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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2010
Chirag Sureshbhai Patel, San Diego, CA (US);
Mehmet Yavuz, San Diego, CA (US);
Vansh Pal Singh Makh, San Diego, CA (US);
Luca Blessent, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Farhad Meshkati, San Diego, CA (US);
Chirag Sureshbhai Patel, San Diego, CA (US);
Mehmet Yavuz, San Diego, CA (US);
Vansh Pal Singh Makh, San Diego, CA (US);
Luca Blessent, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Farhad Meshkati, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An access point (e.g., a femto cell) that is connected in an active call with an access terminal may cooperate with that access terminal or another access terminal to derive timing information from one or more neighboring access points (e.g., macro access points). In addition, an access point may cooperate with an idle access terminal to derive timing information from one or more neighboring access points. For example, an access terminal may determine the difference between pilot transmission timing or frame transmission timing of a femto cell and a macro cell, and report this timing difference to the femto cell. Based on this timing difference, the femto cell may adjust the timing and/or frequency of its transmissions so that these transmissions are synchronized in time and/or frequency as per network operation requirements.