Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network-instructed handover from WLAN to another radio access network
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Application No.: US15650616Application Date: 2017-07-14
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Publication No.: US10321364B2Publication Date: 2019-06-11
- Inventor: Filip Mestanov , Tomas Hedberg , Stephen Rayment , Dinand Roeland , Magnus Stattin , Jari Vikberg
- 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: 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
- US20170318506A1 NETWORK-INSTRUCTED HANDOVER FROM WLAN TO ANOTHER RADIO ACCESS NETWORK Public/Granted day:2017-11-02
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