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Wireless local area network (WLAN) traffic offloading

US9706522B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel IP Corporation · US

Inventors

Kamran Etemad · Potomac, US
Joey Chou · Scottsdale, US
Alexander Sirotkin · Nahf, IL

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 25, 2013
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 13, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02D30/70
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Technology for communicating access point (AP) information for traffic offloading is disclosed. A request may be received, at a wireless local area network (WLAN) domain manager (DM) from an evolved node B (eNB), for access point (AP) information about one or more WLAN access points (APs) for traffic offloading. The access point (AP) information may be obtained for the one or more WLAN APs, at the WLAN DM, based on at least in part operations and management (OAM) reports from the one or more WLAN APs containing the AP information. The AP information may be communicated, from the WLAN DM to the eNB via a network manager (NM), about the one or more WLAN APs to enable traffic offloading from the eNB to at least one of the WLAN APs.

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