公开(公告)号：US10159086B1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-18

申请号：US15497064

申请日：2017-04-25

Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.

Inventor： Julio Costa ,  Jack B. Sippel, II

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W48/14 ,  H04W76/00 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W36/36 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W4/08 ,  H04W36/30

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for a UE to expedite handover through advanced obtaining and reporting of a network identifier. The UE could detect for possible handover a target cell that a target base station provides. In response to the detecting, the UE could determine that the target base station is of a particular class of base stations and, responsive to determining that the target base station is of the particular class, could determine and report the network identifier to a source base station serving the UE. In this way, if the source base station does not have a record of the network identifier, the source base station would not need to request the UE to determine and report that identifier, and could instead use the reported network identifier as basis to engage in handover signaling to process handover of the UE to the target cell, thereby expediting handover.