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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2020
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Samirkumar Patel, Middlesex, NJ (US);
Xin Wang, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Paul R. Mcdonough, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Andrew E. Youtz, Princeton, NJ (US);
Lily Zhu, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Arda Aksu, Lafayette, CA (US);
Balaji L. Raghavachari, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Siegfried Erhard Eichinger, West Chester, PA (US);
Christopher M. Schmidt, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Jignesh S. Panchal, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method comprising attaching, by a fixed wireless access device, to a Fourth Generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) base station, causing, by the fixed wireless access device, the 4G LTE base station to add a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) base station as a secondary base station for the fixed wireless access device, scanning, by the fixed wireless access device, for 5G wireless signals associated with the 5G NR base station and generating, by the fixed wireless access device, an indication of signal strength for the 5G wireless signals associated with the 5G NR base station.