Patent ID: 11910346
Assignee: AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
obtaining a list of a plurality of cells, wherein the list relates each of the plurality of cells to a first cell that provides a first portion of a communication service to the processing system;
detecting a signal from a second cell, wherein the second cell is not included in the list;
based on the detecting, determining a first value for a first timing advance (TA) parameter of the second cell; and
based at least in part on the determining, obtaining, by the processing system, a second portion of the communication service from the first cell, the second cell, a third cell, or any combination thereof, wherein the third cell is included in the list, and wherein the second cell is blacklisted from or added to the list depending on a number of candidate cells that are determined to be available to facilitate communication services for the processing system, such that the second cell is blacklisted from the list if the number of candidate cells is greater than a certain amount.