Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Communication connection control procedure for supporting and conducting handover
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Application No.: US16976825Application Date: 2018-03-05
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Publication No.: US11265780B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Guillaume Decarreau , Irina-Mihaela Balan
- Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/055245 WO 20180305
- International Announcement: WO2019/170210 WO 20190912
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W36/08 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
An apparatus for use by a communication element or function configured to communicate in a communication network comprising a plurality of communications cells, the apparatus comprising at least one processing circuitry, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processing circuitry, cause the apparatus at least: to execute a handover procedure for changing a communication connection from a source cell currently serving the communication element or function to a target cell; to determine beam information indicating a communication beam of the source cell serving the communication element or function at the time when the handover procedure is executed; and to cause sending the beam information to a communication network control element or function to which the communication element is connected after the handover procedure is ended.
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