Patent ID: 11889371
Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method for performing a hand-over of a terminal in a wireless environment, the method comprising:
receiving a handover request at a mobility management entity (MME) from an inflight communication terminal based on relocation of the terminal from a first base station served by a first serving gateway (SGW) among a plurality of SGWs and a first packet data network gateway (PGW) among a plurality of PGWs to a second base station served by a second SGW;
determining, at the MME, whether to conduct a handover from the first base station to the second base station along with execution of a PGW relocation from the first PGW to a second PGW;
directing the handover from the first base station to the second base station; and
responsive to determining to conduct the handover with execution of the PGW relocation, converging routing for the terminal via the second PGW while maintaining an IP address assigned to the terminal.