Patent ID: 9462510
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A circuit switched fallback (CSFB) handover method, comprising; receiving, by a base station, CSFB indication indicating that user equipment is handed over from an Long Term Evolution (LTE) cell to a 2G/3G cell to perform a circuit switched (CS) service, wherein a site of a base station serving the LTE cell is the same as a site of a base station serving the 2G/3G cell; sending, by the base station after receiving the CSFB indication, a measurement control message to the user equipment, wherein the measurement control message is used to instruct the user equipment to measure cell signal quality and send a corresponding event measurement report; and according to a receiving status of the event measurement report sent by the user equipment, selecting, by the base station, to complete CSFB handover by using blind handover, or to complete CSFB handover by using measurement-based handover; wherein: sending the measurement control message to the user equipment comprises: selecting, by the base station, to complete CSFB handover by using blind handover, or to complete CSFB handover by using measurement-based handover comprises: