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United States Patent 9,913,206
Somasundaram , et al. March 6, 2018

Method and apparatus for searching for closed subscriber group cells


Abstract

A method and apparatus for searching for closed subscriber group (CSG) cells are described. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits, to a network of CSG cells, a measurement/cell-search gap request message including a cause value having at least one bit that indicates whether the request message was transmitted due to a manual cell search command or a WTRU autonomous determination. The WTRU receives a measurement/cell-search gap allocation message from the network in response to the measurement/cell-search request message. The WTRU also may determine whether it has a discontinuous reception (DRX) gap that is long enough to read a master information block (MIB) and a system information block (SIB) of a neighboring CSG cell. If the DRX gap is not long enough, the WTRU may transmit a measurement/cell-search gap request message to the network, or autonomously tune away from a cell currently serving the WTRU to read the MIB and SIB.



Inventors:
Somasundaram; Shankar (Deer Park, NY), Mukherjee; Rajat P. (Stanford, CA), Sammour; Mohammed (Alrabieh, JO), Gauvreau; Jean-Louis (La Prairie, CA)

Applicant:


Name

City

State

Country

Type


Somasundaram; Shankar
Mukherjee; Rajat P.
Sammour; Mohammed
Gauvreau; Jean-Louis
Deer Park
Stanford
Alrabieh
La Prairie
NY
CA
N/A
N/A
US
US
JO
CA


Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC. (Wilmington, DE)


Family ID:
1000003157460

Appl. No.:
12/406,562

Filed:
March 18, 2009


Prior Publication Data






Document Identifier

Publication Date

US 20090239533 A1 Sep 24, 2009



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Application Number

Filing Date

Patent Number

Issue Date

61038598 Mar 21, 2008
61057544 May 30, 2008




Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 48/16 (20130101); H04J 11/0093 (20130101); H04W 84/045 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04W 4/00 (20090101); H04W 48/16 (20090101); H04J 11/00 (20060101); H04W 84/04 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;370/328

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