US 11,838,772 B2
Base station report
Richard Mackenzie, London (GB); Keith Briggs, London (GB); Salvador Diaz Sendra, London (GB); and Michael Fitch, London (GB)
Assigned to British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London (GB)
Appl. No. 17/309,281
Filed by BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
PCT Filed Jul. 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/069718
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/098985, PCT Pub. Date May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18206575 (EP), filed on Nov. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0409978 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/04 (2013.01) [H04W 36/00835 (2018.08); H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a cellular telecommunications network, the method comprising:
a reconfiguration control system identifies a network conflict and determines that a first cell of a first base station is to be rebooted in order to change its operating parameters to resolve the network conflict; and, in response,
a handover management system performs a handover of a User Equipment from the first cell to a second cell of the first base station before the first cell reboots;
wherein if the reconfiguration control system determines that two cells of the first base station are to reboot, each cell having at least one user equipment attached, it identifies one of the cells' reboot operation to be prioritized,
if the non-prioritized cell is capable of supporting at least part of a service currently operating on the first cell at the same time as any services it is already handling, the handover management system performs a handover of the user equipment attached to the prioritized cell to the non-prioritized cell,
the reconfiguration control system reboots the prioritized cell,
the handover management system causes the user equipment that was initially attached to the prioritized cell and the user equipment initially attached to the non-prioritized cell to be handed over from the non-prioritized cell to the rebooted prioritized cell,
the reconfiguration control system reboots the non-prioritized cell, and
the handover management system causes the user equipment that was initially attached to the non-prioritized cell to be handed over from the prioritized cell to the rebooted non-prioritized cell.