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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2005
William E. Welnick, Poway, CA (US);
Dean E. Thorson, Grayslake, IL (US);
William E. Welnick, Poway, CA (US);
Dean E. Thorson, Grayslake, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method within a communication device () for preventing reporting of duplicate pilots within a communication system () is disclosed. The method includes communicating with one or more base stations (); monitoring and maintaining a pilot set (); allocating one or more pilots not found in the active set (), the candidate set (), or the neighbor set () to a remaining set () comprising one or more remaining set pilots; providing a remaining set window () around each remaining set pilot; and eliminating a remaining set pilot when the remaining set window () around the remaining set pilot overlaps any of the active, the candidate, or the neighbor set pilots.