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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. 27, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul S Meche, Richardson, TX (US);
Donald V Hanley, McKinney, TX (US);
Larry D Chrisman, Plano, TX (US);
Michael J McCarthy, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455 332 ; 455 561 ;
Abstract
A mobile-assisted handoff technique for a cellular mobile communications system. A mobile makes measurements of adjacent base stations and reports the measurements to the serving base station. The measurements are adjusted to predict signal measurements that the adjacent base stations would make of the mobile. A full set of adjusted measurements, or a combined set of adjusted measurements and true measurements, made by those base stations with locate receivers, may be used in determining the best cell to hand-off the mobile to.