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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:
Feb. 24, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455437 ; 455444 ; 455525 ;
Abstract
A method for determining a handover for a mobile station in a multicellular communication system including the steps of measuring received signal parameters received from a serving cell and a plurality of neighboring cells, comparing received signal parameters with a variable threshold value for each of the plurality of neighbor cells, measuring the amount of time, or the number of times, the received signal parameters are above the threshold value for each of the plurality of neighbor cells, and determining handover based on the measurement.