Patent ID: 8570979

Claim:
A device comprising: a controller configured to handover a connection associated with a user equipment (UE) from a first radio access network (RAN) to a second RAN due to a loss of connectivity at the first RAN; a first network element in communication with the first RAN, and a second network element in communication with the second RAN, the first network element and the second network element having respective logical functionalities of at least one of: a mobility management element, a user plane element, a serving gateway, a packet data network gateway, or another core network element; and at least one of the first network element and the second network element having a logical connection to at least one of: a home subscriber server, or an authentication, authorization and accounting server; and the first network element configured to support inter-RAT/inter-network redundancy functionality by: receiving at least one radio resource utilization report from a plurality of RANs with which the first network element is in communication; and passing the report to the controller, wherein the controller is an inter RAT/inter-network redundancy controller (IRC).