Method for handing over a user equipment connected to a base station fro the base station to a femto access point

US8971890B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8971890-B2
Application numberUS-200913390827-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateAug 17, 2009
Priority dateAug 17, 2009
Publication dateMar 3, 2015
Grant dateMar 3, 2015

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A method is described for handing over a user equipment connected to a base station from the base station to a femto access point. The method includes initializing a handover from the base station to the femto access point, sending parameters indicating the femto access point from the user equipment to the base station, wherein the parameters include a physical ID parameter and a further parameter based on time measurements, identifying the femto access point by comparing the parameters sent from the user equipment to the base station with a list stored in the base station, wherein the list includes a physical ID parameter, a further parameter based on time measurements and a global ID for a plurality of femto access points, and handing over the user equipment to the identified femto access point. Also described is a base station, a user equipment and a system.

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The invention claimed is: 1. A method comprising: initializing a handover of a user equipment from a base station to a femto access point; requesting a global identifier of the femto access point from the user equipment; and in response to receiving at the base station, from the user equipment connected to the base station, parameters indicating the femto access point, wherein the parameters comprise a physical identifier parameter and a further parameter based on time measure…

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What does patent US8971890B2 cover?
A method is described for handing over a user equipment connected to a base station from the base station to a femto access point. The method includes initializing a handover from the base station to the femto access point, sending parameters indicating the femto access point from the user equipment to the base station, wherein the parameters include a physical ID parameter and a further parame…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Michel Juergen, Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04W36/0083. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Mar 03 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).