US 12,495,337 B2
Handover on the fly through automatic neighbor relations (ANR) neighbor discovery process
Norberto Amaya Gonzalez, Littleton, CO (US); and David Ricardo Bentolila Sapiani, Littleton, CO (US)
Assigned to DISH WIRELESS L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US)
Filed by DISH Wireless L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US)
Filed on Jan. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/097,714.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/419,616, filed on Oct. 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0147316 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/0061 (2013.01) [H04W 36/00835 (2018.08)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a computing device, comprising:
a first memory that stores first computer instructions; and
a first processor configured to execute the first computer instructions to:
receive a request to handover wireless communications for a user device from a first cell in a network to a second cell in the network, wherein the request includes a signal strength associated with the second cell;
determine whether the signal strength exceeds a threshold value;
in response to the signal strength exceeding the threshold value, query a relationship table of the first cell for a known handover relationship between the first cell and the second cell;
in response to a lack of the known handover relationship between the first cell and the second cell in the relationship table of the first cell:
instruct the user device to obtain a cell global identifier of the second cell;
receive the cell global identifier of second cell from the user device; and
add a new handover relationship between the first cell and the second cell to the relationship table using the cell global identifier of the second cell; and
handover the communications for the user device from the first cell to the second cell.