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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2008
Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ashvini G. Canjeevaram, Burlington, MA (US);
Deveshkumar Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ashvini G. Canjeevaram, Burlington, MA (US);
Deveshkumar Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and system is disclosed for optimizing handoff of access terminals. In particular, when (i) a given access terminal must switch from a first channel band in a first coverage area to a second channel band in order to hand off to a second coverage area, and (ii) there are no available identifiers to assign to the given access terminal to facilitate making the switch from the first channel band to the second channel band in the first coverage area prior to handing off to the second coverage area, an appropriate identifier is advantageously reassigned from another access terminal to the given access terminal. With the reassigned identifier, the given access terminal may then switch to the second channel band in the first coverage area prior to handing off to the second coverage area.