The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 05, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2017
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Anass Benjebbour, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Tokyo, JP;
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A user terminal selects small cells in a radio communication system in which a macro cell and small cells are arranged to overlap each other. In the cell selection method of the present invention, a macro base station to form a macro cell carries out the steps of determining the offset value to use in cell selection in a user terminal based on transmission property information of a second carrier in the small cell, and reporting the offset value to the user terminal. Also, the user terminal carries out the steps of measuring the received quality of reference signals from the macro base station and the small base station, receiving the offset value that is reported from the macro base station, and carrying out cell selection based on the received quality that is measured and the offset value that is received.