US 12,477,406 B2Granted

UE mobility across super-cells

AssigneeParallel Wireless, Inc.

InventorsAnoop Gupta, Kartik Shashikant Raval

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for a 3G gateway. In a first embodiment, a method is disclosed for a network, comprising: receiving a first relocation request message at a home nodeB gateway (HNBGW), the HNBGW coupled to an operator core network, the first relocation request message including a target super cell identifier and a user equipment (UE) identifier; sending a second relocation request message from the HNBGW to a coordinating node, the coordinating node identifier being the target super cell identifier; querying a lookup table at the coordinating node using the UE identifier to determine a target cell identifier; replacing, in the second relocation request message, the target super cell identifier with the target cell identifier to create a third relocation request message; and sending the third relocation request message to a target cell identified by the target cell identifier.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving a first relocation request message at a home eNodeB gateway (HeNBGW), the HeNBGW coupled to an operator core network, the first relocation request message includes a target super cell identifier and a user equipment (UE) identifier;
and
sending a second relocation request message including the UE identifier from the HeNBGW to a coordinating node, the coordinating node identifier being the target super cell identifier;
wherein the coordinating node queries a lookup table using the UE identifier to determine a target cell identifier;
wherein the coordinating node replaces, in the second relocation request message, the target super cell identifier with the target cell identifier to create a third relocation request message;
wherein the coordinating node sends the third relocation request message to a target cell identified by the target cell identifier,
wherein cells are clustered, virtualized, and represented as a logical super cell at the HeNBGW;
and
wherein the logical super cell is configured to allow cells connected to the logical super cell to remain hidden from the HeNBGW.

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Facts

Application: 18/325,784Filed 30 May 2023 · continuation
Priority: 3 Feb 2017
Published: US 2023/0300684 A121 Sep 2023
Granted: 18 Nov 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04W 36/0016
For data sessions of end-to-end connection: hand-off preparation specially adapted for end-to-end data sessions
H04L 61/3015
Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames: name registration, generation or assignment
H04W 8/02
Network data management: processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location…
H04W 24/02
Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements: arrangements for optimising operational condition

Family

Application62/454,633Us provisional application · filed 3 Feb 2017
Application15/889,202Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Feb 2018
US 2023/0300684 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Sep 2023
US 11,665,597 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0160337 A1Published application
US 12,477,406 B2This patent

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