Patent ID: 11963051
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A system for facilitating context aware handovers (HOs), the system comprising
a plurality of network access nodes (NANs) arranged to provide network connectivity in respective network coverage areas, each NAN of the plurality of NANs provides network connectivity according to at least one radio access technology (RAT);
one or more network repositories communicatively coupled with the plurality of NANs, the one or more network repositories arranged to store network information of individual NANs of the plurality of NANs, the network information indicating network parameters of the individual NANs; and
a client computing device to obtain network connectivity from at least one NAN of the plurality of NANs, the client computing device comprising:
processor circuitry communicatively coupled with one or more RAT interfaces, the processor circuitry arranged to:
operate a context inference model (CIM) to determine context information of the client computing device, and predict a target location of the client computing device at a predicted time instance based on the context information,
operate a network discovery service (NDS) to query for network information associated with the predicted target location,
operate a Reinforcement Learning Recommendation Model (RLRM) to determine a recommended target NAN of the plurality of NANs at the predicted target location based on the context information and the network information, and
operate a session layer entity to, in response to detection of an HO trigger event, initiate an HO from a source NAN of the plurality of NANs to the target NAN using a RAT interface of the one or more RAT interfaces associated with a RAT of the target NAN.