Patent ID: 9326193
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method in a base station subsystem, BSS, for managing local call local switch, LCLS, connections, where a user plane between a first user equipment and a second user equipment being served by the BSS is locally switched, the method comprising the steps of: when the first user equipment is to be handed over to a target BSS, receiving from a core network node a first LCLS-CONNECT-CONTROL message requesting transmission of uplink user plane data from the second user equipment to the first user equipment via both the locally switched user plane and a core network switched user plane; receiving from the core network node a second LCLS-CONNECT-CONTROL message indicating that user downlink data originating from the first user equipment is to be received from the core network switched user plane.