Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Redirecting handovers in LTE networks
-
Application No.: US14658996Application Date: 2015-03-16
-
Publication No.: US09363714B2Publication Date: 2016-06-07
- Inventor: Moshiur Rahman , Christopher Opara
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W24/04 ; H04W40/20 ; H04W40/36 ; H04W28/04

Abstract:
An architecture that can redirect communications upon detection of a handover failure in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is described. The architecture can obtain information indicative of a handover failure that is available in a first portion of the LTE network (e.g., a serving gateway) that has no control over the communication path. The architecture can utilize the information to instruct a second portion of the LTE network (e.g., a mobility management entity), one that can control the communication path but conventionally has no access to the handover information, to reroute the communication path to avoid unresponsive or failing network entities.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150189554A1 REDIRECTING HANDOVERS IN LTE NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2015-07-02
Information query