Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network-instructed handover from WLAN to another radio access network
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Application No.: US14246841Application Date: 2014-04-07
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Publication No.: US09756533B2Publication Date: 2017-09-05
- Inventor: Filip Mestanov , Tomas Hedberg , Stephen Rayment , Dinand Roeland , Magnus Stattin , Jari Vikberg
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: unknown Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: unknown Stockholm
- Agency: Withrow & Terranova, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W36/38 ; H04W36/14

Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a network-instructed handover of a wireless device from a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to a Radio Access Network (RAN) of another Radio Access Technology (RAT), e.g., a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) or 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) RAT. In one embodiment, a WLAN access node determines that a handover of a wireless device from the WLAN to another RAN of a different RAT is to be performed and transmits a handover instruction to the wireless device that instructs the wireless device to perform a handover from the WLAN to a RAN of a different RAT. In this manner, the WLAN access node is able to steer the wireless device from the WLAN to a RAN of a different RAT.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140307707A1 NETWORK-INSTRUCTED HANDOVER FROM WLAN TO ANOTHER RADIO ACCESS NETWORK Public/Granted day:2014-10-16
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