Patent · US Expired

Protocol terminating method, control signal terminating server apparatus, and mobile communication system

US7142859B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 27, 2004
Grant dateNov 28, 2006
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Expiry dateDec 2, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W36/185
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a mobile communication network comprised of a plurality of switching devices and a plurality of base stations connected to the switching devices, while a mobile terminal to wirelessly communicate with the base stations is in a communication by a soft handover, a terminal endpoint of a protocol for control of the soft handover is relocated in changing a switching device to another as a branch/combining point of data on a communication route of the communication.

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