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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2014
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Muralidhar Malreddy, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ryan S. Talley, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
In a communication system comprising a first base station of a plurality of base stations, a computing system may identify one or more other base stations of the plurality based on whether each of the one or more other base stations sits as a node on the same local area network (LAN) as the first base station, and perhaps based on other considerations, such as whether each of the one or more other base stations is geographically located near the first base station and whether each operates with a whitelist. The computing system may then cause the first base station to wirelessly transmit, to at least one user equipment device (UE) served by the first base station, a specification of the identified one or more base stations to enable the at least one UE to search for coverage of at least one of the specified one or more base stations.