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US 10,542,573 B2Granted
Radio aggregation
AssigneeNokia Solutions and Networks Oy
InventorsDaniela Laselva, Jeroen Wigard, István Zsolt Kovács
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Abstract
A technique comprising: transmitting one or more radio signals comprising information for use by a communication device camped in idle mode on a first node operating according to a first radio access technology or connected to said first node, which information comprises information facilitating the prioritisation at the communication device of initiating an association with a node operating according to a second radio access technology and having a capability of functioning as a slave node in a radio aggregation technique involving said first node as a master node, over initiating an association with a node operating to said second radio access technology without said aggregation capability.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a communication device, information from a base station operating according to a first radio access technology, wherein said information indicates a first set of one or more conditions for evaluating initiation of an association with a first node operating according to a second radio access technology and having a capability of functioning as a slave node in a radio aggregation technique operating under the radio resource control of the base station involving the base station as a master node, and a second set of one or more conditions for evaluating initiation of an association with a second node operating according to said second radio access technology without said aggregation capability;
- determining based at least partly on the received information, at the communication device camped in idle mode on the base station or already connected to the base station, to initiate a new connection with the base station and/or to initiate the association with the first node in the radio aggregation technique or to initiate the association with the second node without the aggregation capability;
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- initiating the new connection with the base station and/or the association with the first or the second node based on the determination.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a processor and memory including computer program code, wherein the memory and computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:
- receive information from a base station operating according to a first radio access technology, wherein said information indicates a first set of one or more conditions for evaluating initiation of an association with a first node operating according to a second radio access technology and having a capability of functioning as a slave node in a radio aggregation technique operating under the radio resource control of the base station involving the base station as a master node, and a second set of one or more conditions for evaluating initiation of an association with a second node operating according to said second radio access technology without said aggregation capability;
- determine based at least partly on the received information, at the apparatus camped in idle mode on the base station or already connected to the base station, to initiate a new connection with the base station and/or to initiate the association with the first node in the radio aggregation technique or to initiate the association with the second node without the aggregation capability;
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- initiate the new connection with the base station and/or the association with the first or the second node based on the determination.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a processor and memory including computer program code, wherein the memory and computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:
- receive information from a base station operating according to a first radio access technology, wherein said information indicates a first set of one or more conditions for evaluating initiation of an association with a first node operating according to a second radio access technology and having a capability of functioning as a slave node in a radio aggregation technique operating under the radio resource control of the base station involving the base station as a master node, and a second set of one or more conditions for evaluating initiation of an association with a second node operating according to said second radio access technology without said aggregation capability;
- determine based at least partly on the received information, at the apparatus camped in idle mode on the base station or already connected to the base station, whether to prioritize initiating the association with the first node in the radio aggregation technique over initiating the association with the second node without the aggregation capability;
- select a second radio access technology node with which to initiate an association based on the determination;
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- initiate the association with the selected second radio access technology node.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.