Patent ID: 11917480
Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A system comprising a computing device in communication with one or more switching centers associated with a wireless communication network, the computing device configured to:
identify a congested cell from a plurality of cells associated with the wireless communication network, wherein identifying the congested cell comprises identifying the congested cell based, at least in part, on a comparison of a first threshold capacity with a measure of unused capacity for each cell of the plurality of cells, wherein the comparison comprises a determination that the measure of unused capacity for a cell from the plurality of cells falls under the first threshold capacity;
identify a subset of neighboring cells for the congested cell, wherein each neighboring cell shares at least a portion of geographic coverage area with the congested cell and each neighboring cell meets or exceeds a threshold number of attempted or actual handovers with the congested cell, is within a threshold distance from the congested cell, and provides a same or similar bitrate, signal quality, and signal strength as the congested cell;
generating a ranking of the subset of neighboring cells based at least in part on a measure of unused capacity for each neighboring cell of the subset of neighboring cells;
select a target cell from the subset of neighboring cells for offloading traffic from the congested cell based, at least in part, on the ranking of the subset of neighboring cells and on a determination that the measure of unused capacity of the target cell exceeds a second threshold capacity; and
causing handover of active communication channel established by at least one telecommunication device from the congested cell to the target cell.