Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Facilitating mobile device-assisted mobility enhancement to improve user plane interruption time
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Application No.: US16669498Application Date: 2019-10-30
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Publication No.: US10750507B2Publication Date: 2020-08-18
- Inventor: Milap Majmundar , Thomas Novlan
- 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: H04W36/06
- IPC: H04W36/06 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W74/08 ; H04W84/04 ; H04B17/318 ; H04W12/04

Abstract:
Mobile device-assisted mobility enhancement is provided. In one example, a method comprises: determining, by a mobile device that was communicatively coupled to a defined network via a first distribution unit (DU) of DUs, that a connection between the mobile device and a base station device, via a first beam, in a network fails to satisfy a defined condition; selecting a second beam associated with a second DU and to which to connect; and transmitting, via the second beam, to the defined network, a radio link interruption message comprising re-assignment information to facilitate re-assignment of the mobile device to the second beam from the first beam, wherein the transmitting is performed via a mobile device identification message of a random access procedure and wherein the transmitting is performed based on the first DU being determined to be different from the second DU.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200068550A1 FACILITATING MOBILE DEVICE-ASSISTED MOBILITY ENHANCEMENT TO IMPROVE USER PLANE INTERRUPTION TIME Public/Granted day:2020-02-27
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