Patent ID: 9681344
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of data transfer during handover of a wireless communication device (WCD) from a source base station to a target base station, the method comprising: during the handover, making a determination that the target base station is a relay base station with a wireless backhaul connection to the source base station, wherein the source base station has downlink data for transmission to the WCD buffered during the handover; and in response to making the determination, the source base station refraining from transmitting at least one portion of the buffered data to the target base station, wherein making the determination comprises: accessing a neighbor list of neighboring base stations of the source base station, the neighbor list including indications of which neighboring base stations are relay base stations; and determining that the target base station is on the neighbor list with an indication that the target base station is a relay base station.