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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2010
Siddharth Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Srikanth Pulugurta, Overland Park, KS (US);
Maulik Shah, Overland Park, KS (US);
Siddharth Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);
Srikanth Pulugurta, Overland Park, KS (US);
Maulik Shah, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Exemplary methods and systems may be used by a mobile station to request that a sector be removed from its active set, and by a radio access network (RAN) to facilitate such a request. An exemplary method involves (a) a mobile station receiving a congestion indicator in each active sector of an active set of the mobile station, wherein the congestion indicators are received from a RAN; (b) the mobile station using the received congestion indicators as a basis for selecting at least one high-congestion sector from the active set; and (c) the mobile station providing an indication of the at least one high-congestion sector to the RAN. Further, the mobile station may perform steps (b)-(c) in response to a determination that the battery power for the mobile station is below the threshold level.