Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Proximity detection for femtocells using out-of-band links
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Application No.: US13222972Application Date: 2011-08-31
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Publication No.: US09781659B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Olufunmilola O. Awoniyi , Samir S. Soliman , Soumya Das , Andrei D. Radulescu
- Applicant: Olufunmilola O. Awoniyi , Samir S. Soliman , Soumya Das , Andrei D. Radulescu
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W48/16 ; H04W36/04 ; H04W84/04

Abstract:
Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for supporting macrocell-to-femtocell hand-ins of active macrocell communications for a mobile device. A mobile device may perform an out-of-band (OOB) search for the femtocell, the OOB search triggered by a proximity detection configuration command from the macrocell. The mobile device may wirelessly communicate with a located femtocell via an OOB link, and receive femtocell information from the femtocell via the OOB link. The mobile device may transmit the received femtocell information to the macrocell. The macrocell may generate instruction for a mobile device search based on the femtocell information. The macrocell may transmit such instructions to the mobile device for an in-band search for the femtocell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120094663A1 PROXIMITY DETECTION FOR FEMTOCELLS USING OUT-OF-BAND LINKS Public/Granted day:2012-04-19
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