allowing discrimination from one or more frequency bands other than the main frequency band. The communication unit of the mobile terminal determines that, upon receiving information directed to identifying a main frequency band from the second base station during having communication connection with the first base station, that the frequency band identified by the relevant information is a subject of handover towards the second base station.