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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2013
Sprint Spectrum Lp, Overland Park, KS (US);
Nagi Mansour, Arlington, VA (US);
Emerino J. Marchetti, Clifton, VA (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a communication system includes communicating a traffic channel information stream with a wireless device using a first air-interface scheme while communicating control channel information with the wireless device using the first air-interface scheme. The control channel information is communicated with the wireless device using the first air-interface scheme is used to handover the wireless device from the first air-interface scheme to a second air-interface scheme. After the handover of the wireless device from the first air-interface scheme to the second air-interface scheme, the traffic channel information stream is communicated with the wireless device using the second air-interface scheme while still communicating control channel information with the wireless device using the first air-interface scheme.