Patent ID: 11864258
Assignee: SPRINT SPECTRUM LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A processing node for recovering bearers after a service interruption of a relay node, the processing node being configured to perform operations comprising:
receiving an instruction to modify bearers from a mobility management entity (MME), the instruction identifying one or more bearers that were in use by a relay node prior to the service interruption, wherein the one or more bearers in the instruction from the MME comprise non-guaranteed-bit-rate (non-GBR) bearers;
identifying at least one additional bearer in use prior to the service interruption not identified in the instruction received from the MME by referring to a database comprising a list of bearers associated with the relay node; and
instructing the MME to create the at least one additional bearer, wherein the at least one additional bearer is GBR bearer that comprises a voice over long-term-evolution (VOLTE) bearer.