Patent ID: 9578557
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of signalling a handover of a user equipment in a mobile network, the method comprising: starting a timer by a target base station of the mobile network in response to the handover of the user equipment from a source base station to the target base station; before the expiry of the timer but after setting up a connection between the user equipment and the target base station, receiving, by the target base station, downlink control plane data from a control node via the source base station; and sending, based on the expiry of the timer and by the target base station node, control signalling, comprising a path switch request, to the control node for initiating switching transmission of data between a gateway and the user equipment from a first data path which connects the source base station and the gateway to a second data path which connects the target base station and the gateway.