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

Claim 0:
1. A method for recovering bearers after a service interruption of a relay node, the method comprising:
receiving, at a relay gateway, an instruction to modify bearers from a mobility management entity (MME), the instruction identifying one or more bearers that were in use by the 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 the relay gateway, 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.