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US 2011/0216738 A1Published application
Method and System for Mobile Station Acquisition
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorPhillip Barber
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Abstract
A system and method for mobile station acquisition are presented. A preferred embodiment comprises a control message that contains additional information than would be found in a neighbor advertisement MAC management message. This control message contains enough information to allow the mobile station to locate, synchronize, and acquire service from a separate base station for a handoff process.
Claims20
A method for wirelessly transmitting data, the method comprising:
- transmitting a neighbor advertisement MAC management message from a first base station, the neighbor advertisement MAC management message comprising a first set of information;
- and
- transmitting a control message from the first base station, the control message comprising a second set of information in addition to the first set of information, the second set of information comprising information on a second base station.
A method for wirelessly transmitting data, the method comprising:
- receiving a neighbor advertisement MAC management message at a mobile station;
- and
- receiving a control message at the mobile station, the control message comprising handoff information in addition to the information included in the neighbor advertisement MAC management message.
A wireless base station comprising:
- a processor configured to prepare a neighbor advertisement MAC management message and a control message, the control message comprising handoff information that is not included in the neighbor advertisement MAC management message;
- and
- a transmitter configured to receive the control message and transmit the control message.
A wireless mobile station comprising:
- a receiver configured to receive a neighbor advertisement MAC management message and a control message, wherein the neighbor advertisement MAC management message comprises a first set of information, wherein the control message comprises a second set of information, and wherein the second set of information comprises handoff information different from the first set of information;
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- a transmitter configured to transmit a handoff request in response to receiving the control message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.