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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2014
Applicant:
Odyssey Wireless, Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Inventor:
Peter D. Karabinis, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
Odyssey Wireless, Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 12/04 (2009.01); H04B 1/69 (2011.01); H04K 1/00 (2006.01); H04K 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 23/02 (2006.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 36/18 (2009.01); H04B 1/707 (2011.01); H04B 1/7097 (2011.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04W 48/02 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 25/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/04 (2013.01); H04B 1/69 (2013.01); H04B 1/707 (2013.01); H04B 1/7097 (2013.01); H04K 1/00 (2013.01); H04K 3/25 (2013.01); H04K 3/827 (2013.01); H04L 1/009 (2013.01); H04L 1/0043 (2013.01); H04L 1/0091 (2013.01); H04L 23/02 (2013.01); H04L 25/03834 (2013.01); H04L 25/03987 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/18 (2013.01); H04W 48/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01); H04B 2201/70715 (2013.01); H04K 2203/18 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 25/03866 (2013.01);
Abstract
A wireless network may comprise a plurality of base stations and a plurality of access points, such as femtocells, which may be installed in homes and/or offices, as deemed necessary to provide improved signal quality and increased data throughput while off-loading capacity from one or more near-by base stations. A user device may be configured to detect proximity to an access point and establish communications preferentially with the access point while refraining from communicating with a base station even though the user device is within a service region of the base station and can communicate with that base station.