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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 36/0022 (2013.01); H04W 36/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
Technology for switching from a wireless local area network (WLAN) to a wireless wide area network (WWAN) is disclosed. A multi-radio access technology (multi-RAT) user equipment (UE) can receive WLAN-specific dedicated physical random access channel (PRACH) allocation information from an evolved node B (eNB) to enable the multi-RAT UE to perform an inter-RAT WLAN-to-WWAN handover. The multi-RAT UE can initiate the inter-RAT WLAN-to-WWAN handover at the multi-RAT UE by performing random access with the eNB using the WLAN-specific dedicated PRACH allocation information.