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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Simon Burley, Swindon, GB;
Assignee:
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method of forming a neighbor cell list in a base station of a cellular communications network comprises, at periodic intervals, and for specified durations: requesting the or each wireless device that is in connected mode with the base station to report a unique identifier for each other base station that it is able to detect; receiving reports from the or each wireless device that is in connected mode with the base station; and operating with a neighbor cell list compiled on the basis of the received reports.