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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Ovelrand Park, KS (US);
Muralidhar Malreddy, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ryan S. Talley, Overland Park, KS (US);
Julio C. Costa, Tampa, FL (US);
Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas, Brambleton, VA (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method for configuring a first base station to use a coverage area identifier is described. For instance, a computing system may determine that coverage provided by the first base station overlaps with coverage provided by a second base station. Further, of a plurality of third base stations that also provide coverage overlapping the coverage provided by the second base station, the computing system may identify one or more third base stations having an extent of handover with the determined second base station that is below a threshold extent of handover. The computing system may then select, as the coverage area identifier to be assigned to the first base station, a coverage area identifier that is also assigned to a particular one of the one or more identified third base stations. The computing system may configure the first base station to use the selected coverage area identifier.