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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:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nokia Mobile Phones Limited, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ;
Abstract
A mobile station (,) can request (,) idle time from a network (,) e.g. for measuring the strengths of signals from base stations. Having received the request the network checks (,) whether suitable idle time is coming up and if not, allocates (,) idle time according to the request by the mobile station. Finally, the network informs (,) the mobile station about when and how much the mobile station has measurement time available.