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US 2013/0210436 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for topology management for handovers in heterogeneous networks
AssigneeSpiderCloud Wireless, Inc.
InventorsMurari Srinivasan, Brett Schein, Amit Butala
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Abstract
A method comprises receiving a relocation required message for a user equipment from a source Radio Access Network (RAN); multicasting a relocation request to multiple local RANs; receiving a first relocation acknowledgement from a first local RAN of the multiple local RANs to which a user equipment may be handed into; and forwarding the first relocation acknowledgement to the source RAN.
Claims22
A method, comprising:
- receiving a relocation required message for a user equipment from a source Radio Access Network (RAN);
- multicasting a relocation request to multiple local RANs;
- receiving a first relocation acknowledgement from a first local RAN of the multiple local RANs to which a user equipment may be handed into;
- and
- forwarding the first relocation acknowledgement to the source RAN.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
- receiving a relocation required message for a user equipment from a source Radio Access Network (RAN);
- multicasting a relocation request to multiple local RANs;
- receiving a first relocation acknowledgement from a first local RAN of the multiple local RANs to which a user equipment may be handed into;
- and
- forwarding the first relocation acknowledgement to the source RAN.
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A computer program product, embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising:
- computer code for receiving a relocation request for a user equipment;
- computer code for multicasting the relocation request to multiple local Radio Access Networks (RANs);
- computer code for receiving a first relocation acknowledgement from a first local RAN of the multiple local RANs to which a user equipment may be handed into;
- and
- computer code for forwarding the first relocation acknowledgement to a core network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.