US 11,722,944 B2
Handover schemes for millimeter wave (MMW) wireless communications
Jung Ho Ryu, Fort Lee, NJ (US); Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US); Karl Georg Hampel, Hoboken, NJ (US); Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Littleton, MA (US); Sundar Subramanian, San Diego, CA (US); Jianghong Luo, Skillman, NJ (US); Juergen Cezanne, Ocean Township, NJ (US); and Vasanthan Raghavan, West Windsor Township, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/453,762.
Application 17/453,762 is a division of application No. 16/189,457, filed on Nov. 13, 2018, granted, now 11,191,001.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/589,340, filed on Nov. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0060960 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 36/36 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/24 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/32 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 36/0055 (2013.01); H04W 36/36 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 36/0005 (2013.01); H04W 36/0058 (2018.08); H04W 36/245 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications, comprising:
receiving, at a second network device and from a first network device, a handover configuration for a millimeter wave (mmW) user equipment (UE), the handover configuration identifying a beam associated with the second network device and a handover time by which the mmW UE intends to attempt to communicate with the second network device via the beam;
determining a connection configuration for the mmW UE based at least in part on the handover configuration, the connection configuration including an allocation of resources to be used by the mmW UE for handover to the second network device; and
performing handover of the mmW UE from the first network device to the second network device based at least in part on the connection configuration.