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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2009
Yonggang Fang, San Diego, CA (US);
Rajesh Bhalla, Gahanna, OH (US);
Wenfeng Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaowu Zhao, Shenzhen, CN;
Yonggang Fang, San Diego, CA (US);
Rajesh Bhalla, Gahanna, OH (US);
Wenfeng Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaowu Zhao, Shenzhen, CN;
ZTE (USA) Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for handling femto-cell hand-in requests can include operating a macro-cell base station to provide wireless service to wireless devices in a geographical coverage area; receiving, from a wireless device, a message indicative of the wireless device's reception of a base station radio signal, the message including a base station identifier; controlling multiple femto-cell base stations that are assigned to the base station identifier to communicate with the wireless device and to report a reception of a radio signal from the wireless device; and transferring the wireless device from the macro-cell base station to a femto-cell base station of the multiple femto-cell base stations that reports a reception of the radio signal from the wireless device. The multiple femto-cell base stations can provide wireless service in different nonadjacent portions of the geographical coverage area.