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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:
May. 12, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 19, 2014
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jafar Mohseni, San Diego, CA (US);

Divaydeep Sikri, Farnborough, GB;

Farrukh Rashid, Farnborough, GB;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0238 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 52/0225 (2013.01);
Abstract

Access terminals are adapted to blacklist one or more neighboring cells from acquisition attempts. For instance, an access terminal may receive a transmission including a list of neighboring cells to be monitored while connected to a particular serving cell. The access terminal may determine that a predefined number of consecutive acquisition attempts with a particular neighboring cell have failed. In response to failure of the predefined number of consecutive acquisition attempts, the access terminal can blacklist the neighboring cell from subsequent acquisition attempts for a predefined blacklisting period. Following the duration of the blacklisting period, the access terminal may conduct a subsequent acquisition attempt with the neighboring cell. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.


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