公开(公告)号：US10609708B1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US15634511

申请日：2017-06-27

Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.

Inventor： Rajveen Narendran ,  Ravi Kallepalli ,  Ryan P. Dreiling ,  Christopher Bailey

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A method and system to help control transmission over an air interface from a base station to a served WCD. When the base station has a threshold small quantity of data to transmit over the air to a WCD, the base station will schedule the transmission to occur in a downlink PRB of a special subframe, rather than in a PRB of a regular downlink subframe. As the downlink PRB of the special subframe likely has fewer useable resource elements than the PRB of the regular downlink subframe, this process could help to minimize waste of air interface resources resulting from not making use of resource elements in an allocated PRB.

公开(公告)号：US11102684B1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-24

申请号：US15929221

申请日：2020-02-10

Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.

Inventor： John E. Belser ,  Paul M. Andreas ,  Bryce A. Jones ,  Christopher Bailey

IPC: H04W68/02 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W36/32

Abstract: A method and system for blindly triggering handover based on past failures to trigger handover of beamforming-served devices. A computing system identifies a geolocation area where wireless communication devices (WCDs) that are served with beamforming by a first access node tend to experience radio link failure after having reported to the first access node being within threshold weak coverage of the first access node and threshold strong coverage of a second access node. And, based on the identifying, the computing system then blindly triggers handover of a given WCD from the first access node to the second access node in response to determining that the given WCD is served with beamforming by the first access node while positioned in the identified geolocation area.