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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2021
At&t Technical Services Company, Inc., Vienna, VA (US);
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Daniel Vivanco, Ashburn, VA (US);
David Beppler, Duluth, GA (US);
Slawomir Stawiarski, Carpentersville, IL (US);
AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc., Vienna, VA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
An enhanced automatic neighbor relation ('ANR') function can estimate a plurality of terrestrial cells within a coverage area of an aerial cell. The enhanced ANR function can monitor an exchange of a serving cell unique identifier sent to a target cell and a target cell unique identifier sent to a serving cell. The enhanced ANR function can determine a serving cell type and a target cell type, wherein the serving cell type and the target cell type identify the serving cell and the target cell, respectively, as either a terrestrial cell type or an aerial cell type. The enhanced ANR function can then determine whether a serving cell neighbor relation table (“NRT”) associated with the serving cell, a target cell NRT associated with the target cell, or both would be compromised if a corresponding NR is added into the serving cell NRT and the target cell NRT.