公开(公告)号：US10123373B1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-06

申请号：US15649307

申请日：2017-07-13

Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.

Inventor： Ravindra Wasalwar ,  Hetal Mistry ,  Ankitkumar Patel ,  Nagi Mansour

IPC: H04W76/19 ,  H04W36/36 ,  H04W76/18 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W92/20 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: When a first base station is serving a wireless client device (WCD), the first base station provides the WCD with a copy of the WCD context information that the first base station maintains for serving the WCD. When the WCD then experiences a radio-link failure and connects with the second base station, the WCD will forward the provided WCD context information to the second base station, for use by the second base station as a basis to serve the WCD. This process of transferring the context information through the WCD from the old base station to the new base station could help to avoid the need for the second base station to engage in direct context-transfer signaling with the first base station, which could be especially useful in a scenario where the base stations are unable to engage in that direct transfer.