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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2008
Tomas Nylander, Värmdö, SE;
Thomas Lindqvist, Mölndal, SE;
Jari Vikberg, Järna, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for allocating service area identifiers (SAI) for a femto cell (A) upon the femto cell (A) being created. According to the method, information is received about detected cells obtained by scanning performed by a femto radio base station (A) that is serving the femto cell (A) in addition to information identifying the femto base station (A) or the femto cell (A); a request for SAIs, is transmitted to a SAI selection entity () based on the received information, and SAIs selected by a selection entity () are received together with an associated user type. The identifiers are further allocated for the created femto cell (A). The present invention also relates to an apparatus () and to the selection entity ().