Patent ID: 9392501
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: acquiring, by a network node of a source cell, information that a handover of a plurality of user terminals currently connected to the source cell is needed to a target cell; determining at least one attribute with respect to each of the plurality of user terminals; selecting at least some of the plurality of user terminals to form a group of user terminals such that the user terminals in the group share at least one common attribute; and indicating the at least one common attribute of the group to a target node of the target cell in a group handover request message, wherein: a specific part of the handover process is performed with only a subset of the group, the subset represents the whole group in the specific part of the handover preparation, at least one parameter value related to the common attribute in the specific part of the handover process is determined and is to be applied in communication between the target cell and the subset, and the determined at least one parameter is considered as valid also for the rest of the user terminals in the group.