US 12,069,528 B2
Telecommunications network bearer allocation and deallocation
Kun Lu, Bellevue, WA (US); Boris Antsev, Bothell, WA (US); Terri L. Brooks, Prosper, TX (US); Egil Gronstad, Encinitas, CA (US); John Humbert, Roeland Park, KS (US); Alan Denis MacDonald, Bellevue, WA (US); Salvador Mendoza, Issaquah, WA (US); Scott Francis Migaldi, Cary, IL (US); Gary Jones, Montgomery, TX (US); Christopher H. Joul, Bellevue, WA (US); Jun Liu, Issaquah, WA (US); Ming Shan Kwok, Seattle, WA (US); Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Renton, WA (US); and Neng-Tsann Ueng, Bellevue, WA (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed by T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/397,758.
Application 17/397,758 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/047,131, filed on Jul. 27, 2018, granted, now 11,089,527.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/710,402, filed on Feb. 16, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/618,534, filed on Jan. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046505 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/14 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 36/0027 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. At least one computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computer, configure the computer to perform acts comprising:
receiving an indication of a handover of a terminal from a first access network to a second access network, the computer associated with the second access network, wherein:
the first access network supports a first number of bearers for the terminal;
the second access network supports a second number of bearers for the terminal; and
the second number of bearers is less than the first number of bearers; and
determining that the terminal has allocated a set of bearers comprising more bearers than the second number of bearers;
selecting a first bearer of the set of bearers based on:
respective bearer IDs of the bearers in the set of bearers; and
a predetermined comparison function that, given two bearer IDs determines which of two respective bearers corresponding to the two bearer IDs should be terminated before the other; and
terminating at least one session being carried by the first bearer.