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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2013
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Suryanarayanan Ramamurthy, Olathe, KS (US);
Jay Douglas Cole, Overland Park, KS (US);
James J. Bae, Chantilly, VA (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
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.