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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:
Dec. 20, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Suryanarayanan Ramamurthy, Olathe, KS (US);

Jay Douglas Cole, Overland Park, KS (US);

James J. Bae, Chantilly, VA (US);

Assignee:

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

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

Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for dynamically selecting a packet gateway based on LTE network loading. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a request to establish a data session for a wireless communication device through a non-LTE wireless network. The method further provides determining an amount of non-LTE active data sessions on the non-LTE wireless network and determining an amount of LTE active data sessions on an LTE wireless network. The method further provides selecting a packet gateway for the data session based on the amount of non-LTE active data sessions and the amount of LTE active data sessions.


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