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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. 01, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2008
Applicants:
Jialin Zou, Randolph, NJ (US);
David Rossetti, Randolph, NJ (US);
Christopher Francis Mooney, Essex, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Jialin Zou, Randolph, NJ (US);
David Rossetti, Randolph, NJ (US);
Christopher Francis Mooney, Essex, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04E 4/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the access terminal (AT) receives a switching ratio, the AT randomly generates a serving priority value from a uniformly distributed random variable, and the AT determines whether to switch from the first carrier and attach to one of the neighboring carriers based on the serving priority value and the switching ratio.