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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Prathima Agrawal, New Providence, NJ (US);
Dinesh K Anvekar, North Plainfield, NJ (US);
Balakrishnan Narendran, New Providence, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455 332 ; 455 561 ; 379 60 ;
Abstract
A method of prioritizing handoff requests in a cellular system is disclosed in which at least one handoff request for assignment of a communication channel is received from at least one mobile unit. A cutoff time for the handoff request is determined. The handoff requests are arranged in a priority queue based on the cutoff time associated with each handoff request. Available communication channels are assigned to the mobile units requesting handoff in the order of the queue.