Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Active macro-femto hand-in with help from out-of-band proxy
- Patent Title (中): 在带外代理的帮助下,主动微距手机
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Application No.: US13087760Application Date: 2011-04-15
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Publication No.: US08838117B2Publication Date: 2014-09-16
- Inventor: Samir S. Soliman , Soumya Das , Nishith Chaubey , Olufunmilola O. Awoniyi
- Applicant: Samir S. Soliman , Soumya Das , Nishith Chaubey , Olufunmilola O. Awoniyi
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agent Jeffrey D. Jacobs
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W4/00 ; H04W40/00 ; H04L12/28 ; H04W36/04 ; H04W84/18 ; H04W24/10 ; H04W36/08 ; H04W8/26 ; H04W84/04 ; H04W8/00

Abstract:
Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for supporting macrocell-to-femtocell hand-ins of active macro communications for mobile access terminals. A femto-proxy system is provided including a femtocell and an out-of-band (OOB) proxy. While the femtocell may be addressed by the macro network according to a potentially non-unique identifier (e.g., its PN offset), the OOB proxy is addressable according to a unique OOB identifier (e.g., a Bluetooth device address, BD_ADDR). When the mobile access terminal is in proximity to the femto-proxy system, it detects the OOB proxy and communicates the unique OOB identifier to the core network via the macro network (e.g., as part of a measurement report). The OOB identifier is mapped (e.g., in the core network) to the femtocell, allowing the core network to uniquely identify the appropriate target femtocell for active hand-in.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110263258A1 ACTIVE MACRO-FEMTO HAND-IN WITH HELP FROM OUT-OF-BAND PROXY Public/Granted day:2011-10-27
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