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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2016
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajeev Koodli, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hassan Sipra, San Jose, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for handover of communications between a plurality of radio user equipment and an egressing mobile base station to an ingressing mobile base station. The user equipment are terrestrially located within a geographical service zone (GSZ) having an ingress zone and an egress zone. When an egressing mobile base station enters an egress zone, it initiates a handover to a management node associated with the GSZ. The management node communicates with the ingressing mobile base station, which has entered the ingress zone, to accept the handover of the connections from the egressing base station. The handover is carried out without any disruption of user equipment communications. The management node can also communicate with a flight control node to control one or more flight parameters of the ingressing or egressing base station to facilitate smooth handover.