Patent Document ID: 10015681
Application ID: 14804016
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining if a user equipment (UE) should be handed over from a first base station to a second base station in a mesh network, comprising: receiving a signal from the UE at a first multi-radio access technology (multi-RAT) node, wherein the signal contains information sufficient to indicate that the UE is within range of the first multi-RAT node; obtaining heuristic information from the UE, wherein said heuristic information includes a signal strength measurement for either the first multi-RAT node or a second multi-RAT node, the second multi-RAT node being coupled to the first multi-RAT node via the mesh network; sending the heuristic information to a self-organizing network (SON) processing node as a gateway in a data path between the first multi-RAT node and an operator core network; creating, at the SON processing node, a position profile for the UE based on the heuristic information; transmitting a message reflecting the position profile to the first multi-RAT node via the mesh network; and performing a handover of the UE from the first multi-RAT node to the second multi-RAT node.