Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Managing user equipment roaming status changes in a radio access network
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Application No.: US16475565Application Date: 2017-01-23
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Publication No.: US11323922B2Publication Date: 2022-05-03
- Inventor: Jerker Zetterlund , Afshin Abtin , Andreas Anulf , Jan Dahl , Magnus Hallenstål , Ralf Keller , Håkan Österlund
- 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: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/051301 WO 20170123
- International Announcement: WO2018/133949 WO 20180726
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W36/14

Abstract:
When a user equipment is roaming in a visited network, mid-call handover from VoWiFi to VoLTE is controlled by policies enforced in the user equipment and the home network. An inter-operator policy and a subscription policy are stored in the home network and a user equipment policy is stored in the user equipment. The roaming user equipment registers in a visited network. Later, when mid-call handover to VoLTE on the visited network is desired, and also permitted by its user equipment policy, the user equipment sends a request containing a call-specific identifier which the responsible network entity in the home network compares with the registered handover parameter having regard to the inter-operator and subscription policies. If compliance with the policies is found, then the mid-call handover is proceeded with.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210136633A1 MANAGING USER EQUIPMENT ROAMING STATUS CHANGES IN A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK Public/Granted day:2021-05-06
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