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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
May. 30, 1995
Daniel Richard Tayloe, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Victor Hawes Cutler, Jr, Mesa, AZ (US);
Gerald Joseph Davieau, Eldersburg, MD (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A cellular communication system (10) requests from subscriber units (30) to volunteer for handoff when a call resource shortage is about to occur. The subscriber units (30) may volunteer to handoff to another cell (24) depending on whether any adjacent or neighbor cell (24) provides adequate signal strength for servicing the on-going call. If there is another adjacent or neighbor cell (24) which provides adequate signal strength, the subscriber unit (30) can volunteer for handoff to the other cell. The cellular communication system (10) may accept the volunteer handoff request, whereby the subscriber unit (30) volunteering for handoff is handed-off to the other cell (24). However, the cellular communication system (10) may deny the handoff request. If the handoff request is denied, the subscriber unit (30) may have to drop the call or try to locate another cell to handoff its call before a predetermined amount of time expires.