Patent ID: 9596623
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, load information specifying a first load level associated with a first wireless frequency band provided by a base station of a wireless telecommunications network; receiving, by the computing device, an instruction to reduce utilization of the first wireless frequency band provided by the base station, the instruction specifying a second load level, the second load level being less than the first load level; determining, by the computing device, a manner in which to hand over one or more user devices, connected to the base station via the first wireless frequency band, to one or more other wireless frequency bands associated with the base station, the determining, for a particular user device of the one or more user devices, being based on: generating, by the computing device, one or more handover instructions based on the determined manner in which to hand over the one or more user devices, the one or more handover instructions indicating to which respective wireless frequency band, of the one or more wireless frequency bands, each user device, of the one or more user devices, should be handed over; and outputting, by the computing device, the one or more handover instructions to the base station.