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Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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

Jose L. Hernandez, Overland Park, KS (US);

Ahmad N. Saleh, Overland Park, KS (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 80/04 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0022 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system to help manage latency and reduce unnecessary signaling in setup of fallback communications, such as circuit switched fallback calls for instance, by taking into account the load in various fallback coverage areas. When the load of a fallback coverage area is threshold high, signaling may pass to a serving network to cause that fallback coverage area to be filtered out of a list of fallback coverage areas that a base station of the serving network would provide to a served device, so as to help avoid having the device scan for coverage of that fallback coverage area.


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