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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2011
Samir S. Soliman, San Diego, CA (US);
Soumya Das, San Diego, CA (US);
Nishith Chaubey, San Diego, CA (US);
Olufunmilola O. Awoniyi, San Diego, CA (US);
Samir S. Soliman, San Diego, CA (US);
Soumya Das, San Diego, CA (US);
Nishith Chaubey, San Diego, CA (US);
Olufunmilola O. Awoniyi, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for supporting macrocell-to-femtocell hand-ins of active macro communications for mobile access terminals. A femto-proxy system is provided including a femtocell and an out-of-band (OOB) proxy. While the femtocell may be addressed by the macro network according to a potentially non-unique identifier (e.g., its PN offset), the OOB proxy is addressable according to a unique OOB identifier (e.g., a Bluetooth device address, BD_ADDR). When the mobile access terminal is in proximity to the femto-proxy system, it detects the OOB proxy and communicates the unique OOB identifier to the core network via the macro network (e.g., as part of a measurement report). The OOB identifier is mapped (e.g., in the core network) to the femtocell, allowing the core network to uniquely identify the appropriate target femtocell for active hand-in.