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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2011
Olufunmilola O. Awoniyi, San Diego, CA (US);
Samir S. Soliman, San Diego, CA (US);
Soumya Das, San Diego, CA (US);
Andrei D. Radulescu, San Diego, CA (US);
Olufunmilola O. Awoniyi, San Diego, CA (US);
Samir S. Soliman, San Diego, CA (US);
Soumya Das, San Diego, CA (US);
Andrei D. Radulescu, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for supporting macrocell-to-femtocell hand-ins of active macrocell communications for a mobile device. A mobile device may perform an out-of-band (OOB) search for the femtocell, the OOB search triggered by a proximity detection configuration command from the macrocell. The mobile device may wirelessly communicate with a located femtocell via an OOB link, and receive femtocell information from the femtocell via the OOB link. The mobile device may transmit the received femtocell information to the macrocell. The macrocell may generate instruction for a mobile device search based on the femtocell information. The macrocell may transmit such instructions to the mobile device for an in-band search for the femtocell.