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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:
Aug. 15, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Jasinder P. Singh, Olathe, KS (US);

Nagi A. Mansour, Arlington, VA (US);

Azza Hassan, Dunn Loring, VA (US);

Diego Estrella Chavez, Reston, VA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/10 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 16/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/10 (2013.01); H04W 28/0284 (2013.01); H04W 28/0289 (2013.01); H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04W 16/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are methods and systems for requesting a UE to forgo handover to a congested neighbor. In particular, a wireless communication system may serve the UE over an air interface connection between the UE and the first base station. While serving the UE, the wireless communication system may receive from the UE a handover request requesting a handover of the UE from the first base station to a second base station. In response to receiving from the UE the handover request, the wireless communication system may determine that the second base station is threshold congested, and, responsive to the determining, (i) deny the handover request and (ii) send to the UE a command for the UE to withhold transmission of further requests for handover of the UE from the first base station to the second base station.


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