Patent ID: 11937134
Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A wireless communication network to wirelessly serve Multiple Radio Access Technology User Equipment (multi-RAT UE), the wireless communication network comprising:
a multi-RAT wireless access node configured to wirelessly transfer network information indicating available Radio Access Technology (RAT) types;
the multi-RAT wireless access node configured to wirelessly receive attachment signaling from the multi-RAT UE indicating UE-selected ones of the available RAT types and responsively transfer request signaling to network control circuitry indicating the UE-selected ones of the available RAT types;
the network control circuitry configured to process the request signaling and select a wireless network slice ID for the multi-RAT UE and select network-selected ones of the UE-selected ones of the available RAT types based on the wireless network slice ID;
the network control circuitry configured to responsively transfer response signaling to the multi-RAT wireless access node indicating the network-selected ones of the RAT types for the UE;
the multi-RAT wireless access node configured to receive the response signaling and responsively wirelessly transfer connection signaling to the multi-RAT UE the indicating the network-selected ones of the RAT types to use over multiple wireless connections; and
the multi-RAT wireless access node configured to simultaneously exchange user data over the multiple wireless connections using the network-selected ones of the RAT types.