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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sassan Ahmadi, Portland, OR (US);
Shahrnaz Azizi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 16/32 (2009.01); H04W 36/24 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 16/32 (2013.01); H04W 36/24 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for discovery and association, by a mobile station, of a femto base station from a plurality of base stations. The mobile station may select a base station for consideration for association by decoding a physical layer identifier to determine that the base station is a macro base station and select a different base station based on other considerations. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.