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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2008
Helen Jun Xing, San Diego, CA (US);
Muhammad Khawar R. Khan, Chula Vista, CA (US);
Rami H. Alnatsheh, San Diego, CA (US);
Ramesh Chandra Chirala, San Diego, CA (US);
Supratik Bhattacharjee, San Diego, CA (US);
Helen Jun Xing, San Diego, CA (US);
Muhammad Khawar R. Khan, Chula Vista, CA (US);
Rami H. Alnatsheh, San Diego, CA (US);
Ramesh Chandra Chirala, San Diego, CA (US);
Supratik Bhattacharjee, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for maintaining information during neighbor list updates comprising acquiring information of a first plurality of GSM neighbor cells; recording and keeping the information for a time period T; receiving a second plurality of GSM neighbor cells; comparing the second plurality of GSM neighbor cells with the first plurality of GSM cells in the record; if a GSM neighbor cell from the second plurality of GSM neighbor cells is not in the record, gathering information pertaining to the GSM neighbor cell; and if at least one GSM neighbor cell from the second plurality of GSM neighbor cells is in the record, determining if the age of the information pertaining to the at least one GSM neighbor cell is less than the time period T and if less than T, locating the at least one GSM neighbor cell.