US 12,075,293 B2
Handover control in a wireless user equipment (UE)
Anurag Thantharate, Kansas City, MO (US); Sougata Saha, Olathe, KS (US); Sreekar Marupaduga, Overland Park, KS (US); and Hannah Jo Sifuentes, Lee's Summit, MO (US)
Assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed by T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/470,991.
Application 18/470,991 is a continuation of application No. 17/723,264, filed on Apr. 18, 2022, granted, now 11,805,452.
Application 17/723,264 is a continuation of application No. 17/153,308, filed on Jan. 20, 2021, granted, now 11,375,417, issued on Jun. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0015614 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 36/0072 (2013.01) [H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 36/0058 (2018.08); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 36/13 (2023.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method to serve a wireless User Equipment (UE) over wireless network slices using different handover types, the method comprising:
selecting one of the wireless network slices for the wireless UE;
identifying one of the different handover types for the wireless UE based on the selected one of the wireless network slices;
serving the wireless UE over the selected one of the wireless network slices; and
wirelessly handing-over the wireless UE from a source wireless access node to a target wireless access node using the identified one of the different handover types.