Patent ID: 9681353
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. An electronic device comprising: processing circuitry configured to establish a first wireless communication channel with a user equipment (UE), determine whether a second communication channel of at least a predetermined quality exists between the UE and a non co-baseband base station (BS) while the first communication channel between the UE and the electronics device is maintained, wherein the first communication channel and the second communication channel use different carrier resources, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to receive from the non co-baseband BS at least one of an indication of which part of message traffic for the UE the non co-baseband BS is able to communicate, a preamble for random access, system information of a new carrier on which the UE communicates with the non co-baseband BS, and configuration information of control plane protocol for establishing communication between the UE and the non co-baseband BS, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to inform the UE on the first communication channel of a determination of adding the non co-baseband BS that the UE is to establish and maintain the second communication channel with the non co-baseband BS and maintain the first communication channel after the UE completing the establishment of the second communication channel with the non co-baseband BS.