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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2018
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Arvind Raghavan, Austin, TX (US);
Arunabha Ghosh, Austin, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A process, device and computer-readable storage medium that incorporate teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing a first instruction to mobile user equipment to cause the mobile user equipment to perform a first channel quality assessment of a non-reduced power subframe of a wireless signal comprising the non-reduced power subframe, an almost blank subframe and a reduced power subframe. A second instruction is provided to the mobile user equipment to cause the mobile user equipment to perform a second channel quality assessment of the almost blank subframe. A determination is made as to whether the mobile user equipment is performing instantaneous channel quality measurements based on a result of the first channel quality assessment and a result of the second channel quality assessment. Other embodiments are disclosed.