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US 7,924,788 B2Granted
Access areas in a mobile system
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorIvan Ore
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Abstract
A method of managing access areas in a communication system is disclosed. In the method information regarding a detected access area is received from at least one mobile device, the detected access area being an access area that is not included in a set of available access areas. Potential of the detected access area is then predicted based on the information received from the at least one mobile device. A decision is then made, based on the predicted potential, if the detected access area can be included into the set of available access areas.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- receiving a handover message from at least one mobile device located in an area covered by the detected access area and an access area for which a set of available access areas is maintained, the detected access area being an access area that is not included in the set of available access areas;
- determining, based on at least the handover message, a size of an overlap between the detected access area and the access area for which the set of available access areas is maintained;
- predicting potential of the detected access area based on at least the handover message received from the at least one mobile device, wherein the predicted potential is determined based on the size of the overlap, wherein as the size increases, the predicted potential of the detected area increases a likelihood that the detected access area is added to the set of available access areas, wherein the predicting of the potential comprises weighting information included in the handover message, and wherein the information included in the handover message comprises a quantity of handover reports;
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- deciding, based on the predicted potential, whether to include the detected access area in the set of available access areas.
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An apparatus comprising:
- an interface configured to receive a handover message from at least one mobile device located in an area covered by the detected access area and an access area for which a set of available access areas is maintained, the detected access area being an access area that is not included in the set of available access areas;
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- a processor configured to
- determine, based on at least the handover message, a size of an overlap between the detected access area and the access area for which the set of available access areas is maintained,
- predict potential of the detected access area based on at least the handover message received from the at least one mobile device, wherein the predicted potential is determined based on the size of the overlap, wherein as the size increases, the predicted potential of the detected area increases a likelihood that the detected access area is added to the set of available access areas, wherein the predicting of the potential comprises weighting information included in the handover message, and wherein the information included in the handover message comprises a quantity of handover reports, and
- decide, based on the predicted potential, whether to include the detected access area in the set of available access areas.
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A non-transitory computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the computer program configured to provide a method comprising:
- receiving a handover message from at least one mobile device located in an area covered by the detected access area and an access area for which a set of available access areas is maintained, the detected access area being an access area that is not included in the set of available access areas;
- determining, based on at least the handover message, a size of an overlap between the detected access area and the access area for which the set of available access areas is maintained;
- predicting potential of the detected access area based on at least the handover message received from the at least one mobile device, wherein the predicted potential is determined based on the size of the overlap, wherein as the size increases, the predicted potential of the detected area increases a likelihood that the detected access area is added to the set of available access areas, wherein the predicting of the potential comprises weighting information included in the handover message, and wherein the information included in the handover message comprises a quantity of handover reports;
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- deciding, based on the predicted potential, whether to include the detected access area in the set of available access areas.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.