Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Attachment, handover, and traffic offloading between 3GPP RANS and Wi-Fi RANS
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Application No.: US15486633Application Date: 2017-04-13
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Publication No.: US10206152B2Publication Date: 2019-02-12
- Inventor: Luay Zalzalah , Najeh Abu-Farha
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04W36/14
- IPC: H04W36/14 ; H04W36/22 ; H04W28/16 ; H04W36/38 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W36/26 ; H04W48/18 ; H04W88/10

Abstract:
A source base station supports a 3GPP radio access network (RAN). The source base station determines that a data session between a user equipment (UE) and a Wi-Fi RAN associated with the source base station needs to be handed over. Based on the determining, the base station transmits a request to a target base station that supports a 3GPP RAN to determine a current Wi-Fi service capability of the target base station, and receives a response that indicates the current Wi-Fi service capability. The source base station transmits a handover request to the UE, based on the response, requesting that the UE handover the data session to one of: the 3GPP RAN of the target base station; or a Wi-Fi RAN associated with of the target base station. A UE and/or target base station may have similar and/or corresponding features.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170223591A1 Attachment, Handover, and Traffic Offloading Between 3GPP RANS and Wi-Fi RANS Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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