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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:
Nov. 14, 2017

Filed:

May. 12, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Raymond Emilio Reeves, Oviedo, FL (US);

Gary Duane Koller, Overland Park, KS (US);

Deveshkumar Narendrapratap Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/66 (2006.01); H04M 1/68 (2006.01); H04M 3/16 (2006.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04W 76/02 (2013.01); H04W 76/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for preventing release of a wireless traffic channel before update process completion. In a particular embodiment, a method provides establishing a wireless traffic channel between the wireless communication device and a wireless access point of a wireless communication network. The method further provides identifying an event that triggers release of the wireless traffic channel by the wireless communication device and, upon identifying the event, preventing the release of the wireless traffic channel until a background update process that uses the wireless traffic channel is completed. Upon completion of the background update process, the method provides allowing the release of the wireless traffic channel.


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