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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Andrei Dragos Radeluscu, San Diego, CA (US);
Vinay Chande, San Diego, CA (US);
Jen Mei Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Sanjiv Nanda, San Diego, CA (US);
Damanjit Singh, San Diego, CA (US);
Mehmet Yavuz, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are provided for causing active hand-in of a device from a macrocell base station to a femto node, which can be an inter-frequency hand-in. The femto node can broadcast a beacon over an operating frequency of the macrocell base station, and the macrocell base station, and/or one or more network components, can identify the femto node based on one or more parameters reported by the device from receiving the beacon. The beacon can be transmitted at varying powers to ensure active hand-in triggering, mitigate interference and/or can be powered on and off for such purposes. In addition, a macrocell base station can regulate compressed mode periods during which a device can measure the femto node based on receiving information regarding device proximity to the femto node, or a device can generate proximity indication messages base on measuring the beacon signals, etc.