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Method and apparatus for determining base station identity

US8825048B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

QUALCOMM Incorporated · US

Inventors

Insung Kang · San Diego, US
Qingxin Chen · San Diego, US
Shiau-He Tsai · San Diego, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 22, 2012
Grant date	Sep 2, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 22, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W48/14
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods for improving the time to acquire an identity of a base station by a mobile station, by relying on locally-unique attributes of the base stations instead of globally-unique attributes of the base stations, are presented. In some embodiments, data may be requested, the data may contain a globally unique attribute of a base station, a first locally unique attribute of the base station, and a second locally unique attribute of the base station. In some embodiments, data may be received in response to the request, the data may contain at least the first locally unique attribute and the second locally unique attribute. It may then be determined that the data did not contain the globally unique attribute, and an identity of the base station based at least in part on the first locally unique attribute and the second locally unique attribute may be acquired.

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