18486549. QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE-BASED USER HANDOFF POLICY (AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.)
QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE-BASED USER HANDOFF POLICY
Organization Name
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
Inventor(s)
Amit Kumar Sheoran of West Lafayette IN US
Yanbing Liu of West Lafayette IN US
Jia Wang of Basking Ridge NJ US
QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE-BASED USER HANDOFF POLICY
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18486549 titled 'QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE-BASED USER HANDOFF POLICY
Original Abstract Submitted
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a handover request from a user equipment (UE) device in a mobility network, wherein the handover request identifies a target cell for handing over radio communication with the UE device from a source cell, wherein the identifying is based on the handover request, determining a usage level of the UE device, wherein the usage level comprises one of performance-sensitive traffic and performance-tolerant traffic, selecting an alternative target cell for the handover request, wherein the selecting is responsive to determining a performance-sensitive traffic usage level of the UE device, and initiating a handover operation between the source cell and the alternative target cell. Other embodiments are disclosed.