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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:
Jan. 09, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2001
Applicants:
Shinichi Baba, Morristown, NJ (US);
Tadahiko Maeda, Summit, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Shinichi Baba, Morristown, NJ (US);
Tadahiko Maeda, Summit, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Toshiba America Research, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/30 (2006.01); H04Q 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a system and method for autonomously setting up a base station. The new base station monitors signals from other base stations to determine how it relates to the other base stations. Next, the base station forms and transmits a list of other base stations with suggested handoff rankings to other base stations. Embodiments include source assisted soft handoff including the source base station requesting and forwarding information to mobile stations being handed off to a target base station.