Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Attachment, handover, and traffic offloading between 3GPP RANS and wi-fi RANS
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Application No.: US14416961Application Date: 2015-01-16
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Publication No.: US09674747B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Luay Zalzalah , Najeh Abu-Farha
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Coats and Bennett, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/IB2015/050352 WO 20150116
- International Announcement: WO2016/113601 WO 20160721
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W36/22 ; H04W28/10 ; H04W36/14 ; H04W28/16 ; H04W36/26 ; H04W48/18 ; H04W36/38 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W88/10

Abstract:
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method (150) is implemented by a base station (42, 700) that supports a 3GPP RAN (56) and has an associated Wi-Fi RAN (58) that is either supported by the base station (42, 700) or is supported by an access point (710) colocated with the base station (42, 700). The base station (42, 700) receives a request from a UE (54, 800). If the request is for a current Wi-Fi service capability of the base station (42, 700), the base station (42, 700) determines whether the Wi-Fi RAN has sufficient available resources to support QoS requirements of the UE (54, 800), and transmits a corresponding response to the UE (54, 800). If the response indicates that the Wi-Fi RAN (58) has sufficient available resources, the base station (42, 700) also transmits Wi-Fi credentials to the UE (54, 800) to enable the UE (54, 800) to access the Wi-Fi RAN (58). If sufficient available resources to support the QoS requirements are not available, Wi-Fi credentials are not sent to the UE (54, 800).
Public/Granted literature
- US20160212666A1 Attachment, Handover, and Traffic Offloading Between 3GPP RANS and Wi-Fi RANS Public/Granted day:2016-07-21
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