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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2015
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Daniel Frank Artuso, Concord, CA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
In a cellular telecommunication system having multiple cells and respectively associated base stations, a user equipment (UE) is paged by sending a paging request to the base station that most recently communicated with the UE. This base station pages the UE and upon failing to receive a response forwards the paging request to its the base stations of neighboring cells Each of these base stations pages the UE and upon failing to receive a response similarly forwards the paging request to further base stations of neighboring cells. This process is repeated to repeatedly expand the paging area until the UE is located or until a forwarding limit has been reached.