Patent ID: 9526043
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A soft handover method, comprising: receiving, by a home access gateway, a soft handover request sent by a home access node, wherein the soft handover request comprises user plane information of the home access node and an identifier of a radio network controller (RNC); establishing, by the home access gateway according to the identifier of the RNC, a signaling connection mapping between the home access node and the RNC, and forwarding the soft handover request to the RNC based on forwarding connection resource information allocated to the RNC, wherein the forwarding connection resource information comprises first information pointing to the home access gateway; receiving, by the home access gateway, a soft handover response returned by the RNC according to the soft handover request, wherein the soft handover response comprises connection resource information of the RNC; and establishing, by the home access gateway, a user plane connection mapping between the home access node and the RNC according to (a) the user plane information of the home access node, (b) the forwarding connection resource information, (c) forwarding user plane information allocated to the home access node, and (d) the connection resource information of the RNC, and forwarding the soft handover response to the home access node based on the forwarding user plane information, wherein the forwarding user plane information comprises second information pointing to the home access gateway.