MUMBAI, India, June 19 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411087118 A) filed by Rakuten Symphony, Inc. on November 12, 2024, for Switching User Bearer Context To An Active G-Nodeb (gnb)- Centralized Unit Control Plane (cuup) Instance.
Inventors include Reddy, Prabhakara Ramesh; and Antonyraj, Santhiyaku Jeevakumar.
The application for the patent was published on June 05, 2026, under issue no. 23/2026.
Abstract: A method for switching user bearer context to an active gNB-CUUP instance is disclosed. The method includes receiving an indication indicating a failure of a current CUUP associated with the CUCP. The method comprises determining a list of plurality of users associated with the current CUUP and an associated priority order. The method comprises selecting at least one active CUUP associated with the CUCP. The method comprises determining a load status of the active CUUP based on associated user instances. The method includes performing one of: performing an intra-cell handover process to switch a user bearer context from the current CUUP to the active CUUP based on the corresponding priority order when the load status is below a predefined threshold, or pre-empting one or more user instances associated with the active CUUP when the load status is above the predefined threshold, and performing the intra-cell handover process to switch a first set of users to the active CUUP based on the corresponding priority orders.
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