Patent ID: 9538443
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: successfully completing a second handover of a user equipment from a second cell to a third cell of a cellular communications network, wherein a successful completion of a first handover of the user equipment from a first cell of the cellular communications network to the second cell has immediately preceded the second handover; determining the second handover as being a rapid handover at the second cell and/or the third cell based on a detection that the second handover of the user equipment has been initiated from the second cell to the third cell within a configurable period of time since the successful completion of the first handover; and reporting the rapid handover to the first cell using a specified handover report message comprising setting specified information elements identifying a failure cell and a re-establishment cell, which are renamed or whose semantics description is extended, to identify the second cell as the failure cell and the third cell as the re-establishment cell in the specified information elements in the specified handover report message.