Communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9237497-B2
Application number	US-201113818086-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 2, 2011
Priority date	Nov 4, 2010
Publication date	Jan 12, 2016
Grant date	Jan 12, 2016

Abstract

A communication system is described in which a mobile device is able to transfer from a home base station operating in a hybrid or closed, CSG, access modes to a target home base station operating in a hybrid or CSG access mode. A novel handover procedure is described in which the core network is informed of the access mode of the target home base station using a path switch request in the handover procedure.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A base station for communicating with a plurality of mobile devices and a core network, the base station operating according to an associated closed subscriber group (CSG) access mode and comprising:
a closed subscriber group management module configured to store a CSG identifier of the base station;
a connection management module configured to communicate with the core network in pursuit of an X2 based handover process comprising: transferring a co…

Assignees

• Jha Vivek
• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Jha Vivek

Classifications

• H04W8/186

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/04

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W84/045

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W48/04 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W8/02

  Electricity · mapped topic