Patent ID: 9408118
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining an infrastructure equipment for handover in a wireless telecommunication network, the method comprising: receiving a handover request from a telecommunication device; identifying a source base transceiver station class associated with source infrastructure equipment based on a base transceiver station class identifier, the source infrastructure equipment corresponding to an existing communication channel with the telecommunication device; identifying at least one target infrastructure equipment available for handover of the telecommunication device; identifying a base transceiver station class associated with the at least one available target infrastructure equipment, each of the at least one available target infrastructure equipment having a base transceiver station class identifier, wherein each base transceiver station class identifier has a weighted value based, at least in part, on a geographic coverage area associated with the base transceiver station class; determining a movement speed of the telecommunication device; based on a determination that the movement speed of the telecommunication device exceeds a movement speed threshold, adjusting the weighted values of the base transceiver station class identifiers based, at least in part, on the movement speed of the telecommunications device; and processing the handover request based, at least in part, on the adjusted weighted values associated with the base transceiver station class identifiers of the source infrastructure equipment and the at least one available target infrastructure equipment.