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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2013
Applicants:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Cellco Partnershp, Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Derek Hongwei H. Bao, Concord, CA (US);

Patricia R. Chang, San Ramon, CA (US);

Steven R. Rados, Danville, CA (US);

Priscilla Lau, Fremont, CA (US);

Yee Sin Chan, San Jose, CA (US);

Maria G. Lam, Oakland, CA (US);

John F. Macias, Antelope, CA (US);

Thomas H. Tan, San Jose, CA (US);

Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);

David Chiang, Fremont, CA (US);

Thomas W. Haynes, San Ramon, CA (US);

Assignees:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 60/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 60/00 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network device may be configured to receive information regarding a location of a user device; compare the location of the user device to one or more coverage areas associated with each of one or more cells that are associated with a base station of a wireless telecommunications network; determine that the user device is within a particular coverage area of a particular cell, of the one or more cells; and instruct the user device, based on determining that the user device is within the particular coverage area of the particular cell, to connect to the particular cell.


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