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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2007
David Grandblaise, Paris, FR;
Remy Pintenet, Le Mesnil le Roi, FR;
David Grandblaise, Paris, FR;
Remy Pintenet, Le Mesnil le Roi, FR;
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A cellular communication system comprises a set of base stations () which transmit downlink resource exchange discovery messages to remote terminals in resource allocations of a Media Access Control, MAC, frame structure. The discovery messages may indicate that a base station has resource available for reallocation to another base station or that a base station is seeking resource to be allocated from another base station. A remote terminal () comprises a receiver () which receives a first message of the downlink resource exchange discovery messages from at least a first base station (). A discovery message transmit processor () generates a second message, which is an uplink resource exchange message comprising resource exchange data determined from the first message, and transmits this to a second base station (). The second base station () then initiates a temporary air interface resource reallocation with the first base station in response to receiving the second message.