Identifying hand-over targets in lightly coordinated networks
AssigneeAirvana, Inc.
InventorsAndrew Richardson, Jindong Hou
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Abstract
In general, a method performed on a portable access terminal operating in an active mode includes detecting a presence of a personal base station. An encoded identification message transmitted from the personal base station is received, and the encoded identification message includes a unique identifier associated with the personal base station. The encoded identification message is decoded to extract the unique identifier, and the unique identifier is transmitted to a source network entity.
Claims26
A method performed on a portable access terminal operating in an active mode, the method comprising:
- detecting a presence of a personal base station;
- receiving an encoded identification message transmitted from the personal base station over a channel status indicator channel, the encoded identification message comprising a unique identifier associated with the personal base station and the encoded identification message being configured to be detectable by the portable access terminal within a single compressed mode gap;
- decoding the encoded identification message to extract the unique identifier;
- and
- transmitting the unique identifier to a source network entity;
- wherein the encoded identification message is decoded from a plurality of eight bit status indicator portions of the channel status indicator channel;
- wherein the plurality of eight bit status indicator portions are grouped into a home node B identification channel frame.
A method comprising:
- detecting, by a portable access terminal, a presence of a personal base station;
- receiving, by a portable access terminal, an encoded identification message transmitted from the personal base station over a channel status indicator channel, the encoded identification message comprising a unique identifier associated with the personal base station and the encoded identification message being configured to be detectable by the portable access terminal within a single compressed mode gap;
- decoding the encoded identification message on the portable access terminal to extract the unique identifier;
- and
- transmitting the unique identifier to a source network entity, the source network entity determining whether to hand-over a session to the personal base station based on one or more predetermined factors;
- wherein the encoded identification message is decoded from a plurality of eight bit status indicator portions of the channel status indicator channel;
- wherein the plurality of eight bit status indicator portions are grouped into a home node B identification channel frame.
A system comprising:
- a personal base station;
- a source network entity;
- and
- a portable access terminal in an active mode, the portable access terminal to:
- detect a presence of the personal base station
- receive an encoded identification message transmitted from the personal base station over a channel status indicator channel, the encoded identification message comprising a unique identifier associated with the personal base station and the encoded identification message being configured to be detectable by the portable access terminal within a single compressed mode gap;
- decode the encoded identification message to extract the unique identifier;
- and
- transmit the unique identifier to the source network entity;
- wherein the encoded identification message is decoded from a plurality of eight bit status indicator portions of the channel status indicator channel;
- wherein the plurality of eight bit status indicator portions are grouped into a home node B identification channel frame.
A non-transitory computer program product, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium, for executing instructions on a processor, the computer program product being operable to cause a portable access terminal operating in an active mode to:
- detect a presence of a personal base station;
- receive an encoded identification message transmitted from the personal base station over a channel status indicator channel, the encoded identification message comprising a unique identifier associated with the personal base station and the encoded identification message being configured to be detectable by the portable access terminal within a single compressed mode gap;
- decode the encoded identification message to extract the unique identifier;
- and
- transmit the unique identifier to a source network entity;
- wherein the encoded identification message is decoded from a plurality of eight bit status indicator portions of the channel status indicator channel;
- wherein the plurality of eight bit status indicator portions are grouped into a home node B identification channel frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.